Bad things are known to happen when someone says, "Here. Hold my beer."
I've actually seen a couple of those kind of incidents, which are VERY popular in military messes (well, really, the BBQ events, but it's close as to make little difference)
In the US "I played it out of the box" when referring to a rules set would mean totally un-modified, no house rules or errata, err official changes, yeah that.
So the Americans would read Traveller: out of the box to be the most basic edition or the first published version. not some crazy never to be attempted rule mash up.
Ah, yes, "out of the box" and "out of your box" do have rather different meanings
Although if you mix them up, it can make for some low-level hilarity :devil:
