I cannot believe my eyes, and it’s not even ten million fireflies (nor is it butter???)
My fellow Murkans,
I leave you all alone for 9 measly hours and you complete two more stretch goals. You can’t be trusted. And now I will have to punish all of you (with rewards)
We have now unlocked:
85k: Printed One-shot
90k: More Art Version 3 (Which is the last one I swear)
Okay here we go formal stretch goal update time let’s go here we go okay here we go heeere we go yep let’s go here we --
Printed One-shot, Monsters of Murka: Hometown Heroes
I know I kind of talked about it a lot in the last update, but I want to restate some of that, because there are 500 of you and I know not everyone has time to read every single update even though I pour my BLOOD and SWEAT and TEARS and HEART and SOUL into every single WORD I WRITE. Haha, I'm just kidding. Unless... 👀
We livestreamed a playthrough of the Hometown Heroes one-shot here on Backerkit. You can watch it here!
For me, the most interesting part of this adventure’s design is how customizable it is. With VERY little set-up, you’ll be able to tailor a villain SPECIFICALLY designed to antagonize your party, which will make it all the more satisfying when they beat the living shit out of them. Also, your players (temporarily) get their hands on a Legendary magic item, so even though they’ll only be 3rd level, they’ll get a taste of power and immediately thirst for more. You know, like little politicians.
Anyway, here’s the synopsis of the adventure:
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!
More Art (The Final Reckoning)
This is the last stretch goal tier we had planned for adding art to the books, which means we have reached maximum artitude. It’s all ov-art now. Art’s well that ends well. Art thou glad I didn’t say banana? I forgot what I was saying.
Next Stretch Goal: Minis Series 3
At the next stretch goal, we’ll be adding yet another mini series to the campaign. I got some great recommendations on the last update, someone suggested we do some PC/subclass minis, and I think that’s FABULOUS. Here’s a short list of some of the options we’re considering between Series 1 and 2, to get your ideas flowing:
Sir Valence
Draguns
Guillaume Fierre
The Walrog
The Poultryoshka
Das Kapital
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Tasting Beast
The Magnum Bull
Jay Krowling
Jo Ro’gaan
Throw some other ideas in the comments for things you’d like to see, we wanna make them all! :)
