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Monsters of Murka Trilogy: Ratified & Radified

Created by Action Fiction

Enter a World where Capitalism is King. Then, punch it in the face. Monsters of Murka is a Platinum-Best-Selling trilogy of campaign settings for 5e D&D. We've added hundreds of new spells, items, and monsters, all with that over-the-top Murka flavor!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

140k STRETCH GOAL UNLOCKED: New one-shot reveal! Adamantine Chef Triathalon
9 months ago – Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 11:23:42 AM

We're doing a whole new one-shot! All our backers will get a digital copy of this one for free!


My fellow Murkans,

Our first stretch goal on the west coast road trip has been unlocked! LET'S GOOOO

We have now unlocked:
  • 140k:  Restaurants & Retail One-shot Adventure 

Let's talk about it!

Restaurants & Retail One-shot Adventure: Adamantine Chef Triathalon

This one is a working title, but I think it accurately conveys the basis for the adventure. Players will enter into the Adamantine Chef Triathalon, where they will need to shop for ingredients, prepare the food, and then use our brand new EATING COMPETITION MECHANIC to consume all that food as quickly as possible. I'll be showcasing those rules on a later date, we just finalized them last night and MAN are they fun. 

Look for that in the next few days.

New Stretch Goal Reveal: Community Book Addition!

We want to add something new to one of our books, and we want YOU to decide! This can be a significant addition, something like a location, several monsters, whatever you all want! Jump in the comments and tell us what book and what addition you want. We're gonna keep soliciting this information and then do a poll at the end of the campaign, so let us hear your ideas!

Stoked to give you everything we have and more. Thanks for making this such an incredible journey.

Yours across the plains of Midwesteros,

Jaron R. M. Johnson
And the Action Fiction Faction

Adventure Capitalism, a 1st-level Economancy Spell [Murka Preview]
9 months ago – Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 04:39:52 PM


To celebrate all the stretch goals we've been hitting lately, today I bring you Adventure Capitalism, a 1st level spell from the magic school of economancy. Don't just believe in your friends—invest in them!

Economancy is a school of magic unique to the world of Murka. The rising and falling of the magical market is beyond the understanding of the uninitiated, but to an economancer, it’s allegedly comprehensible. Economancers leverage the beauty of the buck, the effusive aspects of supply and demand, and the invisible strings which barely hold capitalism together, all to weave a system of magic so complex, many wizards—economancers included—argue whether or not it can be predicted with any accuracy, or whether it exists at all.

I am a big fan of the simplistic resource-driven nature of the spell, being a single invested re-roll resource that may or may not get spent. It also has some great roleplay potential, and would allow you to eek out an Aristocratic lifestyle with ease—something almost all economancers are wont to do, when they aren't out there adventuring.

With the school of economancy, we really wanted to play with a new kind of resource management, and create a school of magic that's all about exchanges. In addition to Adventure Capitalism, you'll find plenty of fun spells like Conjure Cash Cow and Shrinkflation.

And, of course, it wouldn't be a new school of magic if there weren't a wizard subclass specific to the school. But if you want that, you'll have to grab the books. Or I might come back and post the subclass just because I'm really excited about it, lmao. WHO KNOWS.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy Adventure Capitalism and the Magic School of Economancy.

Let us know what you think in the comments! As a reminder, this content is a work-in-progress, and we're looking for your feedback and playtesting. If you see any glaring issues, don't be shy about pointing them out!

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 

130k STRETCH GOAL UNLOCKED: Spot-gloss on all books, plus NEW STRETCH GOAL REVEALS
9 months ago – Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 01:57:41 PM

WE HAVE ADDED NEW STRETCH GOALS! AHHHHHHH


My fellow Murkans,

After a quick trek back up the East Coast to Portaland, we've stepped through the eponymous portal and found ourselves on the West Coast of Murka. It's time for the Murkan equivalent of the Oregon Trail, but hopefully with less dysentary.

We have now unlocked:
  • 130k:  Spot Gloss on all hardcover books 

Thanks for sticking with us for this wild Murkan road trip. HERE WE GO!

Spot Gloss UV

Really happy about unlocking this because it's SUCH a nice touch. All standard-edition hardcover books will now get spot gloss UV. That means even if you didn't back at the fancy Deluxe tiers (why didn't you? Do you hate me? It's okay, I get it), your books will still be extremely high-quality, unbelievably beautiful, and fun to touch with your grubby little shiny-loving goblin grabbers.

Spot UV is essentially when a section of the book is raised and glossy, giving it a 3D sort of effect.



