u/Frosty-Asparagus5276

So basically I didn’t hydrate my yeast properly the water was too cold and I didn’t let it sit long enough before introducing to the must I used D47 yeast and started about a week ago now and I did get an immediate reaction with a thin layer of film starting, lees at the bottom slowly building up, and CO2 bubbles slowly bubbling. I did make an error by not getting hydrometer readings since I just got it in the mail today (won’t make that mistake again).

I’ve noticed other peoples meads tend to bubble more and film up a little bit more and I’m worried that I’m getting slow fermentation because I didn’t hydrate the yeast properly.

I’m not super stressed about it because I have more honey and now have a hydrometer so if it would be better off chucking it and starting over that’s fine but would it be good to rehydrate some more yeast and add it with a little more SNA? Or am I just getting first parent syndrome and making a mountain out of nothing. Appreciate any advice given thank you.

I’ve DM’ed probably around 6 sessions at this point and they’ve all been in little homebrew settings.

I’ve purposely made them pretty linear not only because it makes it easier to make things up from session to session but also because my players are also very new to dnd and it makes it easier on them to have the session/story be pretty much planned out from the start but one of my players brought up possibly wanting more of an open world experience.

I’m not super confident nor do I have the time to be able to create an entire setting and world from scratch that’s deeps and detailed enough to be an interesting “open world” campaign. So I was wondering: what do modules look like from the DM side? I’ve never really looked at one and I’m interested in starting a longer campaign in a prebuilt world. Ideally it would be easy to follow for beginner players and feel open with a good mix of combat and RP encounters.

TLDR: What do you think would be a good beginner module and what does it actually look like to run a game from a module?