I know, I know... 

I was thumbing through my Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic trying to get some inspiration for some unique items when a thought struck me.

Is it possible to craft an item, so that instead of providing a bonus of any type, it absorbs the stress of magic being cast? My thinking is that of a persistent enchanted item that acts as a "Reserve" battery of a sort. My thoughts are that when crafting, the spellcaster would suffer stress to create the item, then take half back as stored personal energy. I think it would follow the 1/2 rule as well. 2 stress = 1 in reserve and so on...
For fluff sake, I'm thinking that it causes such a strain on the Wizard's pattern, that it can only be done occasionally, hence the once per session rule. Maybe it could be built as a potion? Trying to go for more utility than power.

I searched the boards and didn't find a reference to this subject. Everything I've seen has been for items that help power levels, etc. So if it is mentioned, I apologize in advance.

Thoughts? and Thanks!

I had the privilege of attending Jim's Q&A/signing event here in San Diego. It was a great time. A lot of questions about the Dresden Files, The Codex Alera, and even about the RPG. There was a significant interest in the game. I brought my full-color bound copy of the Pre-release, so I ended up showing A LOT of people the game. There was significant interest in the game. Even an elderly couple asked me about it. I think among the non-gamer types, they were still excited with Our World. Which is promising.

During the signing, I showed Jim the large blank space in OW and asked, "So... How's this coming?"

He kinda slumped into his chair with his head down and said, "I'm working on it, I swear!!!" He laughed about it though, he was happy to see the game in the wild.

I also got a great little gem, a "First RPG Sig!" on the cover of YS as well as his autograph. I was doing the Snoopy dance last night




edit: Thanks for the help!!!

YES!!!

That cheer was heard around my office... Needless to say I got a few odd looks 

Excellent 

I didn't see it in the True Faith section of the powers list written up in the Q&A, so I was just curious as to whether it was a Stunt or something else entirely.

Thanks guys!

Ok, to make it simple, lets start a basic fight between our heroes and some mooks. We use gaming stones to represent our characters and any npcs

each circle represents a zone. if you're in the same circle, you're in zone 0. one circle away, zone 1, etc. All the circles do is to allow for people to spread out across a battle and still make sense of some type of distance.

For instance, Balthazar the wizard, Ferny Green the changeling, and Father Simon have been cornered by some Red Court vampires. Since Father Simon likes to bring the power of God, he rushes in. Zone 0. Ferny holds back a ways and shoots his handgun at Zone 2. Balthazar being a Wizard, throws arcane bolts of power at the vamps from Zone 3.

Father Simon is holding his own, but a couple vamps get past him and rush Ferny. Now Father Simon is still Zone 0 and Ferny is in Zone 0 as well. Balthazar is still Zone 3 from Father Simon's mooks, but Zone 1 away from Ferny's mooks.

I hope that makes sense.

The Ritual Circle and the "bullseye" is more dressing than anything else since there technically isn't a Zone associated with scrying or REALLY long range rituals. I was just trying to fill in some dead space.    But who knows... DFRPG might have something...

Sorry if there was any confusion on that. 

Oh, and one more thing. I used circles simply due to the fact that they are so prominent in the Dresden Files. But you could use anything to separate the zones. We tried using twizzlers once... that didn't work out.