Next Stretch Goal: Restaurants & Retail One Shot

Y'all seemed very excited about our Hometown Heroes one shot, and we realize what Murka really needs is some more adventures to showcase some of the really awesome new mechanics we're making. While I can't cover the full details of this one shot until we unlock it, I can confirm that it will showcase one of our new alternative combat mechanics that we're currently polishing, and I think you're gonna LOVE it.

Welcome to the kitchen. Please don't mind the heat. We're cooking in here.

Yours across the plains of Midwesteros,

Jaron R. M. Johnson
And the Action Fiction Faction

130k! New Stretch Goals Incoming Later Today
9 months ago – Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 09:36:38 AM

Just a quick one for now!

My Fellow Murkans,

We just hit 130k! I'll have more details later today for you, but I can confirm that this means we've unlocked a new stretch goal, even though we haven't posted the West Coast Goals yet, lmao. You guys are so FAST and I LOVE IT.

All the hardcover books are getting upgraded at this tier with some really fancy shmancy beautiful spot gloss UV effects. Example below.



Will have a more formal update for y'all this afternoon, thanks for sticking with us! Happy Saturday!

Yours across the plains of Midwesteros,

Jaron R. M. Johnson
and the Action Fiction Faction

110k STRETCH GOAL UNLOCKED: VTT Support and Minis
9 months ago – Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 05:40:27 AM

I know we already confirmed VTT support but I accidentally sent out the last update with the wrong header and I wanna make sure everyone sees that WE'RE MAKING IT HAPPEN


My fellow Murkans,

We are rapidly approaching the end of the line in terms of stretch goals.

PSYCH, we've got a WHOLE OTHER LIST of stretch goals coming up real quick! Ones that include some more fun content that I cannot share yet but I think y'all are gonna be happy about it. 

We have now unlocked:
  • 100k:  Foundry VTT Conversion 
  • 110k: Minis Series 4

Please hold while we work on the new stretch goal graphic. We had some stretch goals planned for this level, but we honestly thought we would have more time before we needed to prepare the graphics, lol. For those who may not know, we are a super small team, and none of us are doing Action Fiction full time, so the success of this campaign has really blown us away and we're doing everything we can to keep up with y'all!

Minis Series 4

This should be our final series of minis. I'm getting closer to ironing out a few of the specifics in each series and putting them on the campaign page as add-ons; it'll be a hot minute before we're able to show off all the specifics in terms of visuals, our 3D artist was 100% not prepared to get this many mini opportunities lmao. He's REALLY stoked, there's fire in his chest and his hands are flying at mach-fuck to make these things, we just gotta take time to crank them out.

Minis will probably not ALL be prepared by the end of this campaign. We're gonna blitz them as fast as possible, but we also want to keep a really high quality for them, so we'll just need a bit of patience.

Foundry VTT Conversion 

Some of what follows will be repeated from last update, BUT FIRST I want to share the things that are new. 
  • The VTT Kit will be available as an add-on.
  • If you backed at the ALL-IN pledge tier or higher, you will automatically get the VTT kit.
    • I owe you guys an updated list of everything the ALL-IN tier gets, but suffice to say, it's "all-in" for a reason. You'll get Mini STLs, the VTT, the digital soundtrack - all sorts of tasty stretch goal content. And, as William Maize would say, it will be ABSOLUTELY FREE.

Below is content from the previous update detailing the VTT stuff further. If you read last update, skip ahead to Next Stretch Goal.

It feels like I barely even had time to announce that this had been revealed before we've already unlocked it. I suppose that goes for all of our stretch goals, but this one was a big one for me. I've wanted to see a VTT implementation for Murka for a LONG time, and I'm so damn excited that we're finally gonna make it happen. I've reached out to a VTT creator to see what it's gonna take to get it made, but the jury is still out on whether we'll be working with a VTT creator, or if we'll be making it ourselves (see: I will be making it myself, lol).



If you happen to know someone with VTT/Foundry creation experience, send them our way! You can hit us up on the Discord or email us at [email protected] about it. We love working with folks that like our stuff, it's a great way for us to support our supporters.

Next Stretch Goal: Dice Trays

Next on our list is making some fantastical, Murka-themed dice trays! We've worked with a dice tray maker in the past, so we're already reaching out to see if he's available. If he is, hell yeah! If not, we'll be on the lookout for someone who can make something TRULY Murkan. My current idea is to get a dice tray with those guy fieri style flames up the sides, lmao. But we'll see what we put together.

Thanks for your overwhelming support and generosity. You guys are supporting us so hard we can barely keep up, and I have NEVER known this level of support. I'm being supported into the sky. I'm being supported into lower earth orbit. You guys are supporting me until I can't see straight. You're supporting my brains out.

Which is fine because I don't need those; I'm writing Murka.

Yours across the plains of Midwesteros,

Jaron R. M. Johnson
And the Action Fiction Faction