This is sort of a monster I had an idea for independent of Dresden Files, and wondered how to pull it off. Because it relates to Magic, I'm wondering how it might work, let alone if the Council would get windo fit.

It's sort of like mortals making themselves into something like Red Court vampires, but not.

You have mortals who use blood for "Blood magic". This blood allows them to do things to themselves, typically using supernatural physical powers (strength, speed, etc). To do this, they invoke a Totem - not necessarily a Spirit, but they tap into the existing nature of certain blood drinking animals to get the ball rolling. Ticks, mosquitos, leeches, flies, that sort of thing. This slowly changes their appearances to mimic their totems.

So you might have a humanoid with wings and a probosis, or change its hand into a leech, able to take a beating. They can crank up their physical prowess by tapping into the power of the blood they store (like Red Courts and the blood in their stomach). So they very well would have a feeding dependency for their powers.

In Full Moon, Lycanthropes are described as channeling a spirit of rage. The spirit sort of takes over.

In the RPG, Lycanthropes' powers are controlled by the moon.

What the heck?

I know that this board supports PbP games. But is there a place on the net where Dresden games are being played real-time? Using voice chat and some software for dice rolling and such?

I'm considering writing some urban fantasy, and what I want to write about is a main character who is not the badass. Not the guy with the kickass powers. He is the Useful Side Character, with a useful but not flashy skillset. Like a precognitive, or someone who is good at information gathering (like Morty the Ectomancer from The Dresden Files). Who... inadvertently gets dragged into the mess.

So I hit on an idea: a lawyer. Think someone who knows the Unseelie Acccords forwards and backwards, who knows the rules and politics that govern within the various Powers' organizations (the rules that faeries abide by among faeries or rules that members of the Red Court abides by within the Red Court).

The wall that I hit is: why would this person be needed?

Take the Accords as an example. If you're a signer (or a representative of the signer), then you don't need a lawyer; you speak for yourself, and you should understand how the Accords pertains to you and what you can do. If you're NOT a signer, then you don't really qualify. And if you're dealing within your own organization, why involve a third party?

Not to mention how much a third party knowing your system could be a threat.

Even if the character serves as a negotiator's role, or has the ability to Bind oaths/deals/agreements (think how the faerie have power over someone who owes them, now apply that to any who seek him out) in a form of agreed-to Geas, I still think that this character would not have a lot of Use in the supernatural world.

Does my idea have merit? Am I not seeing the forest for the trees? How do I make this idea work, or am I right in second guessing it? Help!

So, earlier I posted a thread seeking to set up an online game. After doing so, it occurred to me that there likely IS a place where Fate games (SotC/Starblazer) are being ran online. I just don't know where.

Is there any place out there to advertise for online Fate games? Or play them? And any particular programs/venues that work well for them? I imagine MapTools is a bit unneccessarily complex to use for Fate.

For that matter, is there a Fate mailing list or Yahoo group out there somewhere?

Hi! Are you a DFRPG playtester? Would you be interested in running a demo at a convention?

I would like to play in such a game. I personally am hoping someone would put a demo down at [ur=http://hypericon.info/]Hypericon[/url] (June 5-7, Nashville), but the point is still there about other cons, especially those in New England.

Anyone game?

So, since the RPG itself is long in coming, I thought that maybe we could just brainstorm in general about possible adventures.

Granted, many of ye olde adventures have some connection to the location you set your game, or your players, but some may purely be 'plug and play' type adventures.

I find that good inspiration for this could be old episodes of The X-Files, or Kolchek the Nighthunter. However, both of these assume a level of "Mundane trying to prove it's supernatural", so in the Dresdenverse, that isn't necessary.

Earlier posts have said that the RPG will have Evocation and Thamutology, and Faith Magic. Will there be anything else?

For example, the Shadowman had somehow learned a demon's name, ergo letting him use the demon as a weapon. Will the book have information on demon names and how to use them?

Harry managed to make a deal with his fairy godmother to gain power. Will the book discuss how to get power from outside sources (and what those powers are)?

How about Mind magic? Necromancery? Ectomancery (Summoning and speaking to ghosts)?