2025 State of Mongoose for ParanoiaHello citizens! Each year, Mongoose Publishing puts out a long email/blog describing what's going on in the company. Here are the 2025 excepts that relate to Paranoia:
It is always fun to work on Paranoia manuscripts, and WJ MacGuffin and his team have been pulling absolute blinders (slaying, for the younger readers), steadily increasing both quality and level of satire in their writing. This, for me, culminated in the recent release Powers That Be: Trust No One. Focussing on both service groups and secret societies, this might well be the best thing ever written for Paranoia (controversial!). If you like your real world satire baked into a madcap utopian underground city ruled by an insane loving Computer… you really want to take a look at this book.
[Paranoia] More missions to fail, more treason to ignite, and more rules to ignore! That is our plan for 2026.
Amidst such missions as
Swap Meet and
(Un)Fair Competition, we are working on
Traitorous Little Git, a new hardback for Paranoia. This is very much a player-facing title on… well, how to play Paranoia better with blackmail, threats, Favours, online treason in Alpha Complex, and so on. The goal with this one is to help players enjoy Alpha Complex more by opening their eyes to the nefarious scheming possible in this game.
You know, if they are not already at each other’s throats by the end of character creation…
One fun tidbit: Why did Mongoose say Powers That Be might be the best written supplement for Paranoia ever?
Because that's what the original creators of the game said. They review every page we create and we don't publish until they give us their approval. This time, they didn't even ask for any revisions from the first, full draft we submitted. I have literally never had that happen in my 16+ year career in game design!
Plus the Illuminati are back... sorta. They're just a little confused over who is in charge. Or what they're supposed to do. Or what their goals are anymore. But someone keeps giving near-random orders, so I guess follow them?
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