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The Laundry

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The Laundry is a role-playing game published by Cubicle 7 in 2010. The game is based on novelist Charles Stross's the Laundry Files series.

Description

The Laundry is a game where agents have to deal with Lovecraftian outer gods and British bureaucracy at the same time.^[1]{{rp|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]{{rp|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){{cn|date=April 2016}}
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

References

1. ^¹{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/03/for-sale-first-edition-of-the.html |title=For sale; first edition of the Necronomicon (used once) |last=Stross |first=Charlie |date=10 March 2010 |work=Charlie's Diary |publisher= |accessdate=22 June 2010}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.cubicle7.co.uk/our-games/the-laundry/supplements/ |title=Laundry Supplements list on Cubicle 7 website |accessdate=11 March 2015}}

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