Thanks for the feedback.  Not having put the scenario together yet (it's still just an idea) I'm not quite sure how I'll have it work.

From the Dark Shadows movie, since Barnabas Collins was turned into a 'traditional' vampire (i.e. Black Court most likely, Red Court at the very least) via a curse, then he wouldn't be able to create a Threshold.  Also, since he was buried in a box for two centuries he doesn't get recognized as a member of the family immediately and the Threshold would keep him out without an invitation.  Once becomes recognized as a member of the family (much like Morty's ghost-ancestor) he'd be able to pass through the Threshold without an issue.

For a mortal, I think the way I'll handle it is if there has been a significant passage of time for the Threshold to be maintained or grown without the involvement of the person who was missing, then unless one of the people who live in the home and sustain the Threshold consider the place the home of the mortal, the Threshold would also apply.  At least until they start living there or are considered to live there by the rest of the family.

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So that's 8 times a +4 to the roll? I'd seriously question that. If the enchanted items create aspects, and those aspects are applicable to pretty much everything, I'd veto it entirely. Make different items that have situational applications and all is good. If you can shove the game into a direction so you can use all of them, kudos to you.

Then there is another issue. Maneuver spells usually require an action to be used. I could see an item every now and again that allows you to simply use the aspect it would create, if it makes sense, but I would not let players create enchanted items that only do this. They should be the exception, not the rule.
And if you have to spend an action to create aspects, other people can use their action to remove the aspect or at least remove your tag on it. Especially if you create 2 aspects simultaneously, which means each aspect can be removed with significantly less effort than if it was only one. After that, it's not going to be nearly as powerful.

Two things keep coming to mind with the discussion about using Enchanted Items to provide bonuses.

The first, (which people seem to be overlooking) is that the RAW allows an Enchanted Item to store/cast one single spell. *Yes, a Warden Sword is an Enchanted Item with two different functions but that is a special case.  Depending on the GM and table choose to interpret or allow, this means the Enchanted Item can only cast one spell which either could only do the same Maneuver, or it might be allowed to perform different, similar Maneuvers.  In other words the Enchanted Item couldn't be used to perform a Maneuver to knock over a case of ball bearings to create a Temporary Aspect: Unsteady Footing and then at some other point do a completely different Maneuver to create a fog cloud for a Temporary Aspect: Obscuring Mists.

The second is that Maneuvers to create Aspects are either opposed rolls (much like an attack roll) or against the environment.  In a number of cases, a difficulty of Good (+3) will allow the creation of a Fragile Temporary Aspect against the environment however that isn't true in all cases.  Using the example above of creating a fog cloud, in an area with plenty of water/moisture and cool air that could quite easily be only a Good (+3) environmental difficulty.  However, trying to create the same sort of fog cloud at high noon in Camp Kaboom, New Mexico...  That would likely a Fantastic (+6) or greater difficulty.

The variations in difficulty depending on circumstances are important because what the Enchanted Item can accomplish (shifts of difficulty) and number of uses is set at the item of item creation or the appropriate milestones.

In the example given by InFerrumVeritas, the +3 item 3x per session would allow Temporary Aspect creation via Maneuvers three times per session without causing Mental Stress, assuming the environmental or opposed difficulty was only Good (+3) or less.  However, if the difficulty for any of the attempts was Great (+4) or better, the Maneuver would fail, the attempt used up, no Temporary Aspect created, and using the Enchanted Item to maneuver would require the character to use an Action.

If the players are creative, then they might come up with spells for a maneuver which is fairly broad, allowing more frequent application when creating Temporary Aspects, but in general I would consider using an Enchanted Item like this inefficient or wasteful.

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That's basically true anyway. It would take a seriously powerful creature to break in to St Mary of the Angels.

Or the Carpenter's home for that matter.  It was suggested by Harry in Ghost Story that the Threshold on the Carpenter's home is the greatest in the world, and IIRC he suggested (somewhat jokingly) that it might be viewable from space like the Great Wall of China.  Also keep in mind there is a CPP detail of something like a dozen angels in and around the house.

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The first question which comes to mind is what actually has Intellectus?

From the novels, certain ancient genus loci might develop a limited Intellectus confined to knowledge and awareness within the confines of their location.  Otherwise certain powerful entities, specifically some at the top of the scale of the supernatural heavyweights (archangels, Mother Summer & Mother Winter...) have it.

The reason I bring that up, is that seems to suggest that Intellectus is really more a plot level device, as opposed to a supernatural power.  I certainly wouldn't let a player develop or have Intellectus, though I might allow them to bind themselves to an entity which has a limited form of it.

Cold Days spoiler below:
 

One of the things which should be appearing in the upcoming Paranet Papers are rules for creating golems or constructs like the Wardhounds.  Based off the hints I've gotten so far, I'm working on adapting them to allow for the creation of a "Jarvis"-like programmed intelligence which could be built into a Ward.

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Perhaps the most interesting character I've come across is a young, ten year old Icelandic boy who is a wendol, being able to borrow (or steal) the powers of others by consuming their flesh if living, or absorbing part of their spirit if dead.

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Of course.

If you're especially good at keeping your cool mentally, why wouldn't it apply to seeing something mind boggling?

Calm Blue Ocean means you're better at keeping control of your emotions. 

From YS151

Calm Blue Ocean: You are skilled at keeping your emotions in check. Gain +2 to Discipline when rolling to keep emotions under control.

On using the Sight (YS223) the Discipline roll is to defend against the strain of Seeing the true nature of things.  The ability to keep calm IMO wouldn't really help with something like that.

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Sure thing, so far 49 characters of various templates and power levels have been uploaded.

If people have questions, comments or suggestions, please let me know.  Also people are looking for certain types of characters which aren't in the list, again please let me know and I can take a crack at creating them.  Right now there are about a dozen Colonial era characters left to go over, then upload.  After that there are about 47 different character ideas which just need creation and uploading.

Again, everyone please feel free to use these as NPC's, pre-generated characters, the opposition, whatever.

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Ok, if you're using the Dresden Files rules to run a superhero game, then sure some of the mechanics would be different.  If you haven't already, you might want to take a look at Fate Core.

As others have already mentioned, things like Claws and Breathe Weapon a character always has (unless part of an IoP...) but they can also be re-skinned into fangs or other type melee and ranged attacks.  Yeah, a gun can be used to fire bullets, or maybe even some of the specialty rounds (bean-bag, pepper spray, Dragon's Breath, etc) but their ammo is limited and guns can be taken away.  Also depending on the threat/opponent, bullets might not even be effective, but a character that can shoot lasers, breath fire, spit acid, etc can be a bit more flexible.

Given the role of technology and equipment in many superhero games though, it might make more sense to look towards Fate Core for some help, rather than construct a rules set for Dresden Files.

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