OKAY YES HELLO GOOD MORNING WE UNLOCKED THREE MORE STRETCH GOALS WHILE I WAS SLEEPING BUT I--
*trips*
-- I’M HERE NOW SO I CAN UHHHH DO THE POST NOW OKAY HERE WE GO
My fellow Murkans,
Well y’all were BUSY BEES last night, it would seem.
We have now unlocked:
70k: Minis, Series 2
75k: Murka Soundtrack
80k: Painted Edges
Get strapped in and let’s talk about 'em.
Minis, Series 2
We’ve had some great suggestions for minis on Series 1, including Draguns, the Walrog, and some of our other boss monsters like Das Kapital. Loving these suggestions, keep them coming! I want to make sure whatever minis we design, they’re the ones you guys want. Maybe we should do a poll?
Also, we just revealed MINIS SERIES 3 on our Murkan Roadtrip for stretch goals, so, like... if we keep this up... I’m really gonna need those suggestions from you guys.
Our 3D artist, Hermz, is kicking a bunch of ass on designing these minis so far, so whatever we wind up with, trust that it’s gonna be AMAZING.
Murka Soundtrack
Listen this is the coolest shit ever. So we have had the pleasure of working with Reed Reimer of Fable Factory on a number of our projects, including our sci-fi horror RPG, Cthulhu Dreamt, as well as previous Murka campaigns. For Murka, he once created the Jester’s Jingle Medley, which is (in my humble opinion) the greatest testament to the horrors of capitalism since people started making those spin-off Monopoly games.
So now, Reed will be working with us on a full bardcore/fantasy soundtrack. You can probably safely expect some cursed covers and magnificent medleys. We’re open to your suggestions on this one! Reed’s engine is already revving for this one.
Painted Edges
I teased what this looks like in our last post but I’m just so damn excited that I’m gonna shout it from the rooftops (and in text, that looks like bolding it). Our Deluxe books will now have painted edges, and that’s SO RAD. Each deluxe book will have its edges painted to thematically match the color palette of the book as well as its contents. These deluxe books are probably gonna be the coolest ones in your collection, ESPECIALLY since they’ll be collected together in that box set as well. You simply are not ready for how rad this will be.
asdasfafasdafs look how pretty
Next Stretch Goal: Printed One-shot
At the next stretch goal, we’ll be able to offer our Monsters of Murka: Hometown Heroes one shot adventure in print form! We actually had the pleasure of running this one-shot a few weeks ago (time is an illusion so that may not be precisely accurate), and we livestreamed it here on Backerkit.
A group of adventurers are enjoying the amenities of their hometown when their ONE day off is quite rudely interrupted by a villain who has set their sights on taking over the town. The group will need to work together to uncover the villain’s plans, make a quick pit stop at their local library for a powerful arcane tome, and then put a stop to the machiavellian machinations and become the heroes their hometown needs—and hopefully the ones it deserves.
Hometown Heroes serves as a perfect introductory adventure for low-level players to get a sense for what Murka is, and provides tools for a GM to handcraft a villain for the party, as well as bring their real-world hometown—including some of its most notable characters, locales, and features—into the world of Murka.
The adventure will be available to everyone digitally for free, and we’re still figuring out what print costs will be for something like this. If we can keep costs low, we’d love to include it for our physical backers, but we need to make sure it’s a cost we can sustain first (being a tiny team in Columbus where all of us are also working full-time jobs to pay bills is hard) We’ll keep you posted on what we come up with!
