On Jul 24, 2015, at 10:59 PM, Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:

> On 7/24/2015 10:34 PM, Christopher Hilton wrote:

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>> When I end up playing in one of these handwavium settings, I sometime wonder aloud where we get the unicorn blood needed to lubricate the drive.
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>> -- Chris
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> Personally, I play RPGs for escapism.  When Traveller introduced TNE and tried to quantify everything with 20th century knowledge and physics, I lost interest.  I want adventure, not physics.  I want to play something that's less "Interstellar" and a little bit more Star Wars/BSG/Firefly/B5 where I don't have to worry about whether what I'm doing is breaking some Law or Theory.
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> But that's me.  I need a break from real life so I game or write.
>

I don't disagree, I do the same thing. I'm assuming that this thread is about some peoples need to neuter the tech in Traveller so the players can't do something really anti-social like run a Type S to 0.2c and then smack it into a world, or, to steal from Niven, start a fusion drive a tens of meters over an some sophant's inhabited home and hover for a few minutes. Is that the case?

-- Chris