Bureau 13

Bureau 13 is a fictional top-secret government agency featured in the role-playing game (RPG) Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic which investigates and combats supernatural events. The Bureau's motto is "Protecting America from Everything".

Stalking the Night Fantastic is a Bureau 13 horror game released by Tri Tac Games in 1983.

In 1991 the Bureau 13 series won the Gamers Choice Award at Gencon for best Fantasy Game. In 2008 a new d20 Modern edition was released. The series has a definite tongue in cheek attitude that is emphasized by both the background stories and the illustrations.

A secret organization named "Bureau 13" is mentioned in the Babylon 5 episode "A Spider in the Web". However, when J. Michael Straczynski heard about the game, he promised never to use the name again.^[1]

Spinoffs

Nick Pollotta has published five novels set in the Bureau 13 universe:

• The original trilogy, "Bureau 13", "Doomsday Exam" and "Full Moonster" were published by Ace Books in 1990.
• The Russian language editions were published by Armada Press of Moscow in 1994.
• An extended version of the trilogy and a fourth novel - " Damned Nation" were published by Wildside Press in 2003.
• "Bureau 13 Sourcebook" was planned but never released by Wildside Press.
• "Damned Nation" was released in 2007 by ATS Press in Moscow.
• A role-playing game called Era Vodoleya (Age of Aquarius) was published in Russia; it contains several references to Bureau 13. The game's protagonists, the Institution for Applied Exophysics, are actually a Russian counterpart to Bureau 13.

Videogame

GameTek published an adventure game game named from the role-playing game in 1995.^[2]

See also

• Vector 13
• Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense
• Men in Black
• Special Unit 2
• Delta Green

References

External links

• Tri Tac Games