Nice to see that Marc’s kept this up there for free. It’s a great version if folks don’t have the originals and/or want to play a great game!

I don’t know much about DC100, but, to me, open world means there are multiple choices and multiple things going on. Hooking them from B2 to DC100, that feels like a single funnel? From point A, go to Point B, although that path might have 3 diff variants, they all end up in the same place?

I try to give players in a new campaign 3 different things to do. 3 hooks/paths. 3 factions. 3 locations to explore (whether a dungeon, outdoor setpiece, another town) and a homebase.

You can make each of those 3 things another module. So DC100 for 1 hex/location after B2, and two other modules for two other locations.

Then put them in their home base (a village or perhaps even the Keep from B2) and dangle those hooks to each of the locations - rumors, someone actively recruiting, a physical object pointing in a direction, etc…

That’s just how I would do it and have done it.

I tried a Creality Ender 3 a couple of years ago. Struggled a lot, for me, it required a lot of aftermarket replacements to make it work well. I sold it about 6 mo later.

In Mar, I bought an Anycubic Kobra. Out of the box, worked like a champ and has continued to. None of the struggles I had with the Ender. Only add on was a sensor to let me know when I’m out of filament.

You’ll probably hear from folks who bought an Ender and had great success, and folks who struggled w/a Kobra, though. It’s like an automobile… you’re going to hear good and bad stories for each model.

Honestly, I read a lot of articles and just found what fit my use case, expectations and budget. Your first one will definitely be a learning experience.

Good luck!

Try this as a starting point? https://campaignwiki.org/osr/ It’s a list of a metric ton of OSR blogs.

Funny enough, I’ve gone in the reverse direction.

But I think if I were to do that, I would: be up front with players, try to mask a lot of the mechanics (unless the switch was to bring crunch to the players), be patient and willing to backtrack, have some after-game-discussions on how things went.

I played “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons” on the Intellivision that my g/f had at the time. Most everyone else had Atari 2600s, so it felt rare (at the time) to play on it. It had a funky controller with weird keypads and a disc that was like a joystick, but hard to play with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Cloudy_Mountain

Aren’t the batteries and electric motors driving the grid fins at the top of the booster? That and the entire interstage are gonna get blasted with the thrust plume of three Raptors. Reinforcing them enough that it doesn’t affect planned reusability targets could take a bigger bite out of the payload than they get from hot staging.

That was my first thought, or that the header tank up at the top might not like being heated like that.

I’m sure they’ll figure out pretty quickly if it works or not.

Going to be interested in how they make that work with the intended recoverability of the booster. Excitement guaranteed, for sure!

I think Soyuz boosters currently do hot staging, the interstage is open IIRC.