It's Monty Python, the role-playing game
New Dungeons and Dragons-style product released
It’s probably a decent sized Venn diagram overlap – and Monty Python fans who also like role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons are in luck.
A new tabletop game has been launched based on the troupe’s comedy, called Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme.
The games are based on The Holy Grail, which celebrates its 50th birthday next year, as well as sketches from the Flying Circus TV programme.
Touches include characters having silly or serious traits and a ‘looney status’ while the dungeonmaster role is called the Head Of Light Entertainment, or Hole.
It comes in various versions, including a deluxe £95 ‘fetchez la vache’ edition and a £40 ‘sensible middle-class’ set. Extras include a catapult so you can hurl dice in the same way the French knights might lob a cow, or a dice-roller in the shape of the coconut shells used to mimic horses’ clip-clops in the film.
Makers Exalted Funeral insist, tongue-in-cheek: 'Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme, 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.'
The game was put together following a crowdfunding campaign and is currently only available from the manufacturer's US website.
Here's an unboxing video:
And here's a play-though:
Published: 9 Mar 2025
