You are either a liar or you don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about.

Uncool, dude.
 
As for the rules not quite simulating the books? You're right. No game EVER perfectly simulates the source material. Jim Butcher doesn't have to follow game theory or worry about game balance when writing.

I've worked up data for my Dresden Files RPG campaign entitled Ray of Sunshine. It takes place in Orlando, Florida.

The Faces: http://rayofsunshine.imagination-evolution.net/index.php/Who%27s_Who

and

Locations: http://rayofsunshine.imagination-evolution.net/index.php/Occult_Orlando

One of the Faces in my Orlando campaign is Sings to the Heart, a skunk ape (Florida branch of the Forest People) who writes romance novels.

I've looked but I can't find any speculation or write-ups on Forest People in general and Strength of a River in His Shoulders for the DFRPG anywhere. Has anyone tackled this topic?

Thanks again for the replies. You've clarified some things and made me think about others. Narphoenix, I appreciate the sponsored magic write-up but the player has no interest in being a spellcaster. She's more akin to the Knights of the Cross.

I do have a few more magic questions if y'all will indulge me.

1. When casting an offensive spell, how do shifts beyond the spell's original power level count? I.e. if I cast a 4 shift fireball spell and get a result of 7 on my roll+skill+foci bonus, does the fireball count as a Weapon:4 or a Weapon:7? Does the target roll to defend against a difficulty of 4 or a difficulty of 7? Do I add the difference between my roll and the target's roll to the stress caused by the attack?

2. As I understand it, you can't create a Focus Item with more + bonuses than your Lore rating. You also can't create an Enchanted Item with a greater effect than your Lore rating. Is this a blanket rule? Or can you use extra item slots to increase a bonus rating on Focus Items beyond Lore and an effect on Enchanted Items greater than Lore?

3. And one last question on thresholds. Would you consider the abandoned ghost house in the Night Fears case file from Evil Hat to have one? Or has it been abandoned so long that the threshold has died away?

Thanks again!

I am curious. Wouldn't a simple house rule to the Refinement power, allowing focused practitioners to buy specialties for their chosen field, fix any issue with modeling Mortimer as portrayed in later books?

Hello. I have gotten to run a couple of test scenarios for players in an attempt to learn the rules. I have been able to answer most of the questions that arose by going back and rereading the rules but a few are confusing me and I hope y'all can help.

1. How are the stress boxes gained from Toughness powers affected by the Catch? If a goblin has a physical stress track of OOO(OO) due to Inhuman Toughness and suffers 4 points of Physical Stress from an iron weapon do I mark off the 4th stress track box or is he Taken Out?

2. Can a block be used as an attack? For example, if X says she will cover Evil Dude with her pistol and shoot him of he seems to be attacking would that be a block that inflicts Physical Stress?

3. If a ferromancer (Mage who works with metal) uses evocation to wrap a chainlink fence around an enemy (and uses extra shifts to purchase pronounced duration) is this counted as a general block that prevents most actions or a grapple that let's the Mage still take other actions? Or is it a maneuver that adds an Aspect?

4. Evocation focus items need to be declared as offensive or defensive. What if they are used for maneuvers or blocks? If a block is cover fire would that be considered offensive or defensive? Is a maneuver to put an Increased Personal Gravity Aspect on a target considered offensive or defensive?

Thank you very much for humoring a GM who is new to this system.

Okay, so I should be making the Refresh for each pure mortal character two less? -10 and 0 respectively?

And Melendwyr, that makes sense. The glasses were a gift from the wizard who owns the commune Moondove lives in (and runs in his stead).