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
Cubicle 7 used their Basic Role-Playing license to create The Laundry (2010), 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: 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. 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. In July 2023, Charles Stross announced that a second edition was in the works.
 * 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.

Awards

 * 2011 ENnie for Best New Game - Silver Winner