The website was recently updated. We made some significant changes and are pleased to announce that Operative Online is out of beta test. If you experience any problems with the new website, please post on the user forum.

Original Annoumcement:

During the next several days, the Tower Ravens website will undergo some significant revisions. During this time Operative Online will experience some outages and you may encounter error messages while using Operative Online.

Please don't report any problems during this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Tower Ravens is offering the Universe Primer for half-price with a pre-order of either "Elevator Tag" or "Kid Universe". Sorry, our summer special is now over.

Operative Online is a free network utility available to Universe gamers. Operative Online will allow you to create and manage your character online. Then you can download the character on a completely filled-out character record sheet.

Game referee will be able to collect characters into campaigns where they can manage experience points, time, and even send an email message to all their players.

Right now, you can create a Universe character and print it out in a filled-out character sheet. More functionality is being added every week. Take a moment, sign up for a free Operative Online account, and take it for a spin.

National Games Week (NGW) is a celebration of non-electric games. Last year 2,600 games were run throughout the world in support of NGW. This year, Tower Ravens is pleased to announce that it is sponsoring NGW. Please take a moment and sign up for free membership at the NGW website.

NGW runs every fourth week of November. This year it will be November 20-26. If you live in the United States, be sure to buy a new game to share with the family at Thanksgiving.

We're very pleased to announce that Mike Sorensen has joined our team here at Tower Ravens. Mike has contributed scads of art to the primer; I'm sure you've seen his distinctive style. You'll also be seeing some PDF adventures created by Mike available on this website in the near future. Available right now, however, Mike has penned a colorful piece of art and turned it into wallpaper...you'll find it in our downloads section. Welcome Mike!

Tower Ravens is opening its playtesting activities to the public. This is a chance to get advance materials from the developers at Tower Ravens. To participate and receive playtest materials, you must sign a non-disclosure agreement. For more information, go to the playtest web page at this link.

Mark, Mike, William and Andria will be at Origins amid all the chaos, mayhem, and screaming. They haven't scheduled any games personally, however, if you find them they'll certainly run one for you and your friends. Email Mike if you want to prearrange a game.

Tower Ravens will be at the annual GAMA Trade Show in Las Vegas to exhibit our products to retailers. Check out our products in the main exhibit hall in booth 702. Mike and William will be there, so take a minute to chat with them.

After a few more delays due to some PDF incompatibilities the Universe Primer (core rulebook) has been released. You may purchase it here from our products page, or you may purchase it from your local games or comics store. If your local retailer does not carry Universe you may tell them they may order it from our distributor, ACD Distribution. We would also like to express our graditude to Excelsior Entertainment for helping Universe reach sci-fi and gaming fans everywhere.

Due to some binding concerns with our original printer we have selected a different printer for the Universe Primer. This has pushed our release date back to September 11th; however, assures a better quality binding.

Tower Ravens has increased the setting and reference materials, and has added many illustrations to compliment the body of work. We are increasing the size of the Universe Primer to 320 pages. The final price of the Primer is $29.95.

Some of us will be attending the Origins game convention in Columbus OH, June 26-29. Although we will not be running any events, and if you're going to be there, we can arrange to show you a pre-release copy of the Universe rule book. Contact Michael if you're interested.

We just returned from the GAMA Trade Show, this was definately not a game convention, it was work. Markus gave a seminar on prepress to other game manufacturers; it was very well received. Tower Ravens will have a large presence there next year.

William attended Game Storm in Portland, OR and demoed Universe, The Sci-Fi RPG. He ran the infamous "What's that Green Stuff?!" adventure. When asked how the adventure went, he replied, "Most of them lived..."