Monty Python comes to the tabletop with a new RPG book from Exalted Funeral. It’s all a bit silly, as expected, and should be just the thing for diehard fans.

Formally titled Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme, it is the rare game that does exactly what it says on the tin.

It’s Dungeons & Dragons, Monty Python style. Well, only kind of. There are more jokes and the rules are completely different, because this is an original game, coming to Kickstarter this fall.

If I had to choose a videogame archnemesis, it wouldn’t be a boss or an enemy. It would be a completely benign figure in the ecosystem of game design conventions: the inventory system ...