As tabletop role-playing games explode in popularity, indie publishers are pushing the boundaries of the industry both behind the scenes and in game design, including the kind of content that gets adapted — like Monty Python’s popular Rain. Corpus of Fair Pregame content.
Publisher Exalted Funeral and developer Crowbar Creative have announced a new tabletop RPG called Monty Python’s Co-Curricular Medieval Re-evaluation Programa tome that cheekily calls itself “not just a role-playing game but just a very rigorous course of study for serious students of English history. It’s in no way imaginative, highly unpredictable, medieval-themed role-playing game.” There is not a complete and comprehensive manual for playing the playing game, which is based on the full comedic output of Monty Python with One’s Friends.
Which, of course, it really is. That dry British wit you’ll find every time!
per high funeral, revaluation program Will include:
A main book featuring the original Rules-Lite gaming system; Guidance on designing adventures; character creation, bestiary, retinue, and NPC sections; tables to generate all kinds of things; and ready-to-run adventures. There is also a crazy, backgammon-based minigame involving slingshot dice and farm animals called Fetchez la Vache.
The publisher also notes that while the game is set in medieval England, it comes from the entire Monty Python catalogue, from flying circus for stage shows. And for those who are worried it will turn their Monty Python loving friends too More Unstoppable quote-lovers, designers Brian Saliba and Craig Schaefer told the folks at Dicebreaker that they’re interested in making the game much more than that.
“What were we adamant [about] Can’t it just be a replica of scenes from movies and TV shows,” Saliba said in the Dicebreaker interview. “It’s a matter of providing a toolbox of stuff that people can create stories that feel very Monty Python without having to recreate the scenes.”
So hopefully the final product will be more of a role-playing adventure that happens to be fun, as opposed to a world set in what Monty Python fans think is fun. After all, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Monty Python’s Co-Curricular Medieval Re-evaluation Program Will be available on Kickstarter on October 22nd.
