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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8695696" data-attributes="member: 6779310">I forgot to mention: It's very easy to add Dune influences into Traveller - Herbert, Asimov, Heinlein, Niven, and Pournelle all were very actively influencing each other. But what one adds from Dune potentially breaks heavily the mechanical limits of the game. Dune's Faufreluches caste system is very rigid, and upward movement across the various breakpoints requires marriage or adoption. THe Bene Gesserit have very limited psionics, and not a good mesh with Traveller's. The Navigators do not fold space; they feel the needed path out to safely have the heighliner's Holtzman field. The face dancers would be another.It's also worth noting that, Traveller, as a collection of games, gets more broad and yet more focused every edition until MGT1. Which tried (and failed) to establish a pure mechanical system divorced of the OTU. The OTU tropes are baked into the character gen, including the promotion of social status into the nobility (thus avoiding being a caste system.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 8695696, member: 6779310"] I forgot to mention: It's very easy to add Dune influences into Traveller - Herbert, Asimov, Heinlein, Niven, and Pournelle all were very actively influencing each other. But what one adds from Dune potentially breaks heavily the mechanical limits of the game. Dune's Faufreluches caste system is very rigid, and upward movement across the various breakpoints requires marriage or adoption. THe Bene Gesserit have very limited psionics, and not a good mesh with Traveller's. The Navigators do not fold space; they feel the needed path out to safely have the heighliner's Holtzman field. The face dancers would be another. It's also worth noting that, Traveller, as a collection of games, gets more broad and yet more focused every edition until MGT1. Which tried (and failed) to establish a pure mechanical system divorced of the OTU. The OTU tropes are baked into the character gen, including the promotion of social status into the nobility (thus avoiding being a caste system.) [/QUOTE]

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