The book in this case is Fate Core, Fate Accelerated, or Fate Condensed, the book which literally contains the game we're talking about here.

It is with mounting horror and depression that I watch post after post after post after post after post over on Reddit ask "How do I do

<x>

in game?" or "Can I run a game set in

<setting>

?" as if there isn't a chapter in each book (well, maybe not Accelerated) explaining in detail how to implement pretty much any damn concept you need for whichever game you want to run. The best place to look for that stuff is Chapter 11 in Fate Core, "Extras." Have they not read that far?

Hearing someone else complain about Fate's magic system, I came up with the "Terry's Hardware Store" Analogy.

Imagine a hardware store. The lumber yard in back has pretty much any kind of wood you might want for your project, and the team on the saws can cut it into whatever shape you need to make that project happen. There's an incredibly wide assortment o