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The Laundry is the world’s only ISO9001-approved occult intelligence agency. As a Laundry officer, you're empowered and bound to investigate bizarre cults, thwart misguided experiments, exorcise demons from computer networks or the brains of voters, and ensure that the world doesn't get destroyed ahead of schedule... and come in under budget, or the Auditors will eat your soul.

You can't efficiently protect the United Kingdom from the scum of the multiverse (in an efficient, enterprise-focussed sustainable customer-facing manner) without this employee's handbook. Inside, you'll find:
•Advice on tradecraft, tactics, and safe sorcery
•New equipment and training courses
•Things with tentacles, some of which may be your co-workers
•Rules for civilians, external contractors and non-Laundry personnel
•Archival notes on the Laundry, including rules for running historical games
•Maddening forms and eldritch bureaucracy
•And more!

The Laundry Files: Agent's Handbook – for those employees who, on the whole, would prefer not to be devoured by alien space gods. Everyone else, form an orderly queue for Cthulhu.

By Gareth Hanrahan, Jason Durall and John Snead. 128 pages. Published December 2011 by Cubicle 7.

The Nordic and Celtic peoples who settled Iceland in the 9th century came from lands with rich traditions of folklore, where the mythical and supernatural were part of daily life. They found an island of striking beauty, with inland valleys, richly grassed and forested lowlands, massive glaciers, and impressive volcanic mountain ranges. They also found the land to be teeming with spirits of nature and mythic creatures.

This book aims to bring to life the world of the Icelandic Sagas and fairy tales.

By Pedro Ziviani. 272 pages. Published by Chaosium December 2011.

Merrie England is a setting that allows you to play in medieval England, but an England where Robin Hood roams the forests, where evil magicians cast spells on their enemies, where great dragons terrorise the land and where the fairy folk still rule Fair Elfland.

This book contains character generation for Norman, Saxon, Jewish, Welsh, Cornish, Scottish, Irish, Fairy, Saracen or Moor player characters and has descriptions and rules for magic use and religions, as well as medieval background, scenario hooks and historical figures.

Revel in the mysteries of Morris Dancing, crusade against the heathen, uncover the secrets of the Masons, oppose the unjust taxes of your absent king, or simply abuse your authority over peasants and vassals. Your imagination is the only limit!

By Simon Phipp. 200 pages. Published December 2012 by Alephtar Games.

Magic pervades many worlds of the Basic Roleplaying game system, for in the game every adventurer - every character - has the capacity to manipulate invisible powers. This book explains the mechanics of three independent magic systems (spirit magic, divine magic and wizardry) and details ritual magic, a system common to shamans, priests and wizards.

• Spirit Magic considers the shaman, the natural energy currents of the world, and how to communicate with the spirits which live close to it. The ability to draw magical energies from within oneself is learned through contact with personal spirits.
• Divine Magic users believe in the existence of great powers, personalities, and archetypes which dominate the world. Through the agency of an entity, energies are drawn from the god plane and placed in the hands of priests and priestesses.
• Wizardry deals with greater and lesser mages, mortals complete in themselves who recognize only the impersonality of the universe, its immutable laws, and its exploitable qualities. They manipulate energies from many sources.
• Ritual Magic is common to the three perspectives from which derive spirit, divine, and wizardly magic. These formal procedures are the skills of Ceremony, Enchant, and Summon, and each uses ritualized motion, invocation, and expenditure of power points to achieve special effects.

By Greg Stafford, Steve Perrin, Raymond Turney, and Charlie Krank. 72 pages. Published by Chaosium October 2011.

This campaign guide is intended for use with The Age of Shadow and is presented in such a way as to quickly familiarise both players and GMs with the specifics of the setting, as well as providing a starting point from which many tales and adventures may arise.

Within these pages you will find:
• a brief history of the land and its people.
• a full colour map of the land itself.
• short descriptions of all of the major settlements.
• a number of alternate rules and items of interest.
• statistics for several NPC archetypes.

By Kristian Richards. 28 pages. Published by Crooked Staff Publishing August 2011.