Universe
Rulebook, version 2.0

Credits and Acknowledgements

First and foremost, the staff of SPI and the original designers of Universe deserve mention. It seems like every time I think of tweaking this or that rule, on closer examination I can see the virtual fingerprints of a designer who already decided against the change for reasons I had not yet thought of. Here's the complete list, as given on page "i" of SPI's Universe 2nd Edition:

• Game design and development, project coordination: John H. Butterfield
• Design of physical systems and graphics: Redmond A. Simonsen
• Codevelopment and NPCs: Gerard C. Klug
• Creatures and advice: Edward J. Woods
• Developmental Assistance: David McCorkhill and David J. Ritchie
• Rules editing: Robert J. Ryer
• Research assistance: John Boardman, Ph.D.
• Game testing and advice: James Mulligan, David Spangler, Greg. A Gerold, Richard A. Edwards, Eric Lee Smith
• Additional testing: Robert B. Kern, Linus Gelber, Justin Leites, Julid Spangler, Ian Chadwick, Wes Divin, Mark Barrows, the Olympia Gaming Association
• Art production management: Manfred F. Milkuhn
• Art production and technical editing: Carolyn Felder, Ted Koller, Michael Moore, Ken Stec
• Cover illustration: John Pierard

Ian Taylor deserves my endless thanks for having scanned original Universe manuals and turned them into text in the first place. His web site (alas, now defunct) was an invaluable source for all things Universe.

My thanks go out also to the members of the Yahoo! group Universe_RPG (also defunct), who were an invaluable source of ideas, imagination and practicality.