I wanted to share some other new Murka content that we're adding to the book! If you're a member of our Discord, you've already seen this, but if you aren't (and why the hell aren't you?), then this will be fresh for you! 

The full new text for both the new Portable Hole Foods location, and the new Critical Roll item, are at the bottom of this document for folks who follow the Backerkit campaign. Hope you enjoy!

First up is something extremely near and dear to my heart: Portable Hole Foods. Some of you may know that this was one of the very first concepts we had conceived of when we began our journey writing Monsters of Murka: Restaurants & Retail back in 2020. The writing process to create that book was so much fun that Portable Hole Foods sort of got lost in the mix, fell out of the book, and was accidentally kicked under the refrigerator. Brad and I have dusted it off, and we're cramming it back into the book in the Garnished Gardens section of Flavor City.

Getting to finally include this in the book is a personal victory for me, and I hope you all hate love it.

Honestly, I can't believe this joke didn't make its way into Restaurants & Retail the first time around. But also I can, because the book is massive, and there was already so much funny shit thrown around from all the writers. What can we say—it's hard to hold all these limes.

This is a new common magic item for all you gamblers out there, chock full of references to the well-known actual play from Matthew Mercer and company. Mechanically simple, but mightily chaotic, and delicious to boot.

Also, this item doesn't yet have one of our "out of 5 stars" style reviews yet, so if you have fun ideas for that, feel free to drop them in this comment section!

Scroll down just a bit more to see both Portable Hole Foods and the Critical Roll item.

I'm so excited about this one. The artificer that we made for Arcana Americana (back when it was just called "Murka," before anybody had imagined a second or third book) was one of my personal favorite concepts: An artificer who can channel the minds of America's famed inventors, adding those consciousnesses to their own. It's an awesome opportunity to do what Murka does best: be entertaining, fun, and also educational, showing off some of America's unsung heroes of the mind.

I still love that concept, but when we reviewed it for the update, we recognized a lot of opportunities for improvement: we wanted to lighten the self-inflicted damage they took, as it was too punishing, and we felt like the other subclass features weren't interesting enough for the class to fully meet our standards. We also wanted to add more Mind options and clean up existing ones, which even opened the door to channeling more than one mind at a time (inspiration we took from our Bennen Jerryzet Monk subclass in Restaurants & Retail), allowing a player to channel the minds of some inventor duos, like Wilbur and Orville Wright! In the final book, you'll also get a glimpse at William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain getting Murkanized as the first Illuminated artificers who developed the Conduit technology they use!

Without further adieu, I hope you enjoy the Illuminated Artificer.

Let us know what you think in the comments! Also, don't forget to let us know which subclasses, spells, items, or monsters you'd like to see us showcase! We'll be dropping sneak peaks from across all three books as the campaign continues. 

Cheers, and thanks for reading!

Jaron R. M. Johnson and the Action Fiction Faction

I’m sure you know by now, but Murka is a high-fantasy playable parody of the all-too-real, capitalist hellscape known as the United States of America.

What makes Murka different, you (didn’t) ask? I’ll tell you. Furry druids, dragons with guns for faces, food magic, Walmoria, gunchucks, explosives, items that aren’t just cursed, but cursed... You get the picture.

This world is a labor of love that my friends and I have been working on for 10 years oh my god, has it really only been five years? Are we in the finale episode of some television show jumping its 13th shark? What the hell is going on?

I hope you have fun with this little nearly 60-page sampler PDF. We picked stuff that we thought was bite-sized and funny, but there’s around 800 more pages of content where this came from. 

We'd love to meet you, answer your questions about Murka, and welcome you to our community. Just click here to join us on Discord! 

Cheers, thanks for reading this far. See you all real soon. 
Jaron R. M. Johnson, and the Action Fiction Faction