Here's what I have use as props.

3" x 5" index cards, these are used to write down temporary and/or scene Aspects.  Once the Aspect is available in play, the card is folded so it stands up and can be scene.  if the Aspect is used up/goes away, the card gets yanked.

For convention play (I regularly run DFRPG at Connecticon and some of the other conventions in the area) I've found it useful to have larger index cards with the characters name and Aspects written and standing up, so that all the players know who all the characters are, as well as everyone having a reminder of what everyone's character Aspects are.

For Fate counters, I have a couple of sets of plastic tokens which have (or had) runes painted on them.

Occasionally I will use a whiteboard to draw out a rough map of an area.  However, I often also make use of an iPad and just show people an aerial photo of the area in question, since our game is set in the New Haven area of Connecticut.

That's not necessarily true. Bob's skull is designed to be a "home away from home" for Bob, to grant him protection from things that erode magic and magical entities. Granted, it's mostly sunrise and sundown he uses it for, but I'm pretty sure it works for other types of eroding as well. Including circles. I don't see a reason why it shouldn't work for something like this as well. The circle is probably going to do something, yes. Maybe slowing the golem down. But it wouldn't have to erode the entire magical construct or the spirit within the construct.

My understanding of Bob's skull from Ghost Story and Cold Days is that it is a sanctuary, acting as a sort of pocket Nevernever domain controlled (and powered) by Bob.  This would mean that the skull is closer to being an Item of Power or Enchanted Item as opposed to the target or an active ritual.  Also Bob has taken shelter in other, non-magical things from daylight (IIRC a gun barrel in Changes) for brief periods.

Keep in mind with golems and other constructs, the creator needs to include some sort of provision for the construct to obey the creator's commands, or else have some form of at least limited intelligence and something to keep the construct within behavior parameters that the creator specifies.  Without these, a golem or construct will either just sit/stand there and do nothing, or else might decide to do something on it's own which likely wouldn't be what the creator wants.

A circle or a Threshold would disrupt the ongoing ritual which would provide or control the above 'programming'.

He's right about the ectoplasm melting. It's because it's material ripped right from the nevernever. The circle breaks it's link and it melts. That's why I specifically mentioned a construct made of an actual real world materiel, like iron or stone. A magic circle wouldn't destroy that body, the spirit would still have it's vessel but it may well be trapped in the circle.

The body, vessel, or 'normal' matter or material would indeed remain.  Any active rituals involved in the golem however would be cut off and stopped by the circle, since there is no longer access to any magic/energy from outside the circle.

So they work like ward traps. But how would the construct dissipate if it isn't made of ectoplasm?

The material of the construct itself wouldn't dissipate most likely (ectoplasm and water being possible exceptions) but the spell energy powering the construct would be gone, returning the construct back to whatever normal, inanimate state the material usually has.  A Wardhound for instance would become a stone statue of a Tibetan temple dog.

You will have to explain that last part to me.

Which one?  The one about leaving 'circle' traps, or calculating the complexity required for a construct?

Also, what if you use crafting to make the construct and you use a ritual to bind the spirit, or craft a heart that works like a cpu?

I'll go over the email exchange with Lenny with a bit more info once I have a chance.  Should be later on tonight.

-Cheers

I'm hoping it'll be up to at least Ghost Story (Otherwise it's just two books and maybe some short stories they're covering really).I'd really love it if Cold Days info was included, but I doubt it... :/

It is supposed to have some updated information from the novels, including an update of Harry as a character which there was a design contest on here for.  The winner was announced a couple of months back and they get their name(s) in the book plus a free copy of the book once it comes out.

IIRC there is also supposed to be additional setting material, like the Russian Revolution and the 'spooky side' of that, along with some stats for the late Senior Council member Simon Petravich (sp?) and possibly the Brute Squad of Archangel.  There might also be one or two locations within the Nevernever which make an appearance as well.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure whether the book actually ever says that the extra boxes go at the end. It attaches them to the right-hand side of every example stress track, though, and I generally assume that stress goes left to right.

While the book doesn't directly state where the bonus boxes for Toughness go, it can be pretty well determined by how boxes are allocated based off skills (or lack thereof).  A character with no skills, stunts or powers to provide extra stress boxes has 2.  If they have Average or Fair in the relevant skill, then they have 3, etc.  That indicates that it builds from the left, and with the stress boxes that work for everything.  Also, look at the write-ups in YS for creatures/beings with Toughness powers.  The write-up for a Hecatean Hag on YS61 is relevant to this.

Also the hit allocation order would IMO not be something which the player could get to decide, but have already been decided based off the Initiative order.

thats unfortunate that there probably will not be much more stuff released before paranet. the setting and books were very interesting. even if the casefiles cost a dollar or even five i would prolly buy them just becouse i am lazy and i want something already put together were all i do is sit down read throught it once or twice and i can play it at gamedays at  a local shop or conventions etc. i tried running neutral grounds at a gameday a couple months ago and everyone at the table had already played in it a couple of times at different cons.

sincerely
heath delashmit

There are a few free ones that other fans have already written.

Headless Horseman]http://www.epicwords.com/attachments/4675]Headless Horseman
Sleepy Hollow]http://www.epicwords.com/attachments/4777]Sleepy Hollow
Pizza Fight]http://www.epicwords.com/attachments/4471]Pizza Fight

Also there are a few more which due to time constraints haven't been polished off in terms of writing, editing and upload.  If you can give me an idea of what you're looking for in terms of power level, I can see what's available.

-Cheers

PS There had been some talk at one point of Evil Hat being able to/having the license for, additional For Sale case files.  I don't know if that's still the case or whether that's something Evil Hat is still looking to do for the future, I don't know.  As others have mentioned they already have a number of projects underway.  IIRC though they are planning a Fate Accelerated version of Dresden, and not a Fate Core version.