Just a minor update, the first session of Mass: the Effecting is up, with the second soon to follow for those who don't mind our voices. 

For those who prefer to read, rather than listen to their actual play, there's an AAR written from one of the PCs perspectives.

We should be back on tonight, had some player illness preventing us from reconvening.

FATE Points are not a central important aspect of the FATE-System?

No, they're only a part of the system. I get rather sick of the "Aspects for everything!!" meme I see bandied about a lot with FATE. If the leading part of the system is Aspects and the FP economy, you have vague, nebulous mush, not recognisable structure. Aspects play a part, but they are not the most important thing and certainly not the only thing as some people seem to believe.

About skills using importants:
Let's J.B. knows she will have to spend some time in the wilderness alone but she doesn't have any survival. She spends a day reading the PAthfinder outdoor guidebook and puts a "read up on the topic" aspect on her and later tags that and invokes her choosen of the ghaleb duwr aspect to reach her obstalce of 4. That shows you exactly how she does it.  You have an in-game reason why she made the roll. Someone with a 4 in survival would have been able to just save those FPs. I don't see the problem there. The imersion is not broken and everyone is happy. Spend FPs generate more story. It's cooler to remember that one time when the red court killed your wife to fuel your strike with anger. To use his limb leg to trick him into your feint and then hit him with The Blade of Love for a loooot of damage rather say, i attack him with my sword.

The rulebook says. Aspects are the most important attribues of your character. It says who your character IS. If you don't base your story around them you are robbing the players of a valueable ressource and of cool.
The ghosts attacked J.B. because someone send them to get her BECAUSE she is the chosen of the earth spirit. This is a compel. Her live got harder because of WHO she is. If she doesn't get a FP for that you are cheating her of a ressource. There are only so much slots for aspect and then to not get rewared for them is bad.
The trouble aspects aren't there for fun, there are there to create trouble for the PCs. If they are not involved in the story then why have them? The story should be about the characters right? Aspects are about characters so use them, they are an excelent tool.

A game without a lot of Fate-points is a more gritty game, at the same time it has a lot less conflict (compels generate conflict and drama and suspense). When you compel a lot you have more drama and the PCs have the ability to shine, to be heros and defend opponents that are bigger than they are. The whole bookseries is about harry getting kicked around a lot so that he can succeed in the end. the game should emulate that and it does perfectly if you use it.

It also takes a lot of work from the GM because he doesn't have to have the whole plot ready. just a startscene and a good idea on how to compel the shit out of the players.

But that is just me coming from a Burning Wheel high and applying a lot of the ideas to this system - mainly to use it as it is written and the tools it gives me to the fullest. I still really enjoy your podcast and in some part i feel terrible for telling you "how you should run your game" - i don't want to do that. I just saw that one of your players had problems and that you generally have a low ammount of fate points and wanted to help with this problem.

We missed some Compels in that session (as well as other things) because we were rusty having had six weeks off. But that doesn't mean we're somehow playing the game "wrong" because we aren't deluging everything with FPs. As above, a game where the economy is high volume will tend towards Aspects being the only thing that matters, and to me that's boring.

FATE is built on three pillars: Aspects, Skills and Stunts/powers. You over-use the first to the detriment of the other two.

The number of Compels and volume of FPs cycling through the economy really is a matter of taste for each table. There's five players and we tend to follow along a vague plot, so unless everyone tries to hog the limelight with their self-Compels, the opportunities for them are more limited.

Not only that, this was our first session back in six weeks, we were all a bit rusty. Listen back to previous sessions which had a much more active movement going on.

In any case, a game where the only thing that really matters is your number of FPs (which is what happens with high volume economies) doesn't really appeal to me. They should be a relatively limited resource to apply when and where it really matters, not a basic currency necessary for every action your character engages in.

Something else to add, Mortal Stunts should not be as "sticky" as supernatural Powers are. Powers usually reflect some fundamental part of your nature, and are hard to come by. Stunts usually represent training or proclivities which can be changed over time.

I play one of Vlad Drakul's by-blows, and to the Sight he looks monstrous much like Kincaid (his half-brother) does. Big, burly, horned and possibly winged.

No.

Look, BBF is totally underpowered if you aren't using it more or less every time you attack. So if you take it, you should be carrying more swords than a sword store. And you should use a new one every exchange.

The reason I was unsure of its balance is that it could be underpowered due to its big drawback or overpowered due to its universal applicability.

And yes, Killer Blow sucks.

I could see that working in a more humorous game, where the PC could have a "weapons caddy" who carries a big bag of arms around with them.

"Hmmm, the bastard sword this time, Manners."

"Sir, you broke the bastard sword when we fought that slime demon last week."

"Oh, I liked that sword. Alright, how about the Scottish broadsword?"

PS: @Kiero: Have you read the stunt creation guidelines for DFRPG? It sounds as though you are working from the rules of other games here.

Honestly, not in any real detail, I'm going off what I've done in other FATE games like SBA/LoA and SoF.