How well would Dresden magic system work in Fate Core?   What kinds of changes should I make?  Is there a better magic system for Fate Core?

I'm introducing some friends to Dresden.  I've made them some pre-gens and I'm setting it in 1994. I need a 6-8 session story arc.  I have lots of ideas but can't put them together to give the players a hook.

Here's what I have:
-Northern City;  gateway from South (civilization) to North (Wilderness) -Theme
-A run-down psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of town, surrounded by lots of bush.  It actually will one get shut down in 2012, so I thought I could use that.  Maybe there's a reason why they want it shut down?
-A University, also just on the outskirts surrounded by bush and lots of trails
-A missing person who went missing 30 years ago from the Psych hospital.  My plan is to make him a BCV.
- Some murders revolving around the BCV
-Organized crime and  a Crooked Construction Company
-A Social Worker/Psychiatrist working with the BCV.   But having a hard time with the connection.  Maybe also using or being used by the mafia.
- A Military NORAD Base  With a 1950s underground complex
-First Nations Spirituality/Mythology

PCs:
Cop (Pure Mortal)
Reporter (Pure Mortal)
Priest (True Believer)
Soldier RC Infected
Student with Cassandra's Tears and The Sight (minor talent)

Background:  In the 50s-60s Organized Crime used charitable organizations to run Bingo scams.  It was big business.  Connections to Sicilian mafia.  Mussolini cracked down on Mafia in Italy at that time.  A Don, also a BCV flees Italy and ends up in our town.  For several months, there are disappearances as the Don tries to set up his Scourge in this wilderness town.  But the local priest finds out about the Bingo scam and stumbles upon the BCV.  In the ensuing fight, The Missing Person from the psych ward who was turned into a Vamp is somehow 'put on ice' for 30 years.  He wakes up and is now working to further his goals. 

How can a BCV go MIA for 30 years?  What prompted him to awaken now?  How is he connected to the psychiatrist?  How does it relate to the hospital?

Any advice would be awesome.

Is this too powerful? To weak? It seems reasonable to me, but:

Distracted by Fear

If you use Intimidate to create an aspect on an opponent, (such as 'that guy is scary') you may tag the aspect to dodge that opponent's physical attacks with the Intimidate skill while the aspect exists.

Seems reasonable because it only works on targets with an aspect (and that aspect can be removed)
You have to spend an action to do a maneuver
It follows the rules of moving trappings.

I found this awesome website with a huge database of gods and pantheons.  More accurately, I friend found it and sent me the link.

Enjoy:

http://www.godchecker.com/

I haven't had piles of time to peruse but, I wonder, if something like this could be added to the Resource board?  Assuming it's as good a resource as it looks.

After having a long conversation about the intricacies/problems/hurdles of Social combat, I was wondering how other people run their conflicts and/or if they have any house-rules they've put in.

Also, if you could revamp it any way you wanted, how would you do it? 
(removing it from the game doesn't count as a solution!)

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I'll start a train of thought:

Presence as a passive skill.  It's weird and, its usefulness is dependent on how much your GM uses it.   How do you use the Charisma Trapping, for example?

I feel like First Impressions Trapping should be in presence instead of Rapport.

In fact passive skills are silly.  Alertness seems to work ok ...but 'The Tip Off' for Contacts?  or 'Info Dump' for scholarship?  They're great if you have a GM that actually considers them...do people even take stunts that boost those trappings?

This has come up before but the resolution has been that you can't block control rolls.

Control rolls are a defense against the stress from the spell.  Basically, you can't block a person from dodging.  So, I'd seen blocks on spellcasting as a way to block the targeting of an attack spell or maneuver(if the block is higher than the Power of the maneuver, but wouldn't prevent you from controlling the spell).  It wouldn't really hamper blocks too much.

I was perusing the Grappling page for another thread when I read this:

The
thug’s Might is Good (+3), and he rolls a +2
on the dice for a Superb (+5) grapple. Harry
is held. He decides that casting a spell while
grappled is too chancy, since the Superb grapple
blocks his target roll to control even a minor
evocation.

