Long story short, I'm playing a Champion of God and I'm looking to get some use out of my Holy Touch power. The problem is, I have two things working against me. The first is that my character is really liberal Unitarian - about the only things he finds offensive to his faith are Vampires and Demons. The second problem is that so far we have not run into either of these creatures (and it doesn't appear that we'll be doing so any time in the near future).

So, how do I actually get some use out of my power I spent my precious refresh on? What tricks can I pull with it?

And if this power really is useless in this game, does anyone have a suggestion for a power swap?

After some extensive playing and GMing I've come to the conclusion that the True Faith powers have a few balance issues when compared to other powers available to players. I have some ideas myself, but I really want to get some more feedback here and try to discuss the problems as I see them and see if I can get some feedback. My sample size is pretty small and I'd appreciate a few more eyes on the issue.

First of all, a short analysis of the powers after running for 3 Believers/Champions of God and playing a CoG myself.

Bless This House
Quite frankly I think this power is nothing more than a speed bump along the way to the interesting powers. I appreciate the fact that Thresholds are powerful things, but quite frankly I can count the number of times this power has been used on one hand. The biggest problem I've run into over multiple groups is that PCs, by nature, often bring the fight to their enemies. You will rarely be on the defensive, and even when you are on the defensive the chances of having an existing threshold to work with is very low.

Basically this power puts most of the onus of usefulness on the GM. At some point you're going to have to send enemies at your players when they're at home to even make this power useful. Which I think isn't very fun and severely limiting.

Guide My Hand
This power is great and functions just as intended. Needing a Fate Point to use it hurts, but the ability is more than useful. Of all the powers, this one gets the most use.

Righteousness
The real gem of the powers, provided the player has the sense to use it early in the adventure. Again it takes a fate point to activate, but the benefits are great. Desperate Hour tends to lose usefulness the higher the refresh climbs, but those are the breaks.

Holy Touch
This is another power that's highly situational and relies on the GM to really make it useful. It's great if you happen to be a Fists guy, but otherwise the only real use comes when you want to talk someone down instead of fighting them. But even then it really only seems to work on Vampires and little else. It just really seems overpriced.


Solutions
Now that I've highlighted my problems, I have a few solutions I want to discuss.

Bless This House
Honestly, I think this should be a -0 refresh power in most games. I think the number of times it's going to come into play approach the "once in a blue moon or when the GM is feeling generous" situations. It's a great flavor power, but that's really all it is - flavor. In ever game I've played in this has been the power that's received the most complaints.

Holy Touch
Honestly, I think allowing this power to extend to weapons you wield would make it a lot more useful. I'm not sure if that would make it too powerful, though.

Finally, I have two new powers I'd like some feedback on.

Armor of Faith [-1]
Description: Your faith is a tangible and potent shield against the attacks of the supernatural, enabling you to blunt or even negate the attacks of your foes.
Musts: You must have taken Righteousness (below) in order to take this ability.
Skills Affected: Conviction.
Effects:
Armor of Faith. Your faith is a tangible force that protects you from harm. You can use Conviction to defend against physical attacks (page 200) and to perform Blocks (page 210) in physical combat.

Saintly Bearing [-2]
Description: Your faith is so strong that you can work minor miracles in the name of your Deity.
Musts: You must have taken Righteousness (below) in order to take this ability.
Skills Affected: Conviction.
Effects:
Blessing of Faith. Your are imbued with the power of faith and can be used to hearten your companions. You can use Conviction to perform maneuvers that grant minor blessings (as temporary aspects) upon your allies. All aspects granted with this power must be tied to your faith and may never be invoked to aid actions that are anathema to your faith.
Faith Healing. Your very touch can ease the wounds of your companions. You may use your Conviction skill to declare justification for your own or another character’s recovery from moderate or severe consequences of any type, even without access to proper facilities, given time to pray and (for another character) lay hands upon the character in question. In addition, you may spend a Fate Point to allow another character to heal from a Consequence as though it were one level lower in severity. So, the subject would recover from moderate consequences as though they were mild, etc. Consequences reduced below mild are always removed by the beginning of a subsequent scene.

So, I'm working a PC (sadly for the fun of it, since I think I'm only ever going to be the GM for DF) and I've been thinking about two powers and wondering if they're balanced or not. Was hoping to get some feedback and consensus here.

The first is Supernatural Sense (Analytical Taste). Basically this guy can taste something and immediately tell you what it is, what ingredients went into it, and maybe even where said ingredients were produced or grown. But that's it. So this is a guy who could totally get the secret formula of Coke by tasting it. Or he could tell you where the grapes in a wine were grown. But he couldn't taste blood at a murder scene and tell you who's it is or what their blood type was.

Question is, do you think that's a valid use of Supernatural Sense, or is it too overpowered? I'm kind of on the fence about it. I'd totally allow it if one of my players asked me, but I wanted to get some feedback. It almost feels too powerful for a single point of refresh.

The second power was Physical Immunity with the Catch that it only works against ingested poisons. Now, I have this priced at a +5 rebate (+2 for only protecting against one thing, +2 because not ingested poisons is INCREDIBLY easy to find, and +1 because a wizard would know about it) but I have a hard time thinking that Immunity to Ingested Poisons is worth as much as Evocation. But that's what the rules get me.

Do you think a +7 catch (reducing the power to -1) would be too much for that immunity? Or should I go with the rules and just accept that my concept is going to require -4 refresh in powers?

And FYI, I don't really have a GM to appeal to. In our group I'm the GM. That and this guy is an alchemist and I just thought that it would be neat if he was a super taster and immune to ingested poisons.