I'll admit that I did do one thing different than the 'recommended' primary method of character generation. For someone who was familiar with D&D's character generation mechanics, V&V was an easy transition. I bought the game, read the rules, and proceeded to make several dozen characters using V&V's easy to use character creation system. Art that portrayed dynamic superheroes with names like 'Shatterman' and 'Magnetor.' Like the illustrations in the Moldvay/Cook D&D books, Dee's advertisement superheroic images evoked a sense of fun. The Villains and Vigilantes advertisements in Dragon Magazine also featured art by Jeff Dee. While Dee's D&D illustrations where 'comic book-ish,' they fired my imagination and were one of the key reasons I enjoyed the Moldvay/Cook D&D books.

But mostly the adventures are file-and-forget.I cut my role playing teeth in the rpg hobby with the Moldvay/Cook edition of Dungeons and Dragons which featured a large number of illustrations by Jeff Dee. If you hunger for subterranean action, you could do worse than the second scenario here. Varney commented that 'If you want a lot of genuinely interesting superheroes and villains for your campaign, Trouble for Havoc is certainly worth examining. Pre-generated characters are proposed for each team but the players are free to substitute their usual characters.Īllen Varney reviewed Trouble for HAVOC in The Space Gamer No. It is possible to play any team, or even play two or three teams in parallel if there are enough players.

'Fourth for Bridge?' is set in Antarctica, where several teams of super-beings-Americans, Russians, and a team from HAVOC-each try to be the first to the wreck of a spaceship landed in the ice.

'Return of the Elokians' includes a call for help, an earthquake, a confrontation with the villain King Snake, whose henchmen include members of HAVOC, and a lost world cavern occupied by a race facing extinction.

The heroes are called to dislodge a group of villains from a nuclear reactor.

'Crisis At Calliente' introduces HAVOC.

Trouble for HAVOC includes three adventures involving a loosely-organized villain group named Havoc.

It was republished in PDF format in 2010. The first anthology in the superhero game genre, has rules additions for Superworld, and three adventures containing stats for Superworld, Villains and Vigilantes, and Champions. Trouble for HAVOC is a superhero tabletop role-playing supplement, written by Yurek Chodak, Donald Harrington, Charles Huber, and Steve Perrin, with art by Chris Marrinam, and published by Chaosium in year. Yurek Chodak, Donald Harrington, Charles Huber, Steve Perrinīasic Role-Playing, Champions, Villains and Vigilantes

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