Whew, we haven't talked to you guys since last year. Which would be funny if we had reached out at the end of December, but it's actually been since November. TIME FLIES.
We appreciate your patience as we've been really putting our nose to the grindstone, and I'm happy to inform you all that we're in the final stretches of the final book, and we'll have a fun preview for you soon!
You're beautiful, every single one of you.
Community Vote is OPEN!
We have received some AMAZING suggestions so far, and now it's time for YOU to decide (come on jaron don't make the epic rap battles of history voice)! Community Addition Polls are open until 11:59 PM EST on January 23rd. You've got roughly two weeks for your voice to be heard and to steer which ideas will for sure be going into the book!
We received over a hundred suggestions, and we loved every single one. Some of them we couldn't do because they didn't fit into our current books, and some ideas we had already done! We took anything that we felt feasible and compiled them into three polls:
The number 1 suggestion from each poll will 100% go in the book, and if we have time, we'll start looking at other suggestions on the list and squeezing them in, because we wanna pack these books chock full of whatever we can fit in. We want them EXPLODING with new content!
You might also notice that many of the video game themed suggestions don't appear in the polls. Our Discord fans might already know this, but we've had a lot of ideas for a full-on video game themed Murka book for a few years. So, if your suggestion was in that thematic area, don't fret—it very well may still wind up in a Murka book. ;)
Please enjoy this Loan Sharklone (legally distinct from a sharknado, mind you), which was a community-suggested addition we loved from last year!
Latest Editing Update
We're finalizing Chromatic Gamut, which is our last book in the list! This book has definitely doubled in size, perhaps more. We've got new tycoons, tons of new boss monsters, and we can confidently state that this book has the most player options out of anything we've ever published. It's straight-up massive, and massively not straight!
Here's a quick preview of some of the stuff we've been working on just in the last two week (some for Chromatic Gamut, some last-minute additions to other books):
Ratman
Rufus Murdog
The Grizzly of Glass Street
The Shadow Sleuth subclass
Finger Gun cantrip
The Magnamalus Mag-Rail System
All I can say is, I've never been so proud of the people I'm working with and the things we've accomplished. We went hard in the editing paint throughout all of December (hell, I even edited on my birthday last week!) not because we're some kind of gross crunch-fueled grindset mindset team, but because we just have so much fun creating this stuff for you. Every time we sit down to write or edit, we make each other laugh, we're awestricken by the serendipity of some of the ideas that come together, and we end most nights telling one another that we love each other, and that we love working together, and that we love these books.
We think you will, too.
Closing Remarks
Please enjoy a photo of our dog somehow sleeping through our very loud editing sessions in her co-pilot chair.
We're in the final stretch. Thanks for sticking with us and for being patient—we're confident you won't regret it, and that when you get your hands on these books, you're gonna laugh your ass off. If you do, please seek medical help immediately.
Don't forget to vote in those polls, okay? Backerkit only lets me attach one at a time, so we've attached the monster poll, but you gotta go vote in the other polls too. Links below.
