Hello, backers! 

Vocurro is shaping up to be an incredible journey for your players, whether they’re a group of mages, knights, and rogues, or a crew of pilots, space rangers, and medics. We’d like to take an opportunity to share some design snippets from Monte Cook himself, and a testimonial from one of the players in his fantasy playtest.

So recently, I learned about remipedes. These are eyeless crustaceans that look like colorless, segmented centipedes. Each segment has a pair of legs, like a centipede, but they're like little flippers because these things live underwater. In caves. Not only do they have sophisticated mandibles, but their head has six strong, arm-like appendages for holding prey while the mandibles bite, over and over. To top it all off, they can also inject a powerful neurotoxin. Of course, in the real world they are only a few centimeters long. But in a fantasy world, a giant remipede might be more like 5 feet long. 

Moral of the story? If you're exploring the natural limestone caves that are a part of the megadungeon, stay out of the water. Or maybe don't, because there's something really important in the submerged cave below them for all the adventurer/cave-divers out there. 

—Monte 

(Nothing to worry about, right? Right?!?)

Kate, one of the internal players in Monte’s playtest, had a few tidbits to share as well. 

“Our Jewel in the Sky playtest as a fantasy party really does playtest the megadungeon itself—from noting that we needed an idea of how much it costs to stay in the definitely-not-haunted-tavern, to whether we use Effort on each or just one roll to make the undead run away before we had to. (Even if we are incapable of rolling above a 10, and are essentially clown shoes when it comes to in-character decisions)!" 

—Kate, aka Sparks, an Intuitive Dragonfolk Cleric who Blazes with Fire 

We can’t wait to share more details about the dungeons as they come to life! 

Thanks for your support!
 —Team MCG