First off, I got my physical copies of the books recently. -does the happy dance-

Now on to the actual point of this post. My D&D 3.5 group has expressed some interest in giving DFRPG a shot after me giving some explanation of what's going down in the Dresdenverse. None of them have read any of the books so, expect for myself, we'll be starting from the ground floor. I plan on running at least Night Fears to get them familiarized with the concept of Aspects, Stress and the conflict style if the game.

I was wondering what you guys think about a few things. I have one player who has expressed interest in setting the game in Shibuya prefecture in Japan but I know next to nothing about the area. I'm not sure if we should go straight for building our own city or if we should use Balitmore from Your Story.

As I was going through my old city sheets last night, and realizing how incredibly terrible they were. I dredged up an idea I'd had for my character in my old GM's Indianapolis game.

"Phantasm" Ball
Description: A rune covered golf ball that creates an illusion of the Tall Man from the motion picture Phantasm and induces a feeling of fear in a target(s).

I never did bother to flesh them out past the description since the group fell apart due to work schedules. Anyway, anyone have any ideas on how to flesh them out?

I'm trying to put together an IoP for a character I'm making as a back-up just incase my current PC gets taken out. Here's what I've got so far:

Book of Grimm [-?]
Description: An ancient leather-bound copy of Grimms Märchen (Grimm’s Fairy Tales) hand written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. It contains a wealth of knowledge on supernatural creatures.
Musts: You must have an aspect related to your possession of this item.
Skills Affected: Scholarship, Lore
Effects:
[-0] Purpose. The Book of Grimm was penned in an effort to educate the owner on the supernatural.
[-0] It is what it is. The Book of Grimm is a book. It can be read by anyone.
[-0] Unbreakable. This book cannot be destroyed except with a magical ritual predicated on perverting its purpose.
[+1] One time discount. It's a book. You can hide it in plain sight.

So I asked on twitter (I know, shame) if Gentleman John Marcone had any "business" interests in Louisville, Kentucky (where my game is set) and I recieved a polite threat from him.

"I trust that even in an imaginary sense you'll think to remind your players the consequences of damaging my property."

So I'm thinking that I may just have to add a sub-plot with Marcone fighting agains the Scilians in my game. Does this sound interesting to anybody?

Also, is it sad that I'm all excited about recieving a threat from a person that is supposed to impersonate a character on Twitter?

So I've got it insane obsession with anyting to do with Italy so, of course, in my game I'm using the Sicilian Mafia as the Organized Crime influence in my game. I was wondering what kind of ideas might be floating around in your heads that I might be able to use?

I'm planning a Warehouse 13 crossover in my adventure I'm building and I was wondering if anybody would be able to help me with stating out the Tesla and nutralizing goo.