Bureau 13 is a fictional top-secret government agency featured in the role-playing game

Role-playing game

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 (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

Tri Tac Games

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 in 1983

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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

Babylon 5

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 episode "A Spider in the Web

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". However, when J. Michael Straczynski

J. Michael Straczynski

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 heard about the game, he promised never to use the name again.

Spinoffs

Nick Pollotta

Nick Pollotta

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 has published five novel

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s 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
  Wildside Press
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   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

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 published an adventure game

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 game named from the role-playing game in 1995.

See also

• Vector 13
  Vector 13
  Vector 13 is a 2000 AD comic strip which featured the eponymous agency setup to investigate anomalous phenomena and conspiracy theories. It was influenced by The X-Files and other events like the 1995 release of the alien autopsy film...
  
  
• Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense
• Men in Black
  Men in Black
  Men in Black , in American popular culture and in UFO conspiracy theories, are men dressed in black suits who claim to be government agents who harass or threaten UFO witnesses to keep them quiet about what they have seen. It is sometimes implied that they may be aliens themselves...
  
  
• Special Unit 2
  Special Unit 2
  Special Unit 2 is a short-lived, American sci-fi/comedy television series, filmed in Vancouver, BC and aired on UPN for two seasons from April 2001 through February 2002...
  
  
• Delta Green
  Delta Green
  Delta Green is a setting for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game created by Adam Scott Glancy, Dennis Detwiller, and John Tynes, aka the Delta Green Partnership, of the Seattle gaming house Pagan Publishing...