Ok, so there are two power concepts that I run across a fair amount in my fantasy reading, but that I have yet to figure out a good way of incorporating into the game.

1: Supernatural Luck: You know the concept: A character for whom everything just goes right. He can walk through the middle of a gunfight, and all the bullets just happen to miss him. He goes out for a walk and happens to trip over a briefcase full of money or the crucial piece of evidence to solve the mystery. His car never breaks down, he never gets caught in the rain, and even the birds always miss him.

Now, obviously this would be easy to implement by just giving a character loads of Fate points, but that feels a little too easy. I want there to be a catch to this power, some way in which relying on your power to tip the scales of Fate can come back to bite you. The best idea I've had so far is that taking this power also gives you an Aspect along the lines of "dependent on luck" or "weird luck", and that you cannot buy off Compels related to that aspect.

2: Inhuman Vulnerability: Taking things one step beyond the Catch, this is the case where not only do your powers offer no protection against a threat, but you are far more vulnerable than a human would be. For example, a lot of werewolf stories feature the idea that a werewolf is so vulnerable to silver that the slightest scratch from a silvered blade is death, and even touching it can burn. At the lower end, I imagine you could implement this with a "power" that gives certain attacks extra shifts of strength against you. For the higher end, I'm considering a rule that says that you can't take Consequences to buy off damage from whatever you're vulnerable to. You can still take stress hits (fluff-wise, because stress generally represents strain and near-misses rather than actual harm, crunch-wise because that keeps it from being quite so crazy brutal), but if someone actually lands a hit, they're taking you out.

Two things the system really doesn't handle, and one thing I don't understand.

1. Starting Equipment. How much and how good gear could a character realistically start with (stuff directly connected to their duty)? Up to their Resources? Lower? Higher?

2. How exactly would poisoned weapons work in this system. I assume the poison itself would work as described under Venemous, but what do you use for the "strength" of the poison?

1b. What precisely does "gain a +1 to the power or
complexity threshold on any spell intended
to inflict stress or consequences" from the Hellfire description mean?

So this is where I'll be posting my homebrew Stunts and Powers.

I'll open up with a couple of Powers.

Electrics-Friendly (-1). You have a magical affinity for technology, and your powers get along fine with it. You do not accidentally hex technology.

Were-Trousers (Okay- maybe this needs a more serious name) (-1, requires Beast Change or True Shapeshifting) You have learned to extend the morphic fields of your shapeshifting power to encompass your clothes and equipment. Whenever you change, they are incorporated into the change and are restored unaffected when you shift back to your human form.

And a couple of Stunts:

Sniper: (Stealth)Whenever you make a ranged attack against a target from hiding, they must make an Alertness check (opposed by your Stealth) to spot you. If they fail the check, they are not aware of your location and their defenses remain mediocre against you.

Just wondering: How would you model something like that pentagram the Nickelheads used to trap Ivy in Small Favor? My personal instinct would be to make it a block that degrades the trapped caster's Power ratings, probably starting at 0 and increasing by 1 every time someone casts a spell. Thoughts?