It's not Traveller? OK, Why not??

[Rhialto the Marvelous]

Awesome example, far trader!

Personally, I do am partial to sentient, planet-sized oceans, i.e. Solaris (the Lem book and the Tarkovskij movie, not the Clooney movie, bleargh).

Also, the Xiang in 2300AD. Maybe.

 

[Sifu Blackirish]

Does anyone have a comment on this?

Alternative World Generation systems

I know it's old, but did his tweak remove most of the nonsensical results of book 3?

BTW, thanks very much Malenfant, for the link to the Active Topics portion of the board. It's now my new home page!