The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Will Harry get back to basics?
Kindler:
--- Quote from: forumghost on March 05, 2018, 05:47:39 PM ---The problem being that even 'normal' threats are a big danger to Dresden, even with his big "Power Boost" from being the Winter Knight.
Like how in CD he needed to be rescued from a couple of pixies.
Or how in SG he needed to be saved from Formor Red Shirts.
Harry just... isn't really all that. Don't let his in-universe rep fool you.
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I'm talking about a geared-up, ready-for-a-fight Dresden, the one who killed several thousand low-level Red Court Vampires with a single shot at Chichen Itza (though admittedly he had help, and a full minute or two to pull it off). His (arguably) biggest weakness right now is that he has neither shield bracelet nor blasting rod, just a staff (and against the Fomor Red Shirts, he didn't even have that). That's been partly necessary to rebalance the conflicts since he became the Winter Knight, since he can now reliably deck most people across a room. But if he had his whole arsenal back, I think he'd be pretty OP. You'd have to catch him unaware (or pull a Kincaid and nail him from a mile away), or there's a better-than-even chance you get your butt booted.
forumghost:
I suppose. Which brings us back to the thread topic- Harry probably won't be getting much of his stuff back for at least another book, because otherwise Jim will have a hard time making Harry lose to Mooks 4 chapters in so that he's half dead for the finale.
Kindler:
--- Quote from: forumghost on March 05, 2018, 06:26:42 PM ---I suppose. Which brings us back to the thread topic- Harry probably won't be getting much of his stuff back for at least another book, because otherwise Jim will have a hard time making Harry lose to Mooks 4 chapters in so that he's half dead for the finale.
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True enough. It depends on the scale of the conflict, I suppose. Can't remember where I read it, but someone mentioned a Word of Jim that Peace Talks would be the most "magically violent" book so far, though, so I'd imagine Harry'd have to have something beyond his staff.
wardenferry419:
I thought that many of his magical items were crutches that enabled him to control what he couldn't control.
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on March 05, 2018, 08:59:01 PM ---I thought that many of his magical items were crutches that enabled him to control what he couldn't control.
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Not crutches so much as tools. Is a hammer a crutch because it let's you drive a nail into material you couldn't with bare hands? The energy for driving the nail still comes from your muscles, but the hammer makes that energy more efficient and makes it do something you can't do unaided. Is a crowbar a crutch because it lets you pry open something you couldn't do without it? After all, it's still you providing the energy, surely you could learn to do without the crowbar...well, no, a lot of times you can't.
Yeah, probably there's somebody somewhere that could drive that nail in with bare hands...at least into some materials, sometimes, if the nail is the right kind. But in general, the hammer amplifies your powers.
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