Trouble for HAVOC

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Trouble for HAVOC
CHA2403 HAVOC Chaosium RPG supplement 1984 cover.jpg
Cover art by Chris Marrinam.
Designers
Publishers Chaosium
Publication
  • 1984
  • 2010 PDF
Genres Superhero
Systems

Trouble for HAVOC is a supplement for the superhero role-playing game Superworld that includes three adventures.

Contents

Description

Trouble for HAVOC includes three scenarios that focus on a criminal organization called HAVOC: [1]

Statistics in all the adventures are given for Superworld as well as the other superhero games Champions and Villains & Vigilantes .

Publication history

Chaosium published the superhero role-playing game Superworld in 1982. The supplement Trouble for HAVOC was written by Yurek Chodak, Donald Harrington, Charles Huber, and Steve Perrin, with art by Chris Marrinam, and was published by Chaosium in 1984. It was republished in PDF format in 2010. [2]

Reception

In Issue 71 of The Space Gamer (November-December 1984), Allen Varney commented "If you want a lot of genuinely interesting superheroes and villains for your campaign, Trouble for Havoc is certainly worth examining. If you hunger for subterranean action, you could do worse than the second scenario here. But mostly the adventures are file-and-forget." [3]

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References

  1. "Trouble for HAVOC". Guide du Rôliste Galactique (in French). 2009-05-08. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
  2. "Trouble for HAVOC". DrivethruRPG. One Bookshelf. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  3. Varney, Allen (Nov–Dec 1984). "Capsule Reviews". Space Gamer . Steve Jackson Games (71): 54.
  4. "Different Worlds #42". December 6, 1986 via Internet Archive.