Game designer Alf Seegert has created a board game inspired by The Canterbury Tales, which thrusts each player into the role of a Chaucerian pardoner-pilgrim “whose goal is to tempt and ’save’ as many Pilgrims as possible. If those pesky Pilgrims aren’t being sinful enough, phony Relic Cards will help encourage them to stay the unrighteous path.” Though the game isn’t written in inscrutable Middle English, it does maintain the humorous tradition of the original work infused with a bit of Monty Pythonesque flair, with ‘relics’ like “The Knickers of Saint Nicholas” and “The Scrambled Eggs of Saint Benedict.
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