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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arwink" data-source="post: 2270051" data-attributes="member: 2292">The concept of the Prescient Duelist owes a little bit more to the Matrix than it does Equilibrium, largely because I hadn't yet seen the latter when I was writing the book (that's since been rectified).The real seed for inspiration is an old manga called Cybercity Oedo 2020 which I saw in the early nineties.  One of the episodic bad guys in the series was a computer that could predict reactions based on over three thousand variables every second.  During the fight scene they kept cutting to the computers POV, which showed you the ghostly after-image of a hundred different heroes moving back and forth as it scanned possible futures.  That stuck in my head, and became the basis for the prescient duelist when one of my players elected to play a psionic gunslinger in a campaign a few years back.</blockquote>