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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 5519743" data-attributes="member: 11760">It's not too earthy, really -- Traveller has lots of people using cutlasses and sabers, and energy weapons are more the exception than the rule -- but I want to avoid what I call the &quot;Firefly problem,&quot; where making your thematic elements TOO obvious risks jarring the audience/players out of the world.In Firefly, it was &quot;I know this is a Western in space, but wouldn't some of these problems be solved with the technology they obviously have?&quot; I'm definitely up for including lots of Caribbean pirate elements -- hence these two threads -- but I don't want this to feel too cutesy, but rather have this stuff inform the game world in a more organic way.NOTE: I love Firefly, but I'm talking about the response some viewers and critics had. It wasn't a response I felt personally, but it's also something I don't want happening in my game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 5519743, member: 11760"] It's not too earthy, really -- Traveller has lots of people using cutlasses and sabers, and energy weapons are more the exception than the rule -- but I want to avoid what I call the "Firefly problem," where making your thematic elements TOO obvious risks jarring the audience/players out of the world. In Firefly, it was "I know this is a Western in space, but wouldn't some of these problems be solved with the technology they obviously have?" I'm definitely up for including lots of Caribbean pirate elements -- hence these two threads -- but I don't want this to feel too cutesy, but rather have this stuff inform the game world in a more organic way. NOTE: I love Firefly, but I'm talking about the response some viewers and critics had. It wasn't a response I felt personally, but it's also something I don't want happening in my game. [/QUOTE]

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