Maybe technomancy requires you to be a scientific crank. Maybe it only works if you buy into some kind of nonsensical pseudoscience that "explains" all the wacky stuff you can do.

That way, you can have someone who doesn't believe in magic, but does believe in and practice something very similar.

Oh, I like that. You get delightful conversations of 'that makes no sense' vs "it works, so clearly it does" and ethical problems of how to respond to mundanes who want to use the technomancy but can't - frex a Technomancer could use a homeopathic vaccine, and have it work: but a mortal copying them is just endangering herd immunity.

Should have thought of it before: what you want is written up in detail in another of Evil Hat's games, Spirit of the Century.
Further, since a 'gimme' of that setting is that PCs are all born on 1/1/01, you could take an 18 year old in a modern campaign and actually have them *be* a centurion.

Harry is able to repel Red and Black Court vampires with his faith in magic and its proper use, even though he explicitly doesn't view it as a religion such as Wicca, etc., and he certainly (in game terms) doesn't have any True Faith powers on his character sheet.

Although it hardly surprising that a vampire has a different take on what faith is than say, a Knight! 
There's no particular reason why faith-Catches need to be identical for different beasties, it would boil down to *why* is the beastie vulnerable to faith.

In the books, the original 3 knights of the Cross are descended from the original wielders of the blades, and this is supposed to be important. (real world, everybody is descended from everybody; go back 10 generations and you have 1024 ancestors in that generation, you only have to go back a few millennia to get people from whom *everybody* is descended).

Both books and rule books reference the power of the belief of large numbers of people - the Swords are referred to in the rule book as being a focus for the belief of the 2 billion+ Christians on the planet, Butters gets an upgraded blade thanks to the number of Star Wars fans on the planet. (which would imply that it isn't 'belief' per se, so much as mental interest; perhaps from a rules perspective, the number of Fate points spent on the obsession).
I suspect that who can use the Swords and what actions they will tolerate are dependent on the current beliefs of the people powering them; so that a millennia ago, none of the current wielders would have been acceptable, but the blade would have been quite happy to cut down Nicodemus (as he had just ordered a murder). That would allow for a long term plot of Nicodemus trying to change the Christian worldview sufficiently for him to wield the sword.

I played a high-Resources character in a PbP game a while back, and once I got into his head I found that buying off every problem seemed entirely natural. Why threaten or cajole when you can bribe? Why fight when you can hire guns, or just give the opposition what they want? It worked well for that game, but I could easily see it becoming a problem if it went too smoothly.

Two responses:
firstly, why is it not a problem that violence can be used to solve every problem?
Secondly, how many of the plots in the Dresden books could have been solved by throwing money at them? About the only times money is a solution, Dresden simply takes the solution (frex hiring Kincaid) and then worries about how to pay for it later.
Money stops the tired, overused plots. That can only be good.

[edit] Loved both of the link btw. Good stuff!

Only an owner can let somebody in a house. Only Mortal Magic can allow Outsiders In... There are lesser and greater thresholds and degrees of ownership in play. 

Nice catch, that does indicate that Mortals own reality. (Assuming that yes, only owners can let someone in; again, is that stated somewhere?)

Hmm, implication then that Lawbreaker is partly a defence mechanism for reality; anyone who willing to let Outsiders in picks up Lawbreaker and so likely goes zero refresh...preventing them from bringing in more Outsiders.

2) depends on your theology.

Was it given so that we could use it however we want or were we simply made Stewards?

Interesting theologically but irrelevant in practice, as having stewardship rights is sufficient - note that Dresden does not need to own his home, renting is sufficient to grant a Threshold. While it might not be as strong as if he owned it, when the subject comes up, ownership is never mentioned, instead his family life gets criticised. And note that even if he owned it, that wouldn't give him the right to set fire to the building or otherwise endanger the surrounding city, so he'd still have stewardship limitations without it causing limits on his threshold.

Going on a tangent, that raises the possibility of using Scholarship to get a Threshold in weird situations. The right govt permit could create a region with a threshold, frex by having the right to pitch a circus tent in a park (perhaps to prevent monsters from breaking out from underneath). I used to work in security, and the legal rules on what can and cannot be done are stronger and weirder than in Dresdenverse magic - to the level of the police would get security to do thing they could not, but taking a step out of the region we were agents of (not employees, the legal status is again special) meant having no powers what so ever.

Burial at sea btw requires special legal authorization, so the ghost of someone buried at sea might have a *vast* graveyard - possibly an inworld reason why ghost stories are common at sea.

So, what exactly is this thread meant for?

Are you looking for other people's anecdotes on how high-Resources characters have worked in their games? Do you want feedback on the approach you posted?

Both of those would be appreciated.

For?
I guess I'm thoroughly sick of games where the PCs are futureless losers lurching from crisis to crisis. Roleplaying is meant to be an *escape*, and I spent 17 years with a survival a day to day drear. Why imagine what I had to experience? Now that life is better, I'm actively interested in exploring options, the idea of roleplaying investments before making them real world is interesting.

"Thresholds can even be conceptual: the transition from night to day has a weakening effect on magic precisely because it is a sort of threshold. "(YS230)