The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen - the RPG of Drinking, Gambling, and Competitive Lying is back in (virtual) print - as a

The game is incredibly simple, and involves no dice, cards, or other randomizing device, but only your wits and a trusty blade! (Or rock, paper, scissors, if you want to be all safe about it.) You play nobles gathered around a table swapping exaggerated tales of your own devising, with help and bribery from your friends and rivals.

This is a great RPG to play in a public place, preferably a bar or other den of inequity. (I have played it in bars with SCAdians, at Ren Faires with complete strangers, and as a game within a game for a Changeling LARP.)

The winner buys the drinks.

The Auld Grump

*EDIT* The SCAdians and some of the Rennies did solve their conflics with a quick duel or two...

Well if you have all those weapons just lying around you know SOMEONE was going to pick one up!

It is really very difficult to describe just how much fun this game is - at least for those of us with extrovert leanings. It is the only RPG that I have ever played that actually does have a winner. (I have been that winner more than once, curse the luck - winning can get expensive! While you get to keep the wagers I don't think that they ever covered the tab. (Except at the Changeling LARP - where the drinks were a. free and b. nonalcoholic and the wagers were play money only.) The Changeling LARP was also the only one that didn't have any dueling - the players were more than willing to just share tall tales and complicate each others yarns.

A print version is coming out under the Mongoose Flaming Cobra imprint. Now I have to decide which version to get... I really should not get both, but each has advantages.

The Auld Grump - Col. Sir George Abernathy-Witherspoon, third Viscount Haberfarm (Ret.)