cant have a + outcome either and Cassandra’s Tears is a 0 refresh power... so even if you have the worse case as a 0 modify then your still looking at a 0 cost item... if you want to use a item of power you could add more till you get to a - refresh cost, play with it a a 0 cost or just take Cassandra’s Tears and set the aspect tied to it as something along the lines of seeing danger in the future.

myself I'm not against using separate consequences tracts... social consequences tend to be things along the lines of: Scared of Johnson, Publicly Humiliated, Can't Help But Like Smily, and the like... The idea is the feeling or disgrace lasts the length of the consequence. Myself I use one track... mainly cause I am a very compel heavy GM. If they had 2 tracts I could compel from I end up funneling to many FP onto the PCs. So I stick to the 1 track... occasionally my players do end up without a consequence slot they needed but hey that's the game. In general there is no long term negative for being taken out via social. The effect that was meant by the attack happens and it only lasts for the scene. So my players tend to not take much for social cons... they tend to just let them get taken out. But I don't see a huge issue with 2 tracks other then the over compels and self-compels. So if your not going to allow self-compels from the social track... I say go for it.

more or less i agree with you... mainly in there just for the role play value... realistically contain/bind would be ridiculous high shift spell... but it adds a cool element for a ghost so far gone its ridiculous... plus u have to do a high shift spell to get a possibility of them anyway... works in my game seeing as the general comp isn't high... take a hefty roll on the table on top of a decent spell... if it doesn't work at your table simple solution... remove comp levels 5-8

OK so I have a Ectomancer in my Group that wanted a table for summoning random or selected ghosts. I created this table. I thought I'd share it with everyone here if anyone needed something similar. At first glance I thought the table seemed overpowered but after some play testing I found that it has worked very well... as an example the shift cost for a guarantied comp 8 random ghost is 13 shifts. 1 for random and 12 for +8 Minimum. For a selected type of ghosts is 15 shifts. 3 for selection and 12 for +8 Minimum. Then on top of that all the regular summon, contain, and bind costs for thamaturgy are added on top of it. So the lower levels are much more realistic. I added the higher in just in case. It makes itself useful as well when you need a quick and dirty random ghost or your wizard pulls a local ghost to him to ask it a few questions about the night before. That way you don't have to spend the time writing out a ghost.

Hope everyone can make use of it if it works for your games. Enjoy.

http://www.filesonic.com/file/2749429145/Ghost_Summon_Tables.pdf

After you click the link scroll down and find the button on the right side of screen named slow download for free download. Click that and wait the stupid time till the link appears and download from there.

i wrote in parries but i meant to type dodges... with the stunt you can dodge spells, bullets, and blades with your hands or weps... kinda like deflecting bullets and the like. I believe parries can be made as you stated without the stunt but the stunt allows all default dodging to be made with a different skill.

for the sleep spell it would depend on how it worked for me. If the spell tired them out and they faint then physical. If it induced a mind fogging effect that makes them fall asleep then mental. If it was short term Id allow it to be made as a maneuver. Sacrificing shifts for extra exchanges that the target are asleep for.

I usually solve this problem with glamors instead of human guise. Human guises fail if you use your powers. The hulking vs Diminutive size i solve by simply making it less pronounced. For instance a hulking size orge changling gets glamored and looks like a near 7 foot tall man. a diminutive size pixie changling gets glamored and looks like a 4 foot tall small person. They don't blend particularity well... they are still noticed or even stared at but it just adds a flare to the game. You can still use the bonuses from the size categories that way. Also Human guise isn't perfect... there is something slightly wrong about the way you look... and can be noticed with alertness. Lots of characters and NPC villains have high alertness foe initiative. In a pig city it is understandable that the average joe would have a decent alertness. Have to watch out for muggers ect. A glamor is seen through with discipline. Less likely to be very high for the average joe.