We now start a new gaming group (with people I play with like forever) and one of them will play an ectomancer. I already told him that Necromancy would bring up the White Council and that he already met a warden, which told him very clearly what he is allowed to do and what not. All three players don`t know the books (and only one the TV series) and so I have to explain a lot of the Dresdenverse to them. But they are unbiased, so that will be a big merit.
When we made characters the ectomancer player was already rambling about creating undead and stuff like that and I think this might be great thing to see were this may lead storywise. But I have big problems fpr myself to define, where the borders of true necromancy are. As I understand it, it is forbidden, to contact or summon unwilling dead. Ok so far. Ghost are something entirely different because they are only imprints of the dead.
So my first question: Is it black magic if you summon and bind a ghost as some kind of bodyguard or fighter. In OW the spirit warrior (donīt remimber the right term for them right now) is described as normally used by necromancers. Might be cruel to use ghosts that way but is it really a violation of the law? And if it is not I would still like to stain the ectomancer when he would doing it the whole time. There might be no soul but like faeries ghosts have more or less real feeling and if you force them to "die" for you is quite not very friendly.
My second question: Why is it a violation of the fith law to create zombies. Same as for ghost warriors: It is sick like hell perhabs but you use long dead bodies and bind some random spirit to it (By the way it is never explained what these spirits are) and then you have some kind of construct. And building constructs is normally no problem as I see it. Or are you summoning the real dead soul of the former body owner? Or are you using the might of the death of that person? Then perhaps I would understand the problem....

Itīs me again with another annoying rule vs. "reality" question. 

All aspects grant a +2 bonus to your roles. Iīm ok with that. But sometimes this just doesnīt fit. For example: You have a Fire evocation wizard standing a the edge of an active volcano. He ist fighting some bad guys. One scence aspect is "Molten lava" and the wizard wants to tap the power of the volcano (maybe not the whole ) to burn them to ashes. In my opinion a simple +2 bonus for a frigging volcano is really not strong enough. How would you handle this?

Hi there!

I`m new to this board and from Germany, so please excuse any misspellings or bad grammar.

Now to my problem or question as you like:

Don`t you think that the supernatural speed powers are a little bit weak? Sure the athletic bonus rocks and since this skill can be widely used it can also be used for a lot of maneuvers etc. But I would think that the comparable powers like supernatural strength or endurance are "better" especially if it comes to fighting. Wouldn`t it seem logical to you if the three speed powers would grant a +1/+2/+3 (inhuman/supernatural/mythic) to unarmed and weapon fighting like some kind of complement action? To me it seems that it would be much more difficult to dodge or parry a much faster opponent. Of course then speed would be a little bit too strong for me. Has somebody thought also about this and if, have you got any good solutions for this problem.

Greetings
Guldor