FTAGN!!!!!

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Charlie Stross and Cubicle Seven have announced the long anticipated Laundry RPG using BRP (Call of Cthulhu) rules.

And there was much SAN Loss rejoicing...

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And your problem with this is...? I once had three out of five PCs die in a single encounter with a relatively minor mythos entity; one fumble trying to shoot over someone's head to kill the monster behind him, one ripped apart by said monster, and one blown up by his own bomb after he'd gone insane. Another was killed by the police in an unrelated stupidity incident. It was a VERY entertaining session.

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I have no problems with murdering PC like there Candy - in fact great fun can be had by all in those circumstances. I'm a firm believer that cuthulhu should be sufficiently deadly that the term "campaign" means one character got through to the next week....

What I was trying to say is that CoC might look like a good rule fit because there both Mythos related - however the mythos of the Laundry is under control and used (if only by the laundry characters). Something that never happens in CoC.... It's a tone thing - and that's a big gap.

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Sorry, I thought I'd commented but it's disappeared. I think that the way to make this work would be for the control to be an illusion, gradually shattered as the characters are initiated into the cult rise through the Laundry hierarchy.

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I should add that without too many spoilers, one of the reasons why the Stars will shortly be Right in this series is that humans have attracted the attention of Mythos entities by their use of magic. It's spelled out most explicitly in the forthcoming third book but it's also implicit in the story that was on the Tor site over Christmas.