There's An Official Monty Python RPG Coming

Next month, Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme (yes, that's it's real name) will appear on Kickstarter. In the game, players will carry out quests in medieval Britain using a new rules-lite game system.

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Characters incude knights, enchanters, royalty, monks, peasants, and more, each of which has 5 of 20 possible traits such as science, glibness, sorcery, and so on. The system has players rolling a die, the size of which is determined by the 'silliness' of the trait's level.

In place of a GM, the game features the Head of Light Entertainment.

You can read more about it over on Dicebreaker.

 

[overgeeked]

This seems more like an idea for a...Monty Python sketch than a working game mechanism. The complaint letters seems like it would be funny to watch a group with dramatic training doing, but would rapidly become irritating in actual play as the GM (er, HoLE) who has to constantly play new personalities.

You mean as opposed to a regular GM who has to...checks notes...constantly play new personalities?

 

[Riley]

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[Riley]

I just received an email announcement about this Kickstarter from Exalted Funeral:

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If such middling, obscure franchises as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings get to have RPGs, why not Monty Python?

Earth — September 7, 2022 AD — Today publisher Exalted Funeral and developer Crowbar Creative and announced a forthcoming tabletop role-playing game: Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme, which is, in fact, not a role-playing game (silly), 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. *

This officially licensed Programme consists of a core book featuring an original rules-lite gaming system; guidance on designing adventures; character creation, bestiary, retinue, and NPC sections; tables for generating all sorts of things; and ready-to-run adventures. There is also a madcap, backgammon-based minigame that involves dice catapults and farm animals, called Fetchez la Vache.

Though the game is set in Mediaeval England, it draws upon Monty Python’s complete catalogue of works–Flying Circus, films, albums, stage and live shows–to create an interactive world full of their unique characters, creations, and sensibilities, which can be brought to bear for long-term campaigns or a single evening’s entertainment educational advancement. Players need not be familiar with Monty Python’s work in order to participate; nor is role-playing game experience required. (The latter would be entirely useless, as this is emphatically not a role-playing game, and if you do have extensive experience with such things, you are likely too silly a person to participate in this Programme and should stop reading immediately.)

Monty Python’s Cocurricular Medieval Reenactment Programme will be available to pre-order through Kickstarter in October 2022, with SKUs including the Bloody Peasant Edition, the Sensible Middle Class Edition, the Public School Edition, and the Upper Class Twit Bundle, along with early backer specials and add ons including custom dice, a Head of Light Entertainment Screen, and a Fetchez la Vache set with dice catapults.

*The publisher wishes to add that this is, in fact, exactly what it is: a tabletop role-playing game.

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[overgeeked]

It sounds like it could be a lot of fun. But like all RPGs, if the players don't buy in, there's nothing the referee can do.

RPGs are serious business. And cannot be played unless the entire thing is taken quite seriously indeed. That's part of the fun of this Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme (CMRP). Not taking things so seriously.

 

[overgeeked]

There's another Dicebreaker article...

Monty Python RPG creators on taking the piss out of D&D, letting players get silly - and why it’s not just Holy Grail

Chatting with the designers of Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme.

www.dicebreaker.com

 

[Haplo781]

NOBODY expects the Monty Python RPG adaptation!

We have one main weapon: surprise! Surprise and fear! We have two main weapons: surprise and fear! Surprise, fear, and preexisting devotion in geek culture! We have three main weapons: surprise, fear, preexisting devotion in geek culture, and snappy trade dress!

(I mean, I couldn't let that one go...)

Amongst our weaponry are such elements as... I'll come.in again!

 

[Weiley31]

*The publisher wishes to add that this is, in fact, exactly what it is: a tabletop role-playing game.

No it isn't!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I'm pretty sure this one's pining for the fjords already.

Besides, you cant quote MP in a MP game, so what does that leave?

 

[Peter BOSCO'S]

No it isn't!

Look, I can't argue unless you've paid me.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

We that was unexpected…