A Monty Python TTRPG is coming, will provide much more than a flesh wound

As tabletop role-playing games explode in popularity, indie publishers are pushing industry boundaries both behind the scenes and in game design, including the kind of material that gets adapted — like Monty Python’s corpus of popular Ren Faire pregame material.

Crowbar Creative, publisher of Exalted Funeral, and Crowbar Creative are releasing a tabletop RPG called Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme, a tome that cheekily calls itself “not a role-playing game but rather a very rigorous course of study intended only for serious students of English History. It is by no means a complete and comprehensive manual for running imaginative, highly unpredictable, Mediaeval-themed role-playing games based upon the complete comedic output of Monty Python with one’s friends.”

It is, however, true. You will be able to rely on the dry British wisdom every single time.

For an Exalted funeral: Reenactment ProgrammeThis will contain:

This book provides guidance for designing adventures and character creation. It also includes information on NPC sections and tables that can be used to generate many things. Fetchez la Vache, a backgammon-based game that uses dice catapults to launch farm animals and is very entertaining, also exists.

Also, the publisher notes that, while it takes place in Medieval England and draws heavily from the whole Monty Python catalogue Flying CircusTo stage shows. For anyone concerned that it will make their Monty Python-loving buddies even more miserable, Continue readingUnstoppable quotes-freaks, Brian Saliba (designer) and Craig Schaffer (developer), told Dicebreaker they wanted to make the game more.

“What we were adamant [about] is it can’t just be replication of scenes from the movies and TV shows,” said Saliba in the Dicebreaker interview. “It’s more a matter of providing a toolbox of stuff that people can create stories that feel very Monty Python without recreating scenes.”

The final product should be more like a fun role-playing adventure than one that is set in the world Monty Python lovers think it’s funny. The Spanish Inquisition is not something anyone expects.

Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme Kickstarter release will occur on October 22.