Peering through your binoculars, you see the scientist place his hat on the bench. Did he slip something beneath it?
You wait silently in your hidden location, watching the tourists, businessmen, and civil servants strolling through St James’s Park. Any one of them could be his contact.
In the stillness of the summer air, a twig snaps behind you. The click of a pistol’s safety being released. What do you do?
Top Secret is an action thriller set in the modern world. You play as a secret agent working for ICON, the International Covert Operations Network.
It’s a tabletop role playing game that’s easy to learn but delivers realism and depth for one-shot missions or long-term campaigns.
The basic rules are simple. Roll three dice — a 13 or better equals success. Depending on your character’s abilities and modifiers, each die could be as small as a d4 or as large as a d12.
Published missions may find you boarding a Russian ship in the Baltic Sea, infiltrating a black market weapons bazaar in the Sahara, tailing spies in London, following a Turkish general in an Istanbul nightclub, or whisked away to a survival course in the remote North American wilderness. Or create your own!
Whether your play style is more Mission Impossible or more Slow Horses, Top Secret gives you the chance to be a secret agent of your own invention.
Free quick start rules
Download a free two-page set of quick start rules, including the complete Top Secret character sheet.
The core mechanic is simple. Roll two attributes and a difficulty die for any task. If you roll a 13 or higher, you succeed.
This is the same quick start we hand out at game conventions for new players. It has everything you need for a one-shot. Try it out!
Where to buy the full game
Top Secret box set
Top Secret: New World Order is available as a box set containing everything you need to play:
- 120 page core rulebook
- 3-panel administrator’s screen
- 4 player mats
- 20 agent dossiers
- 40 markers for hazards, vehicles, and agents
- 9 vehicle sheets w/speed markers
- 6 polyhedral dice
- Introductory mission module: The White Queen
Forged With Fire
Ideal as a starting point for new characters or as a setting for ongoing adventures, the two-book set comes in at a total of 108 pages and includes detailed maps of The Crucible, a secret training base hidden somewhere in North America.
The player characters are recruited from their current lives and invited to join ICON, the International Covert Operations Network. They are flown to an undisclosed location where the players will take their characters through scenarios including HALO jumps, hand-to-hand combat, hacking, parkour, guerrilla tactics, surveillance, and tactical driving.
But there’s more to the mission, as the players will soon be surprised to discover…
Rendezvous Oasis
A COVERT MISSION IN THE SAHARA
Sharp grains of sand whip through the air, stinging your face. Obscured by the heat waves rising from the Sahara, a line of pickup trucks is just visible on the horizon.
Lifting your heavy M25 binoculars to your eyes, the scene comes into view—there are gunners standing in the beds of the trucks, firing at a distant enemy you can’t quite see. A glint of light catches your eye, and you focus on a strange piece of electronic equipment in the truck. Could this be what you’re looking for?
You climb into the passenger seat of your own 4×4, exhorting your fellow agents to take you closer. The gyro in your binoculars holds the scene steady as you see the gunner stagger backwards and fall out of the pickup bed. Another truck explodes in a flash of light and smoke. Should you join the fight, or stick to the mission and head to the oasis?
The Drop
A Belgian businessman is suspected of violating international sanctions by selling secrets to Iran. The agents must stake out the location of The Drop to gather proof of the exchange.
The first installment in the Black Ops missions, a digest-sized set of missions for Top Secret: New World Order.
Operation Landfall
The second installment in the Black Ops missions, a digest-sized set of missions for Top Secret: New World Order.
You must infiltrate an agent’s estate to secure vital intelligence provided by his network. Sneak in where you don’t belong, use all your tradecraft to complete the mission, and escape unnoticed — or face the consequences.