| 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.
The Laundry is a game where agents have to deal with Lovecraftian outer gods and British bureaucracy at the same time. [2] : 432
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]
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]
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