I would just go for "Specialized Practioner" as a higher, evolved, form of Focused Practitioner. Iīm guessing their going for something like it in the Paranet Papers.

For me horror is the unknown and being faced with something much tougher than you are. At the same time you canīt  find a easy escape.
For example a insane ghost that materialises behind your characters, grabbs them and separates them (with a block). Think like a movie monster or Batman. How do you split them up and tear them apart?

In my game a big troll-monster grappled a player and set up a wall of deadly wines between the rest of the party. left alone the troll could squeeze the life out of her bit by bit. And just as they came through the wines the monster dragged her away into the forest. The green tentacles rustling the leaves as it melted with the shadows. Naturally they pursued. They arenīt, or should I say werenīt, too bright. . .

Bonus points if they canīt really do anything against you, like physical immunity. And their only hope is banding together, backing away step after step as your nightmare-apparition of pure eyes and darkness creep toward them. The Fluff of World Of Darkness is great for ideas.

So in general itīs more about Tactics.

Then thereīs always mental combat and the consequences that can have on the characters. Who sayīs all murderers and maniacs got there by normal means?
I sometimes ask my players to roll against conviction if they see something traumatic, or a fate-point if they have a good reason.

Hi. low-level question:

When a vampire uses his powers at the end of the scene/conflict he/she is supposed to take Hunger damage to his hunger stress track. Is this the sum of the refresh (Inhuman str, though, rec=6) or the number of times the powers are used?.

Mine has always been a Tag is just a free Compel without a fate point, so anyone can pay a FP to reject it.

re: Fire

You don't necessarily need to have them roll against the environment.   Doing this could give the scene more urgency to a scene but sometimes it bogs things down.  Instead, you could use the aspect to compel them to do other things.

"you want to leave because the police are coming, but you don't want to leave innocent people in a burning building" (although, that may be more related to one of their aspects)

"you can't go back out the front door because it's blocked with fire"

"one of the enemies escapes because your view of them is obscured by smoke"

These are all compels using the "building on fire" aspect.

Silence:
You just compel the aspect when it's important.

He who walks behind puts up silence.  It's a fact.  Certain things are a given:  gun-fire won't be heard therefore other people are not likely to come and investigate etc... You should only compel it when it complicates something.

- If the PC's are trying to over-hear people talk about their evil plan, you compel them to not hear the plan (which leaves them in the dark and makes things harder for them).  If they turn it down, you can allow them to roll (although, the evil-doers probably won't be able to hear each other talk, so turning down the compel allows the PC's to read gestures/lips)

- The PC's are doing maneuvers that require speech (maybe even spellcasting).  Compel them to say those actions don't work.  If they turn it down, you can, if you want, still increase the difficulty but say they do it using gestures.

-Penalize an alertness roll or automatically fail one to be ambushed.

When the silence really Matters that's when you compel.  Those are just examples off the top of my head and, maybe, not great ones.

Thx for the help.
So if a compell "fail", I.E gets bought out, I can increase the difficulty. I am going to re-read HWWB in Our World again but Iīm going to guess that if He success he Declares the Fact or sets up a Block.If all my players buy out I can still increase the roll to a unproboable difficulty.

Hi. new GM here.

I have read the book YS 5/6 times and I canīt precisely wrap my head around a few things, though I think I get the basics.

For maneuvers the add a factor which you can tag for a +2, that I get. But Iīm wondering how I should apply the "disarmed" aspect on a gunman. If he canīt reach his gun, he canīt attack right?. But as I understand it the aspect only gives a +2 modifier, unless compelled by players or GM.
So if a player wants to "disarm" someone for sure. . .how do I correctly model it?

I guess if the maneuver goes through by Compel or roll I make it a Contest to find the gun/sword again?/remove the aspect. Unless the aspect crumbles on itīs own?
Iīm also confused with Fire Hazards, HWWB Zone of Silence and Indirect attacks. For example, a guy lobs a grenade to collapse the cave roof over the heroes. The roll gets decided by throwing, but how do i deal with the damage from the tonnes of rocks?

Itīs mainly that I donīt really get how to GM aspects for effect, apart from compels and they can always be resisted.