Top Secret Role Playing Game – A Little Background
Welcome to the newly re-designed website for the “Top Secret Espionage Role Playing Game™”. Write-this-down.com is our homage to the role-playing game.
The “Top Secret Espionage Role Playing Game™” by Merle M. Rasmussen was published by TSR Hobbies, Inc. in the early 1980’s. The game was designed as a way to enter into the espionage world populated by such characters as James Bond. In the mid to late 1980’s the game was redesigned and then renamed “Top Secret/S.I.™”. Our group of players didn’t care much for these revised rules, although there was some good module/source material that came from the TSSI (as it came to be known) game. The information presented within this web site is based almost entirely on the original set of rules as well as the Top Secret Companion® which was published in 1984, also by TSR Hobbies, Inc. We have added some revisions to some rules as well as devised our own set of rules to deal with certain subjects. We utilized articles about the Top Secret (TS) game that were published in Dragon® magazine. We also prepared our own gun list as well as expanded the originally printed material by utilizing the gun design rules that came with the game. Hereafter I will generally use acronyms when referring to the different games. For example: Top Secret will be TS, Top Secret/S.I.™ will be TSSI, and the Top Secret Companion® will either be TSC or just “the Companion”.
Write-this-down.com is our repository of information that we can use for our own gameplay. In addition to the above, this site will contain information about our missions and timelines which can be found in the calendar section.
In addition, I have added a feature to the calendar page that I hope our group can enjoy. I have added a Google Map of where in the world all of our missions have taken place.
UPDATE (Oct 2025): The gun list has been updated with a new semi-auto pistol, the Sig-Sauer P229. The calendar has been updated with some info from the latest mission and the world map has been updated with the four locations from the most recent mission. UPDATE (June 2025): This Gun List area has been updated with the categories of “Aircraft Cannons” & “Aircraft Missiles”. These weapons were included in a Dragon Magazine article in issue #113 and called “Top [Secret] Guns”. We haven’t had this listed before. The formatted gun list has not yet been updated. That will be coming soon.
NEW Top Secret: New World Order®
It is hard to believe but back on June 27, 2017, TSR Games began a Kickstarter campaign to finance a new Top Secret game. Update #1 posted on June 28, 2017, on the Top Secret: New World Order Kickstarter website informed folks that the game was funded in the first half hour! Several in our group participated in the Kickstarter for Top Secret: New World Order® (TSNWO). As with most Kickstarter campaign’s, it took a while for all the logistics to fall in place. But fall in place they did and the author of this site got his materials around April of 2018. Our group generally is a little slow in adopting new rules for games. (Guilty as charged!) However, in 2020, our group officially began attempting to get a game up and running. See the Web Links page on this site for more links about the new Top Secret: New World Order® game.
Page/Site Author: David Sell
Email: David Sell
Site Last Updated: 1/9/26
New WP Site Posted: 09/02/19
Project Began: 11/1/04
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