I need to read the book again but I thought

Nyarlathotep had one question on catches:

   Which brings up an interesting side question. Can you use feeding dependency as a Catch? I'm feeling too lazy to look it up.

  (I'm interested also but didn't want to derail the other thread.)

I have another:
 Can an Item of Power which grants recovery be its own catch?

Here's the version I went with...still a bit rough:

Jade Court
 Also called gaki, preta, jikininki, or simply hungry ghosts, Jade Court vampires prey on humans to remain physical. In their natural state, gaki are ghosts, spirits of hunger. To live, they dominate and possess humans, eating the dominated souls. As time passes, the possessed bodies become thinner, only-bone-and-skin, emaciated human beings with bulging stomachs and inhumanly small mouths and throats.  Once the possessed body deteriorates too much, they move on to another victim.

Common powers include:

• Soul Eater [-1] Similar to Emotional Vampire. Soul Eaters live on the essential human anima, the soul.
• Domination [-2]
  • Possession [-3]
• Spirit Form [-3]
• Feeding Dependency [+1] which will affect the following:
  • Illusion [-2] (As Glamours but based on mind control and mental magic.)
  • Inhuman Recovery [-2]

Combat effects are represented by maneuvers and consequences - dismemberment sounds like an extreme consequence to me.  I'd recommend simply describing the consequence in terms that fit the weapon and situation. 

DFRPG is too abstracted to show much mechanical difference between two different swords.  That shows up in descriptive flavor.

Here are a couple tutorials:

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• Combat
  
• Magical Theory
  
• Evocation
  
• Thaumaturgy
  
• Building Spells
  
• Specialties

Have to agree with you though...FATE may be 'light' but DFRPG isn't. 

Now, both the Channeler and the full on Thaumaturge can be Voodoo priests. Both of them can use the trappings of Voodoo, and both of them can come from that background. But one has gone WAY beyond the other.

Agreed.  One has far more learning / power than the other.  My point was simply that, to an external observer, there's very little to tell the two apart.  Both will look to voodoo rituals as the solution - one because that's all he can do and the other because he just that good at it.

Back to the point of the thread though - I still think the wizard chances Lawbreaker status (even if only in the eyes of the local Warden) simply because those consequences could contribute to the donor's cause of death. 

Premise:

• A willing sacrifice of temporary consequences is 'white' or allowable magic.
  
• A sacrifice causing death, willing or not, is 'black' or lawbreaking.
• A sacrifice resulting in death, even when unintentional is still 'black'.

Conclusion:  A sacrifice, contributing to death, is dark gray at best.  It would almost certainly be seen as Lawbreaking by wardens and would probably have the same mental affect as #3 above.  Given the tone of the books, I'd play it that way.

Nope. That character does not have Thaumaturgy. They got the much more limited Ritual: Voodoo Magic. Someone with Thaumaturgy is like a wizard; they can do Voodoo, summon demons, curse people, pull meteors from the sky, raise the dead, try to become gods, tear holes in the fabric of the universe and whatever else they could possibly imagine. That's another reason why wizards with enough experience to know how to use Thaumaturgy best are terrifyingly powerful.

Not certain I agree.  A powerful houngan or mambo (one with Thaumaturgy) could accomplish the same things as any other thaumaturgist, they simply use different trappings.  The houngan may sacrifice chickens and create a blood circle while a druid weaves his circle out of woven holly and the wizard simply uses salt.  The end result is the same. 

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On a slight tangent - assuming the wizard and werewolf pair in question have just completed their ritual and they're attacked.  The werewolf still has most if not all of the consequences, hasn't had time to heal.  If he is killed by one of the attackers who tags the consequences received from the wizard's ritual, how does that affect lawbreaker status?  Separately, how will wardens react?

Unrestrained or uneven growth can potentially be as damaging as fire.  Imagine how damaging mythically strong muscles would be if ligaments and bones can't take the pressure.  Or how difficult sudden extreme obesity would be to deal with.  Try walking with one leg grown to immense proportions...or holding a gun when your hand is suddenly larger than Andre the Giant's.  Most of those break one of the White Council laws, but you're a fae so do you care? 

Plants can entangle or even strangle.  Sudden growth of bamboo or other plants could be an attack.  Natural clothing (wool, cotton, leathers) could be grown into bindings, armor, returned to its natural (and growing state), or perhaps even be a weapon to attack the wearer.  Natural tools and weapons could be enhanced...or grown into uselessness.  Turning a polished oak dash in a luxury car into a full grown tree might be useful at some point.  Though it might be beyond most evocation.  Returning those snakeskin boots to temporary life may be easier.