If Rumors From the Paranet isn't done writing yet, can we the fans make a few requests?

Such as:

The missing Magic/Anti-Magic Circle rules
Harry's Gravity Hammer spell from "It's My Birthday, Too" and "Changes"
Etc, etc...

OK, so we all know having someone's True Name gives you power over them, if only for Thamaturgy reasons. But what if you legally change your name or assume a false identity?

I have a player with a wizard concept that her father, a mundane but royal bastard, was raising her to be a magical enforcer. She skipped town as fast as she could and adopted a new name and identity on the other side of the country. Before she left she was sure to destroy any blood and hair samples he had stashed so the big tracking spell components are gone.

Now as the GM, I'm saying she could make a "Rebirth" ritual to purge her old name and take on a new one for magical purposes, but should I also require an Aspect as well?

OK, so Harry has his flickum bicus spell and "make my pentacle light up" thingy.


What other different minor/mundane spells have anybody come up with?

Such as....
"Open the door to my apartment (only), while locked, when my hands are full of groceries."
"Wave my hands and the drapes close."
"Find my car keys, AGAIN!"
"POOF! The cat hair is gone from my couch!"

I started getting my DFRPG group together and will try to give the best accounting as possible.

The following story is true. The names have been changed to protect the guilty and avoid copyright lawsuits.

I started to set up the fictional story city of Midnight Bay, a fair sized city on the West Coast about halfway between LA and SanFran.
For an image, I based it on the game world of Stillwater from Saint's Row 2 video game.

My first player Sammi wanted to play a standard White Council Wizard. She had a strong background in D&D 3/3.5 and no previous experence in FATE or Dresden Files, I sugested baseing her character on another idea and updating it to the setting.
 
Having just finished Mass Effect 2 not too long ago, her inspiration was from the character of Miranda Lawson, a character idea I have been kicking around for a while myself.

Character: Miranda Lawson
High Concept: Gifted Prodigy of the White Council
Trouble: Council Loyalist
Aspects: Keen Mind, Highly Attractive, Excellence in Execution, [open], [open]
Skills:
Suberb(+5): Lore
Great(+4): Discipline, Scholarship
Good(+3): Contacts, Conviction, Resources
Fair(+2): Alertness, Deciet, Presense, Rapport
Average(+1): Athletics, Endurance, Guns, Fists, Weapons

Stunts and Powers:
-3 Evocation, -3 Thaumaturgy, -1 The Sight, 0 Soulgaze, 0 Wizard's Constitution, -1 Refinment

Specializations:
Evocation: Elements (Air, Spirit, Fire) Power (Spirit +1)
Thaumaturgy [open]

Focus Items:
Copper Rod (+1 Power Offense Air)
Whitewood Staff (+1 Power Offense Spirit, Defense Spirit)
Shield Ring (+1 Power Defense Air)
Four Open Enchanted Item Slots (primarily potions)

Starting Refresh: -8

For an "orientation" session, I set up a quick drop-in idea so that anyone else could join in.
Miranda gets a call from the Regional Commader of the Wardens that a mystical tome of occult rituals has just been smuggled into Midnight Bay from an unknown source. The Warden sources say that this book has been out of circulation for quite a while so some of the rituals it contains could be quite dangerous in the wrong hands (ie anyone). Miranda is charged with locating and retrieving it. Pretty much a standard "Item Fetch" quest.

So Fred, how'd you do?

Meets/ excedes expectations?

EDIT: Never mind, I just read Deadly Fredly.  Super Cool, Dude!

OK, for my Aesir God-Blooded Biker Character, I thought I could be a classist and maybe stick with "mistletoe".

But what if I was designing a "Buffy" type slayer with inhuman recovery (clearly established in the series).
What could possibly be her "catch"?

"You killed him!"
"Nah, I shot him. The bullets and the fall killed him."

Max and Vincent, Collateral



So, I've got a player who wants a rote spell called "Fifty feet up and falling". It's an air spell that blows someone straight up into the air and gravity does the rest.
He argues that since the fall is doing the damage (well the ground, actually), not the spell, it's not a violation of the First Law.

I say the Wardens might not see it that way.
Opinions?

"I've got a hankie full of sunshine."

In preparation for Changes and DFRPG I've been re-reading the Dresden Files. In Storm Front, Harry fends off bat-form Bianca with a cloth powered with sunlight.
In game terms I'm imagining this as a potion slot, yes?