How do you guys handle this?

It would seem most appropriate to start with a Maneuver and then tag the resulting aspect.  But...  If the character wants to STAY behind the cover and continue getting the bonus, he either has to A) spend a Fate Point every round, or B) spend his action on a new Maneuver.

The other way, I suppose, would be to use the character's Stealth skill to block all attacks against him.  But again, the character would be constantly using all his actions to block.

Is there a good way to allow someone to, for example, shoot at an enemy from around a corner and still gain some benefit from hiding behind that corner?

Thoughts?

So, while we've played FATE before, my players and I are all new to DFRPG.  So, to familiarize myself with the rules and to provide my players with a handy resource, I'm putting together a condensed quick reference guide.  If you guys don't mind, I'd like to run it by you to make sure I get it right.

First off, Aspects...

So, my players decided that my earlier idea of The Ghostbusters vs. Harry Dresden was fine for a short one-shot adventure, but not really fodder for a long-term campaign.

Oh well.

Instead, we've settled on more of a government consipracy theme...  If you are familiar with them, imagine an independent organization like the Archer Foundation (from the eponymous Spycraft RPG setting) jointly funded by a consortium of national governments and international organizations.  In recent years they've acquired all the resources and information of competing organizations like the Extraterrestrial Combat Operations Mission (XCOM!), the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense (Hellboy!), U.N.I.T. (Dr. Who!), the Ghostbusters and so on.

At any rate, the point is, the organization might not have spellslingers or wizards, per se, but they would make use of psionic talents and methods discovered during their research into extraterrestial biology and technology...  Telepathy, Telekinesis, Extra Sensory Perception and the like.

I've already run across a thread or two discussing the possible game mechanics behind psionics.  For my purposes, I'm going to use existing magical and supernatural powers, carefully picked and refluffed.  As far as the rules go, they'll work more or less identically to magic, just with different special effects.  The reasoning being that psionics are just, effectively, a sort of magic using a different source of faith and belief (pseudoscience!) to power them.

What I need advice on is:  How would the assorted supernatural factions react to such an organization? How would the Seven Laws of Magic apply to psionics, or would they apply at all?  And how might the White Council deal with mortals possessing magic-like supernatural powers, but who are backed by, funded by and take orders from mortal authorities?

...with regards to Physical Immunity?

Is it just anything that would cause physical (rather than mental or social) stress with a successful attack?

My sincerest advance apologies for my rambling verbosity.

So, my players and I are looking to take a break from 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons once we end our latest campaign.  After mulling over our options, one of my players requested that I run a Dresden Files game.  Those of us not entirely familiar with Dresden are already familiar with Spirit of the Century and FATE, so it's a go. 

Now, I'm only partially familiar with the Dresdenverse...  I've seen all twelve episodes of the television, and I've just begun reading the novels and the RPG books.  Please, bear with me -- I'm catching up as fast as I can.   

Anyway, I'm thinking over ideas and options I'd like to use for the campaign I intend to run.  Firstly, we all lie on the suburban frontier of Chicago, and so we'd like to use Chicago as our city of choice.  However, as with any game that based on an already established setting, that would feasibly put the player-characters directly into the shadows of the heroes of the novels the game is based on.  As I'm trying to reconcile the problem without resorting to the usual tricks and cliches (No, they aren't proteges of Harry! And no, he's not missing so they have to go find him and rescue him!), a brilliant idea hits me...

Back in the late '80s, WEG published a Ghostbusters RPG, which I'd played a few times in junior high school. The premise of the game was that the original Ghostbusters created a corporation called Ghostbusters International and were selling franchises to people who wanted to start Ghostbusting in other cities.  Why not use the same idea here?  There's really nothing in Ghostbusters that contradicts anything in the Dresdenverse, and vice versa.

So, the conceit is that the Ghostbusters actually exist in Harry Dresden's world, they'd effectively be clued-in mortals, perhaps bordering on minor talents, but relying more on (pseudo)science than magic.  My PCs would begin the game by opening a new Ghostbusters international franchise in Chicago, bringing them into direct (and open!) competition with Harry Dresden's business.

I'm really liking the idea of using Harry and Karrin as occasional rivals and foils with goals that are generally compatible with the PCs, but perhaps conflicting values and methods.

What do you guys think?  Could it work?