You had said "Allegedly they can shoot down Russian planes, because their targeting systems have longer range."

My post was to share information to indicate that is not so - F16 does not have longer range.

The rest, you and Tom are in agreement.

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.

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Day After Tomorrow - the real, inverted (Hot not Cold) version.

Heh. Nope, 30something in the 90s. Just enjoyed good sci-fi then :D

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

It's a good search target for what has happened up to 12 Jun 23... after that? I can go incognito to reddit, get what I need then come back to here and continue using this as a resource and share what I've got.

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.

You can get the entire Classic Traveller set - all the classic books from 1977 through the mid 80s - all the supplements, modules, even the board game rules/maps/counters - from FFE for $35. You can request a flash drive or CDRom. https://www.farfuture.net/ - the Classic Traveller CDRom.

The Facsimile book is good for the basics. The flash drive is an amazing resource.

I had the original little black books from 1978 or 79 - I was never able to get anyone to play! It was only in the past month that I picked CT back up and have put together a series of games that people are playing in.

@inkican Just asking if those are on-topic for the scifi magazine, or if you'd prefer them elsewhere?

@inkican What about sci-fi related games (boardgames, rpgs, video games)?

idk, when I've watched snippets or clips, it just doesn't appeal to me? I always got the impression, to me, that it looked like "Friends in space".

The fandom hasn't bothered me, everything has a rabid fandom. You should see the frothing at the mouths when I dare to say that I liked the new Starbuck as much as I liked the old Starbuck from BSG 2003/1978.