Gird thine loins! Be ready! If such middling, obscure franchises as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings get to have RPGs, why not Monty Python?
Crowbar Creative and publisher Exalted Funeral certainly think it deserves one. Thus,they’ve announced the upcoming launch of a Kickstarter for a tabletop role-playing game: Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme, which is, in fact, not a role-playing game (silly), but rather a fully official and 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 your friends,” insist the team. (Not very convincingly).
The 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 adventure modules. There is also a madcap, backgammon-based minigame that involves dice catapults and farm animals, which is called Fetchez la Vache.
Although 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 educational advancement.
Players need not be familiar with Monty Python’s catalogue of works 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 Mediaeval Reenactment Programme will be available for pre-orders 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 Day One backer specials and add ons including custom dice, a Head of Light Entertainment screen, and a Fetchez la Vache set with dice catapults.
This new Monty Python game is the brainchild of a team led by Brian Saliba, a writer and publisher with more than thirty years’ experience playing, running, and writing tabletop games, and more than twenty years’ experience in the publishing industry. He founded Crowbar Creative in 2018 as a gaming side-gig and published the award-winning Rackham Vale: Fantasy Adventure from the Art of Arthur Rackham. The side-gig became the fulltime gig. He lives in Virginia with his partner, two dogs, and an unhealthy obsession with Alabama football.
Crowbar Creative are currently running a Kickstarter for another project, Dr. Grordbort’s Scientific Adventure Violence RPG, based on the comics, art, and universe created by Wētā Workshop’s Greg Broadmare. This game offers a unique and comprehensive guide to creating outlandish, interplanetary adventures, lavishly illustrated with art by Broadmore and Wētā Workshop. It’s designed for use with the fifth edition of some game with dragons and other silly, scientifically unfounded elements…
John Freeman
The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Star Trek Explorer (previously known as Star Trek Magazine) and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War and “Dan Dare”. He’s the writer of "Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies" for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.
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