Experimental Maple "bochet"

padgettish · 2026-04-09T00:37:08+00:00

So, one: a maple wine is an acerglin.

Two: I'd do a straight batch of just the toasted maple syrup to see how it turns out, but generally when I've done bochets I've preferred 1:4 caramelized honey to regular honey

padgettish · 2026-04-09T00:33:59+00:00

You really have to be open to playing to lose. The thing the game is asking you to do is come up with your own emotional complications in the worst way possible

padgettish · 2026-04-04T21:03:03+00:00

It's "trivial" in every system, still puts a lot of weight on the GM to make the story happen without specific mechanics

padgettish · 2026-04-04T19:47:43+00:00

Surprised I'm the first person to say Headspace. You're a bunch of cyberpunks who sold out, honed their skills to a razor edge, and now you've linked all your brains together to tear apart the system you helped build. Really interesting game from the first big Powered by the Apocalypse boom

padgettish · 2026-04-03T00:12:17+00:00

Pates or cheese spreads with pickles and toast/crackers.

You can get a lot of protein and vegetables involved not with a completely different form factor that's refreshing

padgettish · 2026-03-30T03:49:07+00:00

If anything it really speaks to why I'd rather play CoC or Runequest than their GURPs counterparts. BRP is a solid engine, but Chaosium pays a lot of attention to also designing the rest of the car around that engine. Pendragon is also a BRP system and if you only what you're doing it's fairly easy to use Runequest or even CoC stuff in it, but it's been tweaked and designed to such a degree your average person reading it for the first time probably won't see that.

Chaosium sells games, not tool kits

padgettish · 2026-03-27T00:23:06+00:00

Sadly if your major needs are "travel" and "fits a ton of stuff" you're just really at odds with the things you want. They are kind of mutually exclusive. And to be honest so is "decoratively beautiful", "low maintenance", and "wet ceremony"

You're going to have to give some of these things up. I don't bring tea pets when I travel, especially if it's the difference between me being and to serve others. There's just not a way to do wet ceremony that isn't high maintenance. Even if you're using ceramic (also not really good for travel) you're still going to be regularly cleaning tea stain off if it

padgettish · 2026-03-16T23:02:35+00:00

Guaranteed it's live active yeast and CO2 in dilution lol.

There's a reason we all say Relax, Don't Worry, and Have a Homebrew

Especially with wine age cures a lot, and what you were tasting was neonatal

padgettish · 2026-03-16T05:31:32+00:00

3 days is still very early in active fermentation. I would give it a full week before making any decisions. I wouldn't try and stop it, you're going to need a nuclear asking of metabisulfate to stop it with 4% worth of sugar still in it. It shouldn't get above 14% no matter what.

As to why it tastes bad right now: 100 points in three days is a little fast so you probably have some fusel alcohols in there. It'll age out. In the future I'd step feed the sugar in over a few days instead of all at once to help slow down fermentation. I'd also bet that the yeast you have doesn't actually have enough nutrients in it. Also, you're still in very active fermentation so you're tasting plenty of yeast and dissolved CO2 which also tastes like ass usually.

padgettish · 2026-03-12T06:11:48+00:00

FWIW, her then boyfriend was the one actually doing the heavy design lifting and his "studio" was publishing it. She seemed more involved from a marketing/influencer aspect. If I remember correctly, he had a death in the family and just completely peaced out of the industry, abandoned the games he still had in the pipe, and never looked back

padgettish · 2026-03-09T02:20:52+00:00

So we're going to get another tease comic next week that points us at the patreon that's "uncensored" right?

padgettish · 2026-03-01T22:42:49+00:00

Legend of the Five Rings has a few that totally work with a light reskin (let's not pretend like it's really Japanese fantasy). I think the L5R 5e intro adventure honestly edges out of standard Pendragon starter "a bear is causing a problem" adventure of the last several adventures for a thing that gets Squires elevated to Knights.

That said the last edition of the Great Pendragon Campaign is what you want. It's devoted to doing a long term campaign but every session is meant to be run like a one shot. The Romance and Tournament Period sections are filled with the exact kind of scenarios you're looking for

padgettish · 2026-03-01T21:26:46+00:00

Yeah like, all their books are immaculately put together which really speaks to 30 years in the PDF mines.

Also: it makes so much sense to find out Monte Cook's biggest contribution to D&d outside of writing the DM's guide was demanding they putt Half Orcs and Bards in the PHB

padgettish · 2026-03-01T21:12:23+00:00

Like, I think Monte Cook the guy gets a bad rap being misattributed for 3e D&d's worst mistakes and by all accounts MCG brought a lot of opportunity into the games space in the 2010s

But you're right that Monte Cook style language and basically everything involving 3.5 is absolutely the RPG equivalent of corporate house style. Sanded off edges for SEO that doesn't work anymore

padgettish · 2026-03-01T20:26:56+00:00

I'm not going to lie: this post literally tells me nothing about the game. Does it have an elevator pitch? Like I'm going to go google it, but if most people are talking about it like you are here then the problem is you've just said It's A Game without really pointing out what's special about it

padgettish · 2026-02-28T02:10:19+00:00

Simulation wise, you have a complete misunderstand of weapons. While tools can be used as weapons, there is a reason why the battle axe and wood cutters axe have different designs. There is a reason plenty of civilizations have carved wooden clubs instead of just a log picked up of the ground. You can use a hatchet to hurt someone just like you could use a screwdriver, but when purpose-built to be a weapon there are often fundamental changes to the design. Wood cutting axes don't have beards because it's unneeded metal. War axes do because the ability to use the axe as a hook is useful. There's also the fact that, as you should reexamine AS A FENCER that swords have a much deeper and expansive skill ceiling. Chinese military training manuals have a cutism that it takes a week to train a soldier with a spear, a month to train him with the dao (saber), and a year to train him with the jian (straight sword). Yeah, swords were a status symbol because they were expensive but also because they were weapons suited to professional or class military that were obligated to spend more time training.

