What are some examples of Common Rituals?  I have allowed players to draw Protective Circles, conduct Exorcisms, bless water to make it holy (using Conviction instead of Discipline), and charms that effectively add an Aspect.  Are there any other ideas that other people on the board have done that they would like to share?

I assume most campaigns on this forum limit a White Court Vampire's vulnerability to the opposite emotion to the emotion they can incite (example, True Love if they can incite lust, True Courage if they can incite fear, etc...

Has anyone on the board run it so that all True "good" emotions act as their Catch?  Did it go well?

How do people treat tasers and other shock weapons in Dresden?  What sort of Weapon value should they have?

On a similar note, how do people treat poison?

I am running a Dresden RPG where the PCs are all agents of Monoc.  The team is based out of the regional North American office in New Orleans.  Their case officer is Magdelena Hvid, a Valkyie. 

The city has a contract with them to act as a Supernatural SWAT team (the chief of Police came up from Special Investigations, and the mayor belongs to an official recognition that mixes Voudoun with Christianity; more people are in the know thanks to the Voudoun influences than you might expect in a more typical game). 

There is also a very small cell of FBI agents who are in the know (less than a dozen) who are using off book funding to finance the war on the cartels that are controlled by the Red Court* (the official cover is the War on Drugs).  Given the small number of agents that they have, with limited strength since they are mortals, occasionally they hire Monoc for some of these missions (plus Monoc operatives are deniable if they get caught operating in Mexico or Central America).

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The characters have 11 Refresh and 40 skill points.  The characters so far are:
-a British SAS Commando from World War II who died and was brought back from the dead by Anubis as his emissary (military skills, Sponsored Magic, Marked By Power, Ghost Talker)
-an archaeologist who deciphered a StarGate-like device that opened a gate to part of the NeverNever inhabited by the descendants of an ancient Egyptian culture. He was trapped there for several years and taught himself Thaumaturgy by deciphering Egyptian runes.
-a Native American scion of a skinwalker that can adopt the shape of any animal that she touches, as long as it's dead. The reason they have to be dead is if the animal is alive, she absorbs their mind as well.  She did this with a mountain lion that was still alive early on in her career, and the mountain lion is permanently etched into her psyche; she occasionally has to battle for control with the beast for control, but she can also borrow its traits with out fully transforming, such as Echoes of the Beast and it's speed or even its claws.
-A cambion (half-incubus) with inhuman strength/toughness, retractable bat wings/claws, epic seduction skills and a feeding dependency on lust.
-A mortal that was granted the ability to shapeshift into a cat, a seal or a hawk because of a bet made between three fey who wanted to see whether land, sea or air was the most advantageous
-a Pure Mortal soldier, inspired by Hannibal Smith, with strong tactical skills that was disavowed by his agency after learning about the supernatural

There are also three Einhenjar NPCs which have a suspicious resemblance to the Warriors Three from the Thor comics, but with guns.

I'm trying to think who else might hire Monoc.  Any suggestions from the board?

Are there rules for making holy water?  Specifically:

Can a Pure Mortal priest/nun/rabbi/imam who isn't in the know make "actual" holy water just by using his High Concept and a Conviction roll, or does he need a Conviction stunt? 

Is the ability to create holy water available to anyone with a Faith Power? 

Does holy water that is removed from a church lose it's holy quality at sunrise/sunset?

Can you use thaumaturgy to create holy water?

This is an idea I had for crossing over Sin City into the Dresdenverse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_City

The version of Sin City that exists in the Dresdenverse has parrallel versions of the characters in the series.

The Roark dynasty is a branch of the White Court vampires that feed off of greed.  They control the city.

The first "player character" is Marv.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marv_(Sin_City).  His good friend Dwight tells us that "most people think Marv is crazy. He just had the rotten luck of being born in the wrong century. He'd be right at home on some ancient battlefield swinging an axe into somebody's face. Or in a Roman arena, taking his sword to other gladiators like him."

In the Dresdenverse continuity, this assessment is more accurate than even Dwight might know.  Unknown to all, Marv is an amnesiac Einherjar Changeling of the White Court.  His father was a Frost Giant.  His mother was a Valkrie.  The "union" was not consensual.  Marv was abandoned and left for dead, but he survived the winter and was found by Vikings who raised him as one of their own.  When he came of age, he joined the ranks of their warriors and became one of their most ferocious warriors.  Eventually, he fell, and was brought to Valhalla.  Unfortunately, his Frost Giant lineage was detected, and he was denied entry to the afterlife.  His spirit was supposed to be cast out into the netherealm, but his mother snuck him into Midgard where he was reincarnated. He is literally a lost soul, and ends up in Sin City, deprived of his memories.  He's not happy here in Sin City, but at least he belongs...

Marv (10 Refresh, 35 skill points)
High Concept: Lost Einherjar Changeling of the White Court
Trouble: Sometimes I Get Confused
Background: Right at home on some ancient battlefield, swinging an axe into somebody's face.
Rising Conflict: Living on Borrowed Time
Aspect 1: "That's a damn fine coat you're wearing"
Aspect 2: "Is that the best you can do, you pansies?"
Aspect 3: The Hard Goodbye

Skills:
Superb(+5): Endurance, Fists(HtH Melee Wpns)
Great(+4): Athletics, Might
Good(+3): Alertness (+5 vs Surprise and for Initiative), Stealth
Fair(+2): Driving, Guns, Intimidation (+4 to Brush Off)
Average(+1): Contacts, Conviction, Lore, Presence, Survival

Powers:
[-4] Supernatural Toughness
[-2] Inhuman Recovery
[+3] The Catch: Fire & The Trappings of Summer

Stunts:
On My Toes
Paranoid? Probably
No Pain, No Gain
Extensive Training
Lethal Weapon
The Brush Off

Stress:
Physical OOOO[OOOO], 2 extra mild, 2 armor; Mental OOO, Social OOO

Total Refresh Cost: -9

The Tattoos of St Giles are supposed to be exclusively for Red Court, but has anyone ever tried adapting a similar idea for White Court vampires and Virgins? In theory the same ritual could be used to keep the demon within a White Court Virgin in check.  Perhaps they could be named for St Dymphna, the patron saint for mental illness?

Thoughts?