The announcement:
Exalted Funeral and Crowbar Creative are chuffed to announce the release date for the new, much ballyhooed tabletop role-playing game, Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme, which, having raised $1.9 million on Kickstarter, is set for wide release on March 5th, 2025.
The Programme lovingly rips off Monty Python’s entire body of work and crams it into a rules-lite, expectation-defying experience, and is proven to be 46.3% more serious and educational than all those silly play-acting games on the market. The creators hereby proclaim the game to be entirely uncontaminated by satire, farce, parody, surrealism, wordplay, fourth-wall-breaks, allusions to Proust, references to a certain potted meat, and any other elements that could be used to evoke mirth.
“Seems like no matter how grim and serious your Medieval role-playing game is meant to be, somebody’s going to propose the building of a Trojan rabbit, mention unladen swallows, or shrug off incoming damage as ‘only a flesh wound’,” says Brian Saliba, founder of Crowbar Creative. “It’s almost inevitable: Death, taxes, and RPG Pythonification. So we concluded that by starting with a Monty Python RPG we’d ensure a robust and serious gaming experience.”
“But everybody knows the lines–if not the entire movie–by heart, so there’s no use just replicating familiar scenes. Fortunately, our licensor agreed and opened up their entire catalog for us to plunder: television, films, books, albums, artwork, etc. So even though the games defacto setting is England circa 932 AD, you may well find yourself facing a Roman legion, an atomically mutated cat, swashbuckling accountants, unexpected inquisitors, or an enraged studio audience. It’s all rather mad. Frankly, I can’t believe they said ‘yes’. Are you still recording?”
Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme is unquestionably the world’s greatest tabletop role-playing game that features the word ‘spam’ on one out of every seven pages.