I kinda took a break from following Jim and haven't read Peace Talks, so I'm quite out of the loop. Back before Peace Talks even had a release date, Jim was saying that the book lineup was:

Book 16 Peace Talks

Book 17: Mirror Mirror, about Dresden dealing with a world where he made a different significant choice.

Book 18: A mystery involving Professional Wrestling involving gods.

So what happened to these? Is Battle Ground the pro wrestling book? Because the blurb definitely doesn't suggest that. And what happened to Mirror MIrror?

I haven't heard any news about Dresden Fate Accelerated Edition since it was funded via kickstarter. They said the goal was to have it by the end of the year. Has there been news?

This is really bugging me because I can't find it. I recall there's a sidebar that lists all the signers of the Accords, at least that have been mentioned previously.

What page is this on? It's not on page 14 where the Unseelie Accord are actually discussed.

Alright, I'm looking at two powers (Feeding Dependency and Blood Drinker/Emotional Vampire).

Feeding Dependency explains everything with regards to Feeding Dependency. Emotional Vampire/Blood Drinker explains everything as far as those powers go (except that Emotional vampire doesn't mention doing stress or how to defend against it, etc, just explains the attack).

But there's no mention of how these two interact.

For instance, let's say I have Feeding Dependency and my Hunger Track is full. I can't use my feeding powers to, well, get rid of that stress. The only section that mentions Feeding is the Failure Recovery. Which is just a handwave of 'You're out of these scenes, you recover'.  Because the only way to remove the Hunger stress is to 1) succeed at the roll after a scene, 2) accept consequences and then heal them, or 3) wait til you go into Failure Recovery. Shouldn't I be able to remove Hunger stress by actually using the feeding powers?

As far as Emotional Vampire is concerned, you just make attacks (and get better at them) and if you kill a target you can get a free recovery period to clear a Minor consequence.

In fact it spells out that if you take feeding dependency you must take these powers. But what are you getting for that -1 to refresh? An additional +1 to rolls (and if you kill the option of removing a mild stress)?

What am I missing?

So I'm wanting to run a Dresden Files game at a convention. I've not run a convention game before, and yet I still want to give the system a whirl and show it off. But, I have looked at both free adventures (Neutral Grounds and Night Fears) and neither suit my tastes/thinking.

That means I need to design a scenario.

Now, as I understand con games go, it needs to be short. Simplistic. Simple plot, easy enough to be carried th rough with little to no places for hitches.

Also probably the easiest way to build it would be to start with a villain and work towards the PCs.

On the topic of the PCs. Because of the convention I'm going to, among the pregens I want to offer several with an animal motif. One or two weres, a pooka or kitsune based Changeling. Of course this raises the question of why PCs of that overall link are together in the same general place, and I don't know the in-game answer to that, or what their motivation is.

As far as the plot itself, I want to avoid the obvious "some evil sorcerer is going to/has broken a Law of magic".

Beyond that I have no ideas. Suggestions?  

I had an idea for a way to recreate Bob's "occult computer" for wizards, while keeping it small scale and different. Before I do, let me give you a frame of reference.

Think of a book you read maybe last year or the year before. Try to recall all the information you remember. It's probably decent but not great - you may recall most of it or the gist, but not many specific details. You probably can't remember a certain character's name, or let's say the exact numbers of a statistic.

Now think of a book you just read; it's fresh in your mind, and you can recall all that information. You could remember what happened point by point, but you still have to think about it, walking down the chain of events, or your brain follows connections. You think of a Character's name and all relevant information to that character comes up, and you have to go through it before you remember a specific thing you're thinking of. Or if you want a specific info, you brainstorm and it pops up. Also, while your mind wanders, tidbits pop up naturally - while in the shower you realize something that didn't make sense, and you have to ponder it out, or an unrelated thing reminds you of something from the book.

A Dresden-related example of this is Small Favor; Harry is trying to find out what were those goat-faeries that attacked him. He had to go through many books.

Now that's over, here's the idea:

Imagine taking every book you own and downloading it into your brain. All that information would not be immediate and photographic, you'd have to do the above like you just read it and are trying to recall one important fact. The strength of this is in cross-referencing: If Harry had known the name gruffs and page number, it would have been faster to grab the book and look it up the old fashioned way. But having a pool of 'goat-related faeries', it would have made things much faster for him since the pool of knowledge was small and in one place, not spread out.

This would probably reduce the amount of time for Lore or Scholarship rolls within someone's library.

The flaw here is that this mental database has to be in the room with all your books; you can't take it with you. Oh sure, the info is in your head now, but it's like the first instance at the top of this opst: there's real holes in your recall.

Is there Rune Magic covered in the books in a sidebar I can't find, or has it been discussed here?

I'm curious how rules for that work. Since it seems to be Massive potion-style magic item usage.