Here's where we'll gossip over new arcs, what happened between sessions, plans, plots, and a general OOC thread.
Would someone like to pre-emptively take Logging and/or Stats roles for this group?
Iddy brought up a neat xls sheet for doing characters.
Having fiddled between excel, pdf, and plaintext sheets, I've largely come to the conclusion that I do not care what you use on your side (Whatever is easiest), but I vastly prefer an end result that can be placed directly in a forum post. This allows me to scan over easily mid-session the entire set of character sheets in a single tab. I encourage folks to post helpers here, hopefully we can get some good ones out, but yeah, regardless I still prefer the end result to come out as something plaintext or embedded.
http://inspiredpress.net/BESM3_Generator.zip
Link for generator mentioned. Excel sheet, not pretty, but does all the math for you.
http://goofansite.game-host.org/index.php/remository/func-startdown/142/
Same thing for Open Office users.
Anyhow, there is a serious tool for 2nd ed, but yeah, nothing similar for 3rd. This sheet will get ye most of the way there though, it just leaves it in a printable fashion, rather than a postable one.