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Thinking about buying FATE Condensed, but I would probably prefer to have a physical copy to go along with the pdf. But in the past I bought FATE Accelerated as a physical book off Amazon, and the first time I bought it it fell apart at the bindings before I even got halfway through the book. Like the glue was falling apart. Kinda put it aside for a bit and got into Savage Worlds instead, and then eventually maybe a year later I decided to give Accelerated another try and decided to just go ahead and purchase a new physical copy since it was pretty inexpensive (like $5) for the physical book still. This time I bought it directly from Evil Hat so the pdf would come with it. The book didn’t last through the first read-through, same as before. The pages would just fall out like it was put together with notepad glue binding; like they were supposed to fall out one consecutive sheet at a time. Kinda got frustrated with the quality control measures over at Evil Hat and went back to Savage Worlds again.

Recently I’ve been listening to a really fun actual play podcast where they run FATE Core, and wouldn’t mind giving it another try. I have the hardcover of FATE Core, which I bought from Evil Hat the same time I bought the second Accelerated book, and it seems to be just better quality and held up really well, but the book is just a lot of material that you seem to have to push through to get to the basic meat of the mechanics.

So maybe it was just an issue of their hardcover binding process versus their softcover process. Or maybe Evil Hat just had a bad batch run on their softcover printing process and I got stuck in the middle of it both times, I dunno.

I was just wondering, since I noticed that Condensed is a softcover book… Now that the physical book has been in your hands for a while, has the book held together pretty well? Has it started to fall apart?

The book’s only $8, but if it’s gonna fall apart while I’m reading it, I might as well just save the money for a beer or two instead while I try and wade through my old Core book, as the rules are basically the same, as I understand it anyway, with a few tweaks made.

Also, did anyone else have their Accelerated books fall apart quickly or was I just unlucky?

A beekeeper friend of mine accidentally overheated 10 gallons of honey, making it unusable for his purposes (mostly selling it). I bought it off of him for a song.

I started out making beer once in a while in five gallon batches, but I’ve made two 5 gallon batches of mead with regular honey in the past, and both turned out well, so I’m no expert in mead making by any means yet but I feel like I’ve got the basics down well enough to make a decent batch that hasn’t disappointed me for my own consumption yet.

As I understand it, the burnt honey can be used to make a mead called a “ bochet”, which should have a roasted/toasted marshmallow flavor. The bochet recipes I found on a quick search all seem to just use straight honey, no fruits, or flavors, or anything. I can’t imagine I can’t add different elements for adjusting flavors though.

I was thinking maybe a pumpkin mead would be nice. Maybe cinnamon? Possibly chocolate? Idk…

If you had about five gallon buckets of burnt honey at your disposal to just experiment around with, or if you already have experience already working with burnt honey, what would you recommend? Just the plain honey? Something else?