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Haven: Secrets of the Labyrinth

Role-playing game supplement

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ135274739 ↗
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Haven: Secrets of the Labyrinth is a 1983 role-playing game supplement published by Gamelords for Thieves' Guild.

Contents

Haven: Secrets of the Labyrinth is a supplement in which a campaign setting details the thieves' guilds of Haven City, with a particular focus on the Black Hand guild. As a sequel to Haven: The Free City, it also explores thieves' markets, mercenaries, major non-player characters, and provides guidelines for haggling.

Publication history

Haven: Secrets of the Labyrinth was written by Janet Trautvetter, Kerry Lloyd, Kevin Hardwick, and Richard Meyer, and was published by Gamelords in 1983 as an 80-page book with 20 pages of cardstock map pieces.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Haven, Secrets and Labyrinth providing the first useful test.
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