Top Secret Wedding

I kid you not, this is exactly what a wedding would be like for 90% of the characters we played back when we were playing Top Secret in the early 80’s. It wasn’t an espionage RPG in our hands, it was commando action, 24/7.

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[Agent S.E.V.E.N.] Agent Maximilian Fielding

Suave, sexy secret agents in action-packed espionage. From James Bond to Triple-X.
It was pointed out that my love of Top Secret and my love of 1PG pick-up games should not be exclusive. Rather, that with most of my players not interested in the crunch of Top Secret, I should take my Top Secret adventures and [...]

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[Espionage '88] Top Secret Advantages

The process of backwards converting the better parts of the Top Secret / S.I. game to the original Top Secret game (the basis for Espionage ‘88) is primarily in simplifying the combat systems and social interaction, and bringing over the Advantages & Disadvantages from TS/SI.
The biggest issue? Many of the advantages and disadvantages are obviously [...]

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[Fastlane] Robert Lee, Dirty Federal Agent

I think I may have mentioned my obsession with the Top Secret RPG in the past? Well, Fastlane is the RPG to handle that genre from the other side. Fastlane is a game where everything is in flux, it’s all about gambling, high-stakes, and going full-tilt full-time until you burn out. It’s the perfect game [...]

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[Espionage '88] Rebuilding the Bureaus

Espionage ‘88 is my project of working on combining my favourite parts of Top Secret and Top Secret / S.I. – basically taking the Top Secret game, and adding the advantages and disadvantages of TS/SI, as well as cleaning up and simplifying the hand to hand combat system and completely rebuilding the social contact rules [...]

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[Top Secret/SI] John Holmes, Porn Star & Secret Agent

Espionage games have been one of my vices since I was a teen. Of course, back then we mostly played them as “sneak around and shoot people” games instead of actual espionage, but over the years I’ve looked back on them with some serious nostalgia. Top Secret/SI was the second edition (third technically, the second [...]

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[Top Secret] Agent Rose Runner

Good old Top Secret was the first “modern” RPG I ever played in. It was also one of the first RPGs I was actually a player for instead of the Game Master. As such, I remember it beyond “fondly”. It has a special place in my heart and in my game collection.
Top Secret was TSR’s [...]

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