The idea just popped up in my head. If the right people would wind up in the know. They would be eager to use people with these unique talents in their operations doing whatever spec. ops do. gather intel, deal with threats but of course in this case they'd deal with supernatural threats as well as the regular threats a country faces.

Has anyone done anything like this?

While waiting for the new Dresden files book I've been reading the Iron Druid series. And it's got some fun stuff in there. Most interesting is the Druidic magic. Which I think could fall easily under a category of sponsored magic.

But there's two items of power that might be interesting to incorporate in to a dresden files game.

There's Morreltach, which is enchanted to kill any foe with even the slightest injury.
And Fraggeras, a sword that can cut through any armor, conjure wind and when held to someone's throat.

Fraggeras would be fairly easy to stat giving access to offensive channeling (air), a high weapon rating and giving you the option to easily interrogate someone when they are taken out. Maybe the weapon as some aspects to reflect it's incredible sharpness.

But Morreltach, I've got no idea how to stat such a deadly weapon. One consequence and you're boned. How would you do this?

I'm wondering, aside from the myriad of dangers, the risks of getting lost/eaten or otherwise wind up in some charlie foxtrot, how hard is it just to open a way to the nevernever?

Harry specifically says that it's not something he could do easily. Even in the more recent books the effort seems to tire him out quite a bit. Or it's implied anyway.
So how many shifts of power would be needed to open a way?

Also, is that done with a ritual or with a special kind of evocation?

The title pretty much explains it all, if a character takes inhuman toughness+recovery, how much refresh bonus does he get from having the catch be fire?

It falls under the category.
"If the Catch is bypassed by something
that anyone could reasonably get access
to, but usually doesn’t carry on them
(like cold iron), you get a +2."

Is that it? Or would the secrecy factor be able to get another +1 refresh?

My best friend and I where discussing DFRP yesterday and he voiced a concern to me that I find very hard to place. And I'm wondering if anyone else might have encountered this phenomenon. And if so, what kind of effect has it had on your game and how did you deal with it?

The idea my friend has is that because you're playing a game based on these novels an inherent expectancy will exist with your players that these novels will have a direct impact on whatever you run in your games and vice versa, what the PC's do in a game can have a profound effect on the novels.
Also that you're playing in a world where there are all these heroes like Harry, Karrin, Bob, Michael, Mab, Titania etc. And that creates the expectation that you will interact with these characters at some point because the world is very small. Though it's harder for wizards with the Murphy effect you can get to nearly any place in the world within a day. So even if you set your game somewhere away from Chicago, the players can decide to pack up shop and move in to some of the appartments above Harry's own.

He thinks, this will inevitably lead to dissapointment among the players. Because once you start making your own ripples in the world you're going to change the setting so much that the original timeline of events no longer make sense. IE: During the war with the Red Court Mab bites the bullet so Harry won't become the winter knight but instead has to take up the coin or perform the darkhallow somehow.
Or when you're running the 'iconic' characters of the game as the GM the way you portray them will never be 'right' compared to how they act because of various reasons, mainly that the GM isn't going to be Jim Butcher and (s)he'll portray the characters colored by his or her own perceptions and ideas.

He figured that the only way to avoid these dissapointments would be to set the game in such a way that it would be impossible for us to meet any of these iconic characters by moving the time during which the game takes place forward or backwards in time to a point where Harry and his gang haven't been born yet or are already dead.

Though I can see his standpoint from an academic view point. I can't see it actually happening that these effects or feelings would ruin a game. Unless these iconics are used in such a ham-fisted way that displays them as 'the awesome guys you can never be'.

Since one of my players is becoming a daddy for the 2nd time there's a brief break in my normal game and I was thinking of running a short dresden files adventure.

I don't want to spend a whole session generating characters, sorting out chargen rules with my players.

Does anyone have any simple submerged pregen characters or does anyone know a place to DL them?

Preferably with brief explanations of the powers of the characters so there's no need to look them up during play.

Hey guys,

I've finally managed to goad someone in to gm-ing a game in new orleans and I'm gonna play an apprentice wizard, or rather a sorceror looking for an apprentice.

One of the things about the character is that she's dug herself a hole, and it turned out that there was a snake at the bottom. Apep (or apophis as an aspect or servant of Set) and he tricked her through her inexperience to give up her name in exchange for his help. Which means she's wound up with sponosred magic with a darkness/desert kind of theme.

How would this sponsored magic work out? How would it help her magic and what sort of tricks would it give her?

The sheet's still under development here.

Hey folks, I'm pondering a character who's specific flavor of magic involves calling on to all sorts of nasties to do his fighting for him.
From calling swarms of bats, insects or a larger animal or two to eat the people who he doesn't like.
And who can do it at the speed of evocation.

Would anyone have a good idea to make something like this suitable for a player character?