Back in September, we reported on the announcement of an official Monty Python TTRPG. Lead designers Brian Saliba and Craig Schaffer have finished interviews about how they plan to adapt the distinctly irreverent and zany comedy of the Monty Python comedy group right into a rules-lite tabletop expertise. Now, the Monty Python TTRPG Kickstarter marketing campaign has gone reside. Within an hour, it was totally funded.

The Monty Python TTRPG Kickstarter

According to the official Monty Python TTRPG Kickstarter marketing campaign web page, the is loosely set in medieval occasions, however full of concepts throughout the comedy group’s whole movie and TV historical past. If you aren’t aware of the works of Monty Python, you may nonetheless benefit from the sport and never be fully misplaced. The marketing campaign web page goes into element in regards to the sport’s guidelines such because the Serious-Silly cube continuum, a chart that swings forwards and backwards primarily based on the actions and traits of significant characters, totally different personalities the GM is inspired to modify between to maintain issues fascinating, in addition to Merit and Demerit tokens given out for when issues get too foolish or severe. There’s even a short paragraph on a Backgammon-style minigame, Fetchez la Vache, which includes cube catapults, meeples, and impolite French folks.

When the Monty Python TTRPG Kickstarter went reside, it had a funding objective of $200,000. At the time of writing it has raised $500,949, greater than double its objective. This is due partly to the marketing campaign’s totally different backer tiers that are as follows:

• Bloody Peasant for $25: This will get you a PDF of the core rulebook
• Sensible Middle Class for $65: This will get you a PDF, a typical hardcover version of the e-book, and a set of customized cube
• Public School Bundle for $95: This will get you a PDF, a set of customized cube, and a Kickstarter-exclusive hardcover copy of the e-book
• Less Sensible Middle Class Bundle for $110: This will get you all the pieces within the Sensible Middle Class tier in addition to a GM Screen, and a set of Merit and Demerit tokens
• In My Day Bundle for $140: You get all the pieces within the Public School Bundle in addition to a GM Screen, and a set of Merit and Demerit tokens
• Not At All Sensible Middle Class Bundle for $220: This will get you all the pieces within the Less Sensible Middle Class bundle in addition to a replica of the Fetchez la Vache minigame
• Upper Class Twit Bundle for $250: This will get you all the pieces within the In My Day Bundle in addition to a replica of the Fetchez la Vache minigame.

Furthermore, there are some stretch targets and limited-time promotional objects. If you again the sport earlier than 10:00 AM ET on October 21, all backers will obtain an unique Head of Light Entertainment sash in your GMs to put on at your desk. As for the stretch targets, they embrace some on-brand jokes, hitting $200,001 means the e-book might be on paper as a substitute of stone tablets for instance, in addition to some further content material. As of proper now, that content material consists of new creatures for the Bestiary, extra NPCs, model new personalities for the GM, further Merit and Demerit tokens, in addition to further prewritten adventures. But there’s nonetheless loads of incentive for backers like nesting containers for customized cube units, further cardboard equipment for Fetchez la Vache, in addition to new pop-ups and equipment for the GM display.

The Monty Python TTRPG Kickstarter additionally addresses transport issues. The marketing campaign does verify it can have UK and EU pleasant transport, and offers estimates for transport prices throughout numerous areas. The marketing campaign managers will acquire these transport charges as soon as the BackerKit pledge supervisor survey has been accomplished. However, the marketing campaign does state that these charges are estimates and are topic to vary. Given the dimensions of among the supplies in these backer tiers in addition to the unsure nature of freight transport internationally, please take this under consideration earlier than you again this marketing campaign.

The Monty Python TTRPG Kickstarter will conclude November 18. All of its merchandise are anticipated to ship out to backers on October 2023.