My NYC Campaign is beginning to form up. Or at least the concepts are. My group is looking at another 6 months of the Pathfinder Campaign were in nwo, then my Dresden Game rolls in. Anyhow, here's what I'm looking at so far for characters by their High Concepts:
Prophisized "Angel" Daughter of Aphrodite (Yep, she's a halfblood Victoria's Secret Supermodel with a prophecy about her)
Veteran War Wizard Looking for a Cause (Player is angling for a wizard not happy with the Council's choices, looking for something to fight for other than just survival. My game is while the Vampire War is still going on)
Red Court Infected ex-CTU Agent (Sorta Jack Bauer as a Infected. Mercenary for hire now)
Clueless Scion of Tymora ('Luckiest' person on Earth. Drawbacks though. Using powers has a hunger track, where he must take the luck form those around them, ie putting an aspect of bad luck temporarily on someone, not always a PC, for each hunger box)
Only Daughter of the Leananshide (Need I say more?)

My concern is this. How do I keep the Wizard form solving every problem with Thaumaturgy? Need information, summon a demon and bargain for info, or summon a LOA? Looking for someone, tracking spell. etc.

Just looking for some advice here

Noticed this and thought I would mention...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112182/

Or the Ninth Gate.

In SF, Harry was out on the water standing on a reef. It made his magic more difficult to summon, but not impossible.

Just to mention, after scorching Tessa in SF, Harry heard a whisper, like that of a calm old man, essentially laying out his current situation and telling him to run. This occurred while holding onto the handle of Fiddelichius.

I would also put in Sponsored Magic of some sort. Otherwise how would Boramir have used it as a weapon for Gondor? The ring is a conduit of Sauron's strength, so it seems like someone who succumbed to the ring would be granted power beyond just bossing around the other ring bearers.

I like it, but I would have the skills closer to this.

+5 Endurance, Conviction
+4 Presence, Intimidation
+3 Guns, Weapons
+2 Might, Fists
+1 Alertness, Athletics

Its kinda on the old side, but I don't remember it coming up before.

In PG Luccio's boot camp was attacked as a distraction for the RC. It was stated by Eb that only the Merlin, Listens to Winds, Ancient Mai and Morgan knew where the camp was. But this may have been during the time Peabody was warping Luccio's mind, so he could have gotten it from her.

*****Random Ideas. YMMV****

As a GM you can largely prevent unexpected loot turning into a problem. Think about turning high value items taken from bad guys quickly turning into tags or social or mental conflicts. Marcone would never let a suitcase with half a mil just walk away. But in keeping with the loot that no longer has an owner...

Make each loot item a "Consequence".

Mild        +2 to one resource check, lasts until the end of the next scene. The money you swiped from a thug's 
             wallet. By the end of the next scene you could have gotten to an ATM, and that small amount of cash
             would be useful. Might be used to counter act a compel like "Lost My Wallet".         
Moderate +4 to one resource check, lasts until the end of the story. This could be one valuable item or a sack of
               cash, which may come in handy during the story. After that, it probably went for rent.   
Severe    +6 to one resource check, lasts until the end of the next story. Like the briefcase full of money Murphy
              got during Aftermath. Its a lot of money, but if it stays around for too long, it will find itself dwindling
              to pay rent, or smaller needs for the Paranet.
Extreme   +8 to resource checks, lasts until the story says otherwise. Imagine the last season of Angel where
              the team got Wolfram and Hart.

This could also be turned into another stress track for social or mental conflicts involving extortion or ransoms. You could take consequences to you Resource skill like you do your other stress tracks. If you have seen "Proof of Life",
you can see where I'm taking this.

Try to allow only planned loot, so you can stat in advance.


_{*edited for spelling errors.*}