The new version seems severely under powered compared to the old one.

So Soulfire gives you focus item slots now? How many focus item slots does it give you?

I thought self inflicted stress ignored armor?

No, you're choosing to self-inflict stress upon yourself. You aren't the victim of a mental attack.

Cool.  What culture/region we talking about?

Right now it's supposed to be 1200-1500s somewhere in the UK. We haven't got everything 100% yet.

I had completely missed that. Good thought! Thanks

And I guess in Game terms, if you become full Fae you stop getting Fate points since you have no control over your destiny, which means every single aspect is useful only for the GM Compelling whenever they feel like (or there's a case to be made for their aspects being *continually* compelled), with no benefit to the player...

In game terms if you become full Fae you become and NPC.

Hi all

So, my Dresden game is finally starting this weekend, and I've got a couple of questions for people.

First up, one person (as yet unstatted) is playing (and I quote her) "Genderswapped Dean Winchester", so pure mortal who hunts things that go bump in the night.
She's never played Dresden before and I've never done anything with Pure Mortals before (nor GMed DFRPG), does anyone have any Stunt suggestions for us?
I was thinking of a Lore stunt something along the lines of Always Prepared: Spend a fate point to have on you/be able to improvise from the scenery a weapon that meets the Catch of any creature that you've just IDed.
Maybe even a weapons one for being able to leave the Catch weapon stabbed into the creature in order to lessen their powers/cause ongoing damage or something similar?

Since she's a hunter and one of her aspects (probably her HC) would reflect that, you can use that as a justification for these stunts. Because I'm going to assume she has at least a decent lore score. These two stunts are one from the 3rd Book, the Paranet Papers:

I Have Just the Thing (Lore):
Buttersis prepared for just about anything. When he makes a Lore assessment to determine something’s Catch, he happens to have something on hand made of that material, as long as it isn’t a one of a kind item or something intangible like True Love. If he spends a fate point, he’s found some way to weaponize even intangible Catches like True Love.

Find Weakness (Lore):
Butters adds +2 to any Lore roll made to assess a Catch.

Substitute her name in there and you have two awesome Lore stunts for a hunter.

The second one, three members of the group are playing Changelings (one Pixie, one Goat Gruff and one Redcap) and they're all going straight for "As Fae as possible", spending all of their points on Powers (they wanted to play full Fae but that's not really doable).
What do people think of the idea of making them all choose a Court (Summer, Winter or Wyld) that they are in some way tied to ("All those powers of yours, must be tricky to live in the Mortal world, how about we provide you with money, a refuge, that type of thing, and in exchange you do odd jobs for us" type of thing), since it's pretty obvious which way they would Choose and so the courts will no doubt want to get their hooks in early.

Reasonable idea, or just imposing unneeded restrictions?

Considering these players asked to be full Fae I would make their powers be tied to one of the courts and have to deal with whatever obligations that court would expect from them. Especially if they have super low adjusted refresh. They don't have a lot of "free will" (which is dictated by a PC's refresh) so it makes sense.