The Laundry
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The Laundry is a role-playing game published by Cubicle 7 in 2010.
Description
The Laundry is a game where agents have to deal with the outer gods and British bureaucracy at the same time.[1]:432
Publication history
Cubicle 7 used their Basic Role-Playing license to create The Laundry (2010), based on the Laundry Files series of novels by Charles Stross.[1]:432 The role-playing game was based on the Laundry stories and published in July 2010.[2]
The game has seen a number of supplements:[3]
- Black Bag Jobs, a compilation of scenarios
- The Agent's Handbook which develops the agents' characters and the internal procedures of the organization
- The Mythos Dossiers, a compilation of in-game documents to use as play-aids and scenario seeds
- License To Summon, which give more details on the various forms of sorcery in the game universe
- God Game Black, which provides more information on the Sleeper's Plateau and how to introduce an eschaton menace in the game
- Cultists Under The Bed gives more information on the working of various forms of sects and cultists, with several examples of organizations
- Unconventional Diplomacy, a compilation of scenarios
- Targets of acquisition, several artefacts that The Laundry would like to obtain (electronic supplement)[citation needed]
- As Above, So Below, introduces rules for using special forces in the game and adding a political dimension to games. It also includes two new scenarios.
- (The GM screen was announced from the beginning but has yet to enter production)
Reception
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