Havoc Engine Toolkit

The Havoc Engine is a set of rules that underpin the phenomenally popular Eat the Reich and the much less popular Goat Crashers and Havoc Brigade roleplaying games. 

Havoc is: short-form, over-the-top, and gives players the bulk of narrative authority. 

Havoc believes players should do the fun thing immediately and then find another fun thing to do based on the first fun thing. This engine is more candy than you should eat. This engine is a greased pig. This engine is a drum kit for your seventh birthday. This engine is Friday night forever. 

The Havoc Engine Toolkit breaks down the core elements of the Havoc Engine and present them to you so that you can understand how these games work and why, and see which bits you want to rearrange, remove, or replace to make the game you want.

It also guides you to design your own original game using the engine with a series of directed questions and exercises. By the time you’ve read the toolkit, which takes maybe an hour, you won’t just be primed and ready to make a game that’s Unleashed by Havoc, you’ll be most of the way there.