*the bold is highlighted in the book

The margin has this:

So even if I
was trying to
cast a, uh, Fair
spell, it’d be
as difficult as
trying to cast
a Superb one
when the block’s
that big?

Exactly right.

So, to my reading, even if I'm not targeting someone with a spell (let's say I'm putting up a 2-shift armour spell up to protect myself from the grappling damage), I'd need to succeed on a control roll of 5, even for a 2-shift spell.

Taking that further:  Does that mean, if I fail to meet the control roll, I take backlash/fallout as if I was trying to cast a power 5 spell?

Would this extend to any blocks on spellcasting?  Or just Grapples?

For instance, if I put up a Weapons block vs attacks on a wizard and they cast an attack spell.

I'm not sure if this is the best forum for this question but...this is kind of where I hang out, so:

In a few months I'll be on a trip that involves two straight 12 hour drives.

I figure the best way to keep two 9 year old boys busy in a car would be an rpg.

I tried D&D 3.5 with my son (which he loved) and while I kind of like the crunchiness of D&D with all its math (which will appease the other non-gamer parent we'll be driving with) I find that younger gamers have so much imagination that I find D20 games a bit too structured.

"you want to knock him off the ledge with Create Water...uh...that spell doesn't really do that...it just creates water."

So, does anyone have suggestions or recommendations for a game/adventure(s)/system?  Fate accelerated looked pretty straight forward as far as teaching a system.

I'm looking for something easy to teach, easy to organize and run in a car and easy-to-whip-up character creation.  (although, I'm tossing around the idea for pre-gen characters).  I'm also hoping to have lots of problem solving quests and less combat/killing.

Looking at the kickstarter that sanctaphrax posted, I noticed a game called Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Dragon.  It looked cool but seemed more like a story game than an actual rpg - but I might be wrong.  Does anyone have experience with that one?

Healing wounds and medical treatment is dealt with, pretty much, narratively in DFRPG.

You need 'an excuse to start the healing process' and, after that, consequences go away based on their severity and the amount of time that lapses (hours, days, weeks - or scenes, sessions, scenarios, milestones).

The doctor stunt lets you treat someone and give them 'an excuse to start the healing process' - but it doesn't actually heal wounds.

For the same refresh, you could take a recovery power or, for no refresh, you can take Wizard's Constitution.

I'd like to figure out a fair way to allow 'mundane' treatment affect consequences.  This thread is to brain-storm ways.

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First off, I don't think it should be as powerful as a recovery power - or even equal to a recovery power - especially since you'll be able to use it on other people.

Off the top of my head, I'm thinking of a tiered stunt - or a stunt in conjunction with a skill roll with a difficulty based on the consequence.

I'm thinking that, instead of curing a consequence, maybe it down-grades it?  I'm not sure if that makes it more powerful.  Used in conjunction with a recovery power, it could be very useful. 

Should it even stack with recovery?  Or would you take the better of the two?

Something like this:

minor consequence: Example: treating minor bleeding; helping someone recover from being dazed; shooting them with a pain-killer:   as a full action, with a roll of 'x' you can totally cure a minor consequence on a person.  You can do this 1/scene/person.  The roll can be resisted or blocked by someone actively trying to prevent you from providing first aid.

Moderate consequence:  Example: minor surgery; resetting a bone; lots of stitches:  requires one scene and a roll of 'x' and reasonably calm surroundings. Down-grade a consequence to a mild.  The new consequence must indicate that it's already a wound that has been mended and cannot, therefore, be removed with regular medical treatment.  Only a recovery power or time can help.

Severe consequence: requires a scene, a roll of 'x' and medical facilities.  Downgrades to a moderate.  Down-graded consequence can't be fixed via mundane methods.

Extreme:  Example: reconstructive surgery.  Provides an excuse to heal or re-name an extreme.  (maybe let's you do so a bit sooner than usual?

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I'm just trying to get the juices flowing...feel free to comment, critique or add whatever.


EDIT:

What about something like this:  it down-grades the consequence, but if you do something to risk aggravating the wound before it would fully healed, you have to make a scholarship vs (the attack?) or have it revert back to the more severe consequence....or something to that effect.