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The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen

#2470BGG ↗

1998 · 3-20 players · 45min · weight 1.46 · 398 ratings

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ID
2470
Name
The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Year
1998
Rank
5455
Min players
3
Max players
20
Playing time
45
Min playtime
45
Max playtime
45
Avg weight
1.4643
Num weights
28
Bayes avg
5.74704
Average
7.21156
Users rated
398
Num owned
1078
Wanting
65
Wishing
352
Num comments
208
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:55 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (3)
Auction / BiddingRole PlayingStorytelling
Categories (3)
AdventureNovel-basedParty Game
Description (1070 chars)

This not-quite-a-role-playing-game requires players to sit around telling fantastic (but completely true!) stories. Players may attempt to trip up another player's story by wagering a token ("But the Prussian Army had dissolved by that time, m'lord, so you could not have possibly fought it single-handedly"), whereas the storyteller must counter with another token (and an excuse) or swallow their pride and incorporate it into their story (with another excuse). There are also a few, minor details, mostly used to get boring storytellers to stop. The game is won after each player has told one story. Each player, in turn, gives *all* their tokens to another player they believe has told the best story--so collecting the most tokens doesn't make you the winner, it makes you be able to choose the winner. Of course, the best story-telling wins the game. Re-published 2002 (starting at Essen) by Krimsus KrimsKrams-Kiste as Die unfasslichen Abenteuer des Freiherrn von Münchhausen. Is also listed on RPGGeek as The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.