The Laundry

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)
• 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)

References

1. Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
2. Stross, Charlie (10 March 2010). "For sale; first edition of the Necronomicon (used once)". Charlie's Diary. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
3. "Laundry Supplements list on Cubicle 7 website". Retrieved 11 March 2015.