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Originally Posted by jeff_wilson
This is the same as the premise of STAR WARS (1977), where everyone contributes to the Force, Jedi are underground, and Vader is busy Force-choking rivals.
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On the other hand, ObiWan Kenobi is a hero. Regardless, Marc Miller has said that Star Wars came out too late to really influence the original design of Traveller. At best, Star Wars and Traveller drew from the same source material in similar ways.
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Originally Posted by MrTim
Didn't Marc Miller say somewhere that the limitations on psi were entirely for game balance purposes?
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I would love to see a cite to this.
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Originally Posted by thrash
The cited sources are strongly literary. The only exceptions are Star Wars and Star Trek, which I think we can agree are only peripheral influences at best.
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I have to modify this: in his White Dwarf #23 interview, Marc Miller said, "Movies and television particularly affected me."