Last Week of ‘The Laundry Files’ RPG On Kickstarter!
Charles Stross’ award-winning The Laundry Files RPG is going strong with its 2nd Edition, in its final week on Kickstarter.
The Laundry Files helps fulfill a particularly resilient tabletop fantasy: being in a labyrinthine bureaucracy that has a retro-future aesthetic and who busy themselves investigating the occult. It’s something that surprisingly few games tackle. There’s Night’s Black Agents a hack of GUMSHOE, and the upcoming Triangle Agency. But dealing with subject matter like the SCP files or games like Control or shows like Loki just hits something really resonant in the human psyche.
Maybe it’s the idea that there’s some mundane force that is already cataloguing the strange and horrifying out there. Maybe it’s the idea that magic is real, after all, and can be understood and catalogued. Or maybe it’s just that people love that vaguely cassette futurism but in an office kind of vibe.
Whatever the reason, The Laundry Files has already funded again and again on Kickstarter. With just a week left, there’s still time to get in on the game!
The Laundry Files RPG – Kickstarting Now
The Kickstarter campaign is to launch a new edition of The Laundry Roleplaying Game, starting with a whole set of new books, including player expansions as well as adventures revised for the new ruleset:
Introducing the second edition of The Laundry Roleplaying Game — an exhilarating blend of covert action, investigation, and dark cosmic horror that thrusts you into the chaotic world of underfunded government employees battling to save the world from unspeakable threats.
Your daily grind includes myriad perilous tasks, from exorcising co-workers gone awry to thwarting ambitious computer students from triggering reality-bending catastrophes. Sneak into supercomputer servers, join SAS troops on dimension-hopping missions, halt outbreaks of blood-draining brain parasites, and prepare for the inevitable apocalypse of CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN.
This second edition of The Laundry Roleplaying Game employs the acclaimed C7d6 system, renowned for its versatility, speed, and flexibility.
In a nutshell, you roll a pool of six-sided dice, trying to beat a difficulty class set by the DM. The more dice the better, and there are things you can take to manipulate that die roll, like Talents. It’s a fast play system that works to give you the opportunity to be one of the myriad staff in the Laundry.
With just five days left, there’s still time to join The Laundry Files, but be quick!
