On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:

Phil, it seems to me TU is about what players can imagine, rather than what they cannot. Design and designer should not stand in the way of that.


I think you're getting confused between the Official Traveller Universe and Your Traveller Universe. Marc Miller rules the former, individual Referees the latter. 

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