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Originally Posted by Asmodai
It may not be to your taste, but I don't think it's a fair point. It would be like criticizing D&D because there weren't actually dragons in medieval Europe.
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No, it's like that at all (and besides, dragons are recorded in medieval history - and quite a lot of them <a href="http://www.genesispark.com/genpark/history/history.htm">according to some</a>*).
What it would be like is a D&D world with mobile phones, ICE vehicles and assault rifles. These would be anachronistic. Likewise I consider an SF game, movie or book that has unaltered humans 3,000 years in the future to be equally anachronistic.
Not that Megatraveller's anachronisms it had any particular influence on my ratings; about 0.5 on a style issue, if that.
* The people in question are wacky, but the references are interesting.