Cubicle 7 Entertainment to publish roleplaying game based on Charles Stross’ Laundry Files novels

Cubicle 7 Entertainment is producing a roleplaying game based on the award-winning Laundry series (The Atrocity Archives, The Jennifer Morgue, and the forthcoming The Fuller Memorandum) by the even-more-award-winning Charles Stross, and uses the also-award-winning Basic Roleplaying System (Call Of Cthulhu) by Chaosium Inc.

“We love the Laundry Files novels, so we’re really excited about this game,” said Dominic McDowall-Thomas, Cubicle 7 Director. “The world of the Laundry is a perfect mix of espionage, conspiracy and tentacled menace from beyond the stars.”

“The books are Lovecraftian spy thrillers. The best elements from both genres are thrown together with a sprinkling of long lost Nazis, terrorist cultists, other foreign governments wanting a piece of the action, as well as Her Majesty’s Civil Service.” added Cubicle 7’s Angus Abranson.

The Laundry is a branch of the British secret service, tasked to prevent hideous alien gods from wiping out all life on Earth. Players take the part of Laundry agents, cleaning up the mess after things go wrong or, sometimes, even managing to prevent the manifestation of ultimate evil. Agents have access to the best equipment they can get their superiors to approve, from Basilisk Guns to portable containment grids to a PDA loaded up with Category A countermeasure invocations.

The game has been designed and written by industry veterans Gareth Hanrahan, Jason Durall and John Snead.

"I'm really excited to be working with Cubicle 7 to bring the sinister world of the Laundry to a wider audience," says Charles Stross, Hugo award-winning author of "The Atrocity Archives" and "The Jennifer Morgue".

The Laundry RPG is a self-contained rulebook and will be supported by a number of sourcebooks and adventure campaigns. The game is due to be released in July 2010.

For more information on The Laundry RPG, please contact info@cubicle7.co.uk

About Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd

Cubicle 7 Entertainment is a British-based publisher and events company, specialising in the games industry. Founded in 2006, by Angus Abranson and Dominic McDowall-Thomas, the company has published role-playing games from a list of licensed and home-grown properties including Victoriana, Starblazer Adventure (based on DC Thomson’s 80’s Starblazer comic series), SLA Industries, Qin: The Warring States and the recent Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space (licensed from the BBC). Cubicle 7 also works with a number of publishing partners helping bring their creations to print and into distribution. In June 2009 Cubicle 7 announced it had joined the Rebellion Group.

Cubicle 7 Entertainment: http://www.cubicle7.co.uk

About Charles Stross

Charles Stross is a full-time writer who was born in Leeds, England in 1964. He studied in London and Bradford, gaining degrees in pharmacy and computer science, and has worked in a variety of jobs, including pharmacist, technical author, software engineer and freelance journalist. Find out more about Charles Stross at http://www.antipope.org/charlie/index.html





CAPITAL LAUNDRY SERVICES – WHAT NEEDS TO BE CLEANED UP?

There are things out there, in the weirder reaches of space-time where reality is an optional extra. Horrible things, usually with tentacles. Al-Hazred glimpsed them, John Dee summoned them, HP Lovecraft wrote about them, and Alan Turing mapped the paths from our universe to theirs. The right calculation can call up entities from other, older universes, or invoke their powers. Invisibility? Easy! Animating the dead? Trivial! Binding lesser demons to your will? Easily doable!

Opening up the way for the Great Old Ones to come through and eat our brains? Unfortunately, much too easy.

That’s where the Laundry comes in – it’s a branch of the British secret service, tasked to prevent hideous alien gods from wiping out all life on Earth (and more particularly, the UK). You work for the Laundry. The hours are long, the pay is sub-par, the co-workers are… interesting (in the Chinese curse sense of the word), and the bureaucracy is stifling – but you do get to wave basilisk guns and bullet wards around, and to go on challenging and exciting missions to exotic locations like quaint, legend-haunted Wigan, cursed Slough and Wolverhampton where the walls are thin.

You may even get to save the world.

Just make sure you get a receipt.

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THE LAUNDRY roleplaying game is based on the award-winning Laundry series (THE ATROCITY ARCHIVES, THE JENNIFER MORGUE, THE FULLER MEMORANDUM) by the even-more-award-winning CHARLES STROSS, and uses the also-award-winning BASIC ROLEPLAYING SYSTEM (CALL OF CTHULHU).

In this book, you’ll find:
• Computational demonology, summoning extradimensional horrors, and three ways to use a shotgun to banish alien monsters.
• A history of the Laundry and the other occult intelligence agencies
• Classified briefings on known threats and monstrous horrors
• Streamlined rules for character creation, investigation and combat
• Three ready-to-play missions

Very cool.

Guaranteed customer here. And it uses a BRP engine. I am stoked.

I love The Laundry and am really excited about the RPG, just a shame it's BRP, which has never particularly appealed.

And that cover looks rather like something West End would have done for Ghostbusters or Paranioa.

My group is excited about this. They love the Laundry series. They love the fact that the Laundry RPG uses BRP. This essentially makes it compatible with Call of Cthulhu RPG and Delta Green. This gives it a wealth of material to use that will not have to be substantially rewritten. That C7 is publishing it makes this even better for us. We cant wait.

This looks a great laugh. I love the laundry books by Charles Stross, and thought they'd make a great game.

Guaranteed customer.

If you don't like BRP, have a look at www.thirdeyegames.net and their Apocalypse Prevention, Inc. It sounds very similar to me. There's also MWP's Demon Hunters (the link escapes me and their website hasn't worked properly for months now)

Not that the similarity will stop me getting this, though. Ticks just about every box you need to sell me a game and once it's converted to Ubiquity it'll be practically perfect.

The MWP website has been updated, but I suspect that Demon Hunters is out of stock, as it's not in their store any more.

Goes to show how long it is since I'd been there. I was beginning to think it would never get updated. Next you'll be telling me Eden Studios have finally got their site back in order! (Nope, not just now.)

Shame it's out of stock, it's a fun take on the setting. Far more comedic than API. You can still get a PDF, though: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?pro...acturers_id=116

My group is currently playing a call of cthulhu 1920's era game and I'm really excited to step things up with this game.

As someone pointed out on rpg.net, as this is BRP, it'll work with Delta Green...

Hmm, Laundry vs Pisces... That'd be a fun game!