The Laundry
| A roleplaying game based on the "Laundry Files" novels by Charles Stross | |
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 Cover by Malcolm McClinton | |
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| Publishers | Cubicle 7 |
| Publication | 2010 |
| Genres | Horror |
| Systems | Basic Role-Playing |
| ISBN | 978-1907204937 |
The Laundry is a tabletop role-playing game published by Cubicle 7 in 2010.[1] The game is based on novelist Charles Stross's The Laundry Files series.
Description
[edit]The Laundry is a game where agents have to deal with Lovecraftian outer gods and British bureaucracy at the same time.[2]: 432
Publication history
[edit]Cubicle 7 used their Basic Role-Playing license to create The Laundry (2010), based on The Laundry Files series of novels by Charles Stross.[2]: 432 The game was published in July 2010.[3]
Cubicle 7 subsequently published a number of supplements:[4]
- 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, which provides dossiers of several occult artefacts.
- 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.
A GM screen was announced but was never released. Cubicle 7's licensing agreement with Chaosium expired by mutual agreement at the end of 2017.[5] In 2019 Cubicle 7 stated that the licensing issue would need to be resolved, or a new system introduced, before a revised edition could be published.[6] In July 2023, Charles Stross announced that a second edition was in the works.[7]
Reception
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Awards
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Ryder-Hanrahan, Gareth; Durall, Jason; Snead, John (2010). The Laundry. Oxford, UK: Cubicle 7. ISBN 978-1907204937.
- ^ a b Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^ Stross, Charlie (10 March 2010). "For sale; first edition of the Necronomicon (used once)". Charlie's Diary. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
- ^ "Laundry Supplements list on Cubicle 7 website". Retrieved 11 March 2015.
- ^ "Call of Cthulhu and Cubicle 7".
- ^ "Geek Native discuss Cubicle 7".
- ^ Stross, Charlie (2023-07-14). "Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming". Charlie's Diary. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
- ^ "The Laundry RPG". rpggeek.com. BoardGameGeek LLC.