Well it would appear that they did sell out and never updated their website. So its on back order and Im back to waiting.

How can this be out of stock everywhere???

Same here, it would have been nice if they had told me it was sold out before I placed the order.

q-workshop.com is selling nice Fudge Dice.
they aren't specifically Dresdenized, but they are pretty.

http://q-workshop.com/products.php?lang=EN&sell_type=DETAL&currency=EUR&category=Special%20Fudge-D6

Those are some awfully expensive dice, $3.17 each on top of $4.95 shipping.

Sigh... still waiting.

I know how you feel, according to UPS they got the billing information for my shipment 7
days ago but Evil Hat still hasn't given them the package.  If the preorder page had told
me it would be more than three weeks after release before they even bothered to ship
it, I would have just bought it retail.

Custom dice get expensive but here is a link for one such site:

http://www.crystalcaste.com/custom.htm

Not so bad if you go in with your whole gaming group.  It's $3 a set if you order 7 or more sets at once.

The funny thing about crystalcaste pricing is that  26 dice are more than five bucks cheaper than buying
25 dice.  Who in their right mind wouldn't save $5.50 and just order one more die, even if they just toss
it in the trash when it shows up?

Yea, in general Adobe isn't very good at working with others, but almost everyone has their reader and personally I've never had need to look into another reader. However, it sounds like this Foxit is a good one, so I'm going to give it a try.

Just wait until you see how fast it loads compared to Acrobat.

Harry very much has Lore.  He has a Lore at good (+3) at Storm Front.  That still doesn't change the fact that he has to use a mystical library (Bob) to do research.

Everyone with Lore does research, it's one of the trappings.  You just trade shifts you missed on your lore check for time in the library to find the answer.  The GM is under no obligation to tell you how much you missed it by so the player might not be sure how long they'll have to search for the right reference.

Normal, non crazy people, normally get their added complexity for thaumaturgy from making skill declarations. 

here's some house rules I've written to clarify making declarations; normally you can make as many skill declarations as the GM and other players will let you get away with.

There is some neat stuff in there for thaumaturgy and the time it could take.

For my own game I've had to cap tags in general.  You can have an accountant with no powers and no combat skills at all end up one shotting a Dragon through skill declarations in an ambush, ending up with 16+ shifts on their stealth check to make them undetectable and generate another 30+ shifts of effect to decapitate Ferrovax with a briefcase.

I made it really simple for my players, you can tag a number of aspects for a single action equal to your Skill + 1; anything more than that and you'll have to spend fate points to invoke.  So a guy with no hand to hand training can only take advantage of one tag at a time in a fistfight unless fate steps in.

So the following situation came up in a recent session: A party of PCs (built at chest deep) ran into some out of control red court vampires (in horrible bat-monster form, no flesh masks).  Our wizard decided to create a magical block against them, then the player said, "Hey, I'll make it a spirit block, making my pentagram (a holy symbol to my character) shine with bright light, to take advantage of the vampire's vulnerability to sunlight and holy stuff.  Wait, does my character even know about that weakness?  Do I need to roll lore first?"

Possibly.  I'd rule that anyone with Lore will know about the catches of anything supernatural you'd rate as commonly occurring within the supernatural world, which would certainly include Red/Black/White court vampires and Fae.

As for obscurity, anyone with Lore is going to know a +2 awareness catch without needing to roll.  A +0 catch can only be discovered through play, not necessarily in combat though, tracking down a former associate of the big bad to find out how to kill it might work too.  +1 catches are where the rolls would come in, I'd be generous to the monster; maybe making the difficulty equal to the sum of it's two or three highest skills or power costs (two for a general type of critter, three for extremely rare or unique individuals).  Per the Answers trapping under scholarship, if the Lore roll fails (and it should fail pretty big against things like major demons), it moves to the Research trapping, where shifts of time can make up the difference.  The reason I went with skill or power rather than a flat number is that more dangerous creatures are more likely to kill those who oppose them, leaving a very small pool of people who figured out their catch and survived to pass along the knowledge.

Of course, that assumes that the character in question even knows that kind of critter they are looking at.  A Lore check vs the target's highest skill or power cost would be reasonable to determine if they even know what it is; with a failure possibly misidentifying it as a similar creature.