What about the Traveller world-creation system that sometimes provided seemingly contradictory conditions?
I can attest that trying to solve the contradictions drove me in interesting directions when I was writing for JTAS. That was true to the point that I deliberately restricted myself to the known-to-be-broken sector numbers generated by Digest Group back in the late 80s just because I enjoyed where I ended up.
The readers ate it up too. Some of the results are still in JTAS' top ten rated articles of all time.
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Date: 2009-01-24 02:04 am (UTC)I can attest that trying to solve the contradictions drove me in interesting directions when I was writing for JTAS. That was true to the point that I deliberately restricted myself to the known-to-be-broken sector numbers generated by Digest Group back in the late 80s just because I enjoyed where I ended up.
The readers ate it up too. Some of the results are still in JTAS' top ten rated articles of all time.