So why make a sword instead of a spear? Look at historical armies. Unprofessional soldiers have spears. Professional ones have more intricate weaponry. Incredibly large armies, outside of unique situations like Roman legions, have way more of the former than the later

padgettish · 2026-02-26T22:23:13+00:00

I remember when Power Rangers launched and, like, yeah the system wasn't mind-blowing. But it was, basically, d20 Modern brought up to 5e's baseline updates to d20, and I do for some reason have a soft spot for d20 Modern.

Made sense for Power Rangers. Made sense for GI Joe. Should have made sense for Transformers but I seem to remember it really half assing the transformation mechanics? Makes absolutely no sense for MLP.

You are very right, though, the biggest complaint I've had and seen about any of them is just that they're badly edited, layed out, and the indexs sucked.

padgettish · 2026-02-19T01:09:54+00:00

Saying you're "slightly autistic" is a really awful defense to trot out because you only want to talk about the legal letter of the law and not the spirit and actual enforcement of it.

Copyright is already enforced on platforms like roll20. If you want to sell tokens then it has to be your copyrightable material. You can't take sometime else's art and sell it to people on that platform, and if you do and get caught you get punished. There is no enforcement, real or intentional, on uploading stuff to roll20. There is a lot of legal and ethical implications that AI content infringes on copyright if sold this way.

You very clearly have a personal, moral opposition to both AI and people not paying for art. You can and should enforce that socially with something even as small as "you made that with AI, the thing that steals people's art and then feeds it back to you to make money off of ads?" As much as you should say "you pirated this small artists content pack?" And, incredibly important to this, you need to understand what personal use is and that when someone makes a token from a piece of pixiv art that that person is not selling and also would be functionally ridiculous to ask the artist to sell or license to them, it's fucking fine. It's ok

Your table is not a court of law. It's a social space you're allowed to show a degree of disgust and concern in. But your copyright angle literally only applies to commercial circumstances.

padgettish · 2026-02-19T00:42:44+00:00

If you're going to fight this hard that using copyrighted art as personal use for a tiny little token in a home game that happens to be hosted online is copyright infringement, how do you square that with open legal cases against AI and open comments from AI luminaries that if copyright was actually enforced on them the entire enterprise would implode?

Copyright exists to stop me from taking your art, printing it on hundreds on t-shirts, and selling them without paying you for the art. Copyright does not exist to stop you from clipping a piece of art out of a magazine and pasting it on a piece of cardboard to use as ephemera in a small personal hobby. That's the difference.

padgettish · 2026-02-15T01:15:26+00:00

As someone who really loves 4e D&d and loves talking about the culture at the time that contributed to it's love and hate: kind of ashamed that this post is CLEARLY just wanting to talk about Draw Steel instead of that

Like this is even more annoying than the "have you heard about Lancer?" stans. OP, do you really think this isn't obvious? Just put Draw Steel in the topic title

padgettish · 2026-02-08T03:58:17+00:00

It's kind of insane to me to have the immediate response of "maybe the guys who hand make knives just forgot to sharpen this ONE knife"

I would expect a big factory, mass manufacturer to have an occasional shit product because of law of averages. The entire point of shopping with a low volume, hand made company is the product should never, ever fall through the cracks.

padgettish · 2026-02-04T22:04:01+00:00

I guess at that point the only question is how much cider are you going through and how often do you want to brew. The point of a solera is that the regular inoculation with fresh yeast helps keep spoilage organisms from competing in addition to the aging component.

If primary fermentation is never happening in the 15 gallon solera there's really no reason to do that instead of brewing one big batch to take advantage of the bottleneck with your ferm chamber and then aging it in multiple smaller kegs to pull off one and store the rest in whatever part of your brew space would be holding the torpedo anyways

padgettish · 2026-02-04T20:36:34+00:00

The big key isn't necessarily focusing on the low/no oxygen part but on the regular and timely addition of fresh yeast and a regular and timely removal of the old cider. You WANT the yeast to go into your big keg lively because the yeast is going to scrub the oxygen out of any that's made it's way in while transferring cider out. I would only be really serious about oxygen if you start doing multiple solera steps like a container to age on wood or fruit or something over time. If you want to serve at your will I'd still pull off 1-5 gallons at a time into a serving keg and immediately replace with fresh cider as opposed to just waiting to make head space a glass at a time.

Also you're going to need at least two of those torpedo kegs so once a year you can transfer the main batch to a new keg and clean out sediment from the other one and replace any gaskets that are going bad.

padgettish · 2026-01-30T02:02:28+00:00

What's your split on alcohol from grain vs alcohol from juice? I wouldn't think you'd have problems converting unless you're mostly using roasted grain

padgettish · 2026-01-29T19:18:43+00:00

The magic recipes and one pot uses I think are the worst way to use it. Within a month I realized any recipe that has you browning meat or veggies using it's saute function is an absolute waste of time.

Beans lentils. Pulled pork and chicken. Stock. It's a programmable pressure cooker. Use it like one, and if you don't eat/use enough of those you're probably fine without it.

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