Back to: Pass or Fail Forward to: Summer webcomics. The Laundry Files RPG had an eight year run before an upstream licensing change forced it to be yanked off sale in It used a modified version of the Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu d20 rule set: Chaosium decided to revise their commercial sublicense terms in such a way that C7 couldn't continue to sell the game. Anyway, since late we've been discussing a second edition of the game, this time based on a different ruleset that isn't at risk of being abruptly yanked out from under them.
And we're now at the point where it's possible to admit in public that, yes, there's going to be a 2nd edition of the Laundry RPG! I don't have any further details to share at this time, but I'll update this blog entry as and when I've got something to report. While next year's Laundry Files novel, A Conventional Boy , deals with the world of role-playing games, it is not a tie-in and has nothing to do with this announcement. The Satanic Panic of the 's played out very well in Orkney, didn't it?
Linkie here. Just my extremely enthusiastic vote. There are better ones these days that avoid the trap of character levels and the like. That said I am not a fan of the trend towards buckets of dice as used in the White Wolf World of Darkness games or old school Shadowrun. My usual choice for a system that is easy to set up and run these days is the one used with Cyberpunk I hope it uses some variation of Delta Green 2e which suffered the same problem with Chaosium's yanking of their open license and found a way around it.
It would be great to be able to cross them over! And it's BRP-derived, so mostly compatible with Chaosium's d Plus, if Cubicle 7 resurrects their Cthulhu line with this system, they had amazing supplements such as Cthulhu Britannica and World War Cthulhu which might be great resources for Laundry 2e, too.
I have most of the stuff for the Laundry Files 1e, though I've run it only for one short campaign. It worked okay'ish but the CoC rules are a bit too fiddly for me and there were some unclear things. I'd like it to be something like Fate but that's kind of a far reach as it's a bit smaller game than most of the ones already mentioned. The BRP rules feel to me quite There are probably many better ones out there, even for this. Cubicle 7's annoucenment says that TL2E will use the in-house C7D6 system, so that sounds like it won't be either d or d Well, despite backward compatibility, I think C7D6 is an excellent system.
