I play an ectomancer musician in a PbP on another site and I though you might find his character sheet useful. He's not much in combat situations, but he's useful in social situations and investigation. The idea is that you're not spending much refresh on supernatural abilities with an ectomancer (-3 total, for Ritual (Ectomancy) and Ghost Speaker), so you can afford some other stunts as appropriate. The ectomancer cop/detective seems to be a fairly popular character type that both speaks to ghosts and holds his own in combat.

I don't think you'd need to worry to much about the extent of these aspects. If you take a stunt called something like Hi-Tech Arsenal or Nothin' Like Custom Made, they should allow you to make a declaration that you can tag as normal, but only one aspect per weapon per scene.

One character that might be useful is my jann lawyer character that I play in Amelia's Miami PbP.

Here are the magical mercenary ideas I have tucked in my file of character concepts:

Ryan Deklan - Merrow Mercenary: The scion of an aquatic ogre who runs a security consultant firm and does his damnedest to stay out of faerie business.

Markus Mars - Soldier Son of Ares: A demigod who inherited his father's prowess for violence and sells his services to the highest bidder.

Raymond North - Infernal Ex-Spy Troubleshooter: A demonic scion who used to work in a HUMINT capacity for the government until he was mysteriously terminated. Now he does odd jobs for people in need.

Sven Engström - Einherjar Valkyrie's Son: The scion of a valkyrie who inherited her powers but not her contractual obligations to Monoc. Works as a private contractor, but does a good bit of business with his mother's company.

The orks look great. Thanks!

Maybe we should take an example creature or Demon from another thread and see how each GM would rate it on a Complexity level?

That's fair. For the sake of convenience, let's use a low-level creature from Sanctaphrax's Generic NPCs thread. I'll use the Will O' The Wisp. Here are the various ways to stat it:

A) Take out it's best stress track (Social): 15
B) Generate an twice it's Refresh: 18
C) A+B: 33

Unless my math is wrong (which it very well could be; one shift per stress box, two per mild, four per moderate and six per severe, right?), it's prohibitively expensive to quickly summon a very minor pixie when adding both together.

In this case, I would use option A. If I were summoning the pixie for its abilities, I'd go with B. If this were a Will O- The Wisp Lord with higher skills or knowledge, I'd use C.

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I'd like to see a spy (Michael Weston/ Jason Bourne-type), a few nephilim (half-angels) in various fields, maybe even orks as a distinct species of Nevernever being.

Any of that sound workable?