Yes, powers should be at least roughly even with each other on a refresh cost. Powers seem to me that they are just things you can use to give rules to back up character and creature traits, with templates just being guide lines to give people ideas on what their character can be and how the system works.

A fair bit of effort seems to have gone into explaining what makes a balanced stunt and how to create new ones. Logic seems to follow that powers should be the same way. Refresh spent on stunts and powers is also how the GM section tells you to balance encounters and threats.

I'd love to help. It's been a few years sense I've played around with .Net and it would be nice to get back into it, even if it's only on the testing and debugging side.

I think it's only the Sidhe that are restricted to telling the truth. Doesn't Harry in Summer Knight have to make the Malk in Undertown repeat something three times to make sure it's the truth or something?

I'm of the opinion that a white board is invaluable. I never used to use one but once I did they rapidly got bigger and bigger from a little one just to track initiative on, to a 2x3 one to one I likewise raided from a school that was surplussed. Now it takes up all the space over my mantel and I still want another one. Very useful, very addictive.

For Dresden I love being able to quickly sketch up zones, attach aspects to areas, and track NPC stress and aspects. I'm not sure if most boards will do it but mine is magnetic so I can use colored magnet circles to track all the characters involved very easily.

It would have to be fae food for that to apply, which I imagine is blatantly not anything near our level of food. A banquet from a PB&J sort of deal, maybe. And they're giving it to homeless people? I can see it more for the minor group that you're discriminating, they may not be as discerning as normal fae nobility. Assuming that they have a theoretically limited resource in fae food and they could do much better say, as a catering group doing a pro bono gig for a charity dinner consisting of all the rich and famous in the city. You may have to set it up a bit specifically to make sure that it's clear that the person is receiving the food from them specifically to generate a debut to them, but I think it could work. It makes me wonder though if you need to know that you're receiving something from a fae to be indebted to them or not.

Also, it doesn't seem very in keeping with the fae to deal with the homeless. I could see some kind of thing where the fae go to those homeless who are truly down on their luck so to speak but have done great things or have the potential to be great if they were given a chance to get their life together.

We didn't get to hear his justification for healing, but warming seems a bit out there. I imagine he wanted to be a pyromancer so he can throw fireballs. Seems like a downside of his decision. If it's just warming like you said I could see it. But bruses, cuts and broken bones. Beyond that healing has been shown to be extremity difficult and requiring special focus. Enough that Harry didn't even want to try it out because he was afraid he may screw it up. I can definitely see heat redirection. There's a good example of that in White Knight where fire magic is used to freeze water.

I like the phoenix idea though. The player is overstepping their focus a bit but it's still something that vaguely fits thematically. Tack in some greater spirit that they have had contact with or know how to invoke and can build up some kind of debut with. Sounds like a great solution to me, giving the player what they want with a good explanation while adding story hooks and complications.