The Laundry
The Laundry is a tabletop 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.Publication history
First edition
used their Basic Role-Playing license to create The Laundry, based on The Laundry Files series of novels by Charles Stross. The game was published in July 2010.Cubicle 7 subsequently published a number of supplements:
- 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.