BAB arrived

For what it's worth... My Big Azz Book arrived today. Not sure where to start though. Off the top of my head, I would guess we need to come up with some setting we are going to use or make up some guidelines or something....  Something to guide what our characters might be like. 

I have been looking at mine for about two weeks now and still scratching my head. Someone is going to have to make some spreadsheets quickly for this game and make them available. I have a love/hate relation with the book. It is needlessly complicated in spots, endless tables that explain why he did what he did, but don't really belong there. TONS of tables and crap, did I mention that? Entire sections feel incomplete. The book desperately needs an editor. I found error after error, flow of the information is all over the place, needless stuff. A person to say, "Hey you might want to reconsider this section or remove it completely" would have helped this book immensely. The bottom line for me: its needlessly complicated, certain sections feel incomplete, it is not "ready to play" from just using the book, needlessly long, 90% of the tables could be removed and it desperately needs an editing.

I was just going to tell you:&nbsp; what may help is that some people have already created some on-web utilities.&nbsp; I generated an entire sector in seconds, which I will tailor since it is a border area of two dissimilar governments: <a href="http://heldenhaufen.de/T5/" rel="nofollow">http://heldenhaufen.de/T5/</a> &nbsp; It is an ingenious community, is it not?&nbsp; Hot damn, this will save me some time!&nbsp; I might even be able to digest the rules and run a game IN MY LIFETIME without resorting to geneering or anagathics.&nbsp; Just like the thirst for better game graphics boosted desktop computer&nbsp;performance, will the thirst for longer RPG campaigns boost lifespan research?&nbsp; The best thing to upgrade is yourself! The official discussion group of Traveller is "Citizens of the Imperium".&nbsp;&nbsp;You may have to register to see most messages, but you can&nbsp;get T5 errata (semi-official version 0.6 available for download), and more without it: <a href="http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/forumdisplay.php?f=23" rel="nofollow">http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/forumdisplay.php?f=23</a>

Oh, man, even more generators with links compiled&nbsp;here: <a href="http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=29563&amp;page=2" rel="nofollow">http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=29563&amp;page=2</a>