Bureau 13
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| Bureau 13 Stalking the Night Fantastic |
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| Designer(s) | Richard Tucholka |
| Publisher(s) | Tri Tac Games |
| Publication date | 1983 (1st edition) 1984 (2nd edition) 1990 (3rd edition) |
| Genre(s) | Horror |
| System | Custom |
Bureau 13 is a fictional a top-secret government agency in the role-playing game Bureau 13:Stalking the Night Fantastic which investigates and combats supernatural events; their motto is "Protecting America from Everything". Stalking the Night Fantastic is a horror released by Tri Tac Games in 1983.
Bureau 13 has a definite tongue in cheek attitude that is emphasized by both the background stories and the illustrations.
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Nick Pollotta has published five novels set in the Bureau 13 universe:
- Bureau 13: Judgment Night, Fantasy/Humor, Nick Pollotta, Wildside Press, March 2002
- Bureau 13: Doomsday Exam, Fantasy/Humor, Nick Pollotta, Wildside Press March 2003
- Bureau 13: Full Moonster,Fantasy/Humor, Nick Pollotta, Wildside Press March 2004
- Bureau 13: Damned Nation, Fantasy/Humor, Nick Pollotta, Wildside Press, August 2005
- Bureau 13 Sourcebook, RPG guide, Nick Pollotta & Richard Tucholka Wildside Press, October 2006 This book was not released by Wildside Press
GameTek published in 1995 an adventure game game named from the pen-and-paper role-playing game.
- A secret organization named "Bureau 13" is mentioned in the Babylon 5 episode "A Spider in the Web". When J. Micheal Strackzinski heard about the game, he promised never to use the name again.[1]
