SLA Industries is an obscure roleplaying game first published in 1993 by Nightfall Games in Glasgow, Scotland. The game combined some of the nastier elements of Glaswegian life with concepts inspired by a range of song lyrics, the gothic lifestyle, cyberpunk fiction (including Blade Runner and Max Headroom), Anime (especially Trigun and Bubblegum Crisis) and several other unusual sources in order to create an ultra-dystopian far-flung future in which the entire known universe was run by a single corporation: the eponymous SLA Industries.

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The SLA (pron. "Slay") Industries corporation itself was run by a weakly godlike creature called "Mr. Slayer", whose upper management team included a number of other creatures like himself, such as "Intruder", "Senti" and "Preceptor Teeth". The corporation was headquartered in a planet-covering city-sprawl called "Mort". Much of the setting was surreally disturbing, and tended to provoke as many questions as it answered.

Players took the role of freelance employees of SLA Industries living in Mort City, taking care of odd jobs assigned to them by the corporation. These jobs usually involved keeping the peace -- everything from hunting down serial killers, clearing out monsters from the sewers under the city and foiling terrorists to bodyguarding celebrities, quashing riots, assassinating irritating civilians and generally making sure the public toed the line. Appearance and style were emphasized in the game world as much as combat ability, because everything was televised, and a character's television ratings were often more important to her career than her abilities. Later expansions to the game also let players play as celebrity gladiators called Contract Killers. As a roleplaying experience, the game tended to be predisposed towards splatterpunk horror, noir, dark satire, and/or gunbunny high action.

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has discovered that SLA Industries seems to be out of print and out of stock anywhere. At least the new hardcover core rulebook.
Awakedreamer (Awakedreamer) Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:27:50 -0000
has discovered that SLA Industries seems to be out of print and out of stock anywhere. At least the new hardcover core rulebook.

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