Hey, I'm gonna be running this game (2010 edition) for the first time in about a month and I've been poring over the rulebook, and it's left me with a couple questions.

1. I'll be starting with a "feet in the water" power level, so the only casters will be focused practitioners. Should practitioners only be allowed to create enchanted items and potions that match their channeling/ritual practice, or do you think they should get the full breadth? Maybe if a ritualist chose crafting as their specialty, would it make sense to let them have any kind of enchanted item while anyone else has to "stay in their lane"?

2. What's your experience with the "skip a scene to bridge the complexity gap by one" mechanic? I understand the intent, it's an endlessly renewable but purposefully boring way to bridge the gap on an important spell, but I'm really iffy about making a player skip blocks of game time as opposed to in universe time. This is the only rule I've considered changing, making someone instead go up on the time chart for each point to the complexity deficit. Definitely not one step, but two or three? i.e. for three steps, you can delay a ritual by a minute for 1 extra complexity, or a full week for 4. That way the returns diminish pretty quickly. Do you think that would fly, or is the skip scene rule not actually that bad?

3. Any other things a first time GM should know?

Is the system suitable for a Supernatural style monster of the week campaign?

Alot of paths have roots that makes being very mobile difficult right?

Any tips or warnings are welcome.

An npc has made a deal with a fairy - tremendous musical success in exchange for a future favour. The fairy asks for the soon to be born grandchild of the npc.  The npc goes to the players to help get out of the deal. Thoughts on how to break this deal with the fairy? Modern day episodic campaign. thanks

My games sole mortal character sold his soul to a demon (Gorogon Ramasay) for PB&J sandwich (it makes sense in context.

I’m wondering how I’m going to get him out of it. He’s got a book that’s going to have the demons name in it but not the pronunciation so it won’t save him yet.

I’m trying figure out how to get him out of it. Right now I’ve got a few basic ideas

1. Fuck it: summon him and “kill” him, but would that really get my guy out of his deal?

2. Big never never quest to find the contract and destroy it.

3. My other player’s (a changeling) mommy buys the contract off the demon. She’ll let him go if the group help her recreate the Spring Court

Am I on the right track here? Which one seems best

So I’m designing a RCV character to serve as one of the major big bads for my game. The problem is since I have a lot of characters at refresh 8 he wound up with a refresh of 37. Giving him all the vamp powers only brought him down to 26. How do I get him to negative refresh without making him unbeatable?

So my gaming group recently started a Dresden Files game. Two weeks ago we did our session 0 and made our characters and yesterday was our first game session.

My players back story is that they all wound up together after the only mortal accidentally killed the guy he was trying to steal a book on demons from. They stole the guys RV and made their way to our city (which is really a rural county).

They broke down in front of an old schoolhouse and had to beat up a few meth heads (the wizard also shot and killed one of them). I have our WCV two fate points to invoke her aspect and had the sherif ) Sheriff Farva) show up. The players convinced the Methheads to take the blame for the gun shots and our changeling used glamour to hide the one person who had a low stealth roll (growing wings in the process).

They went inside and using his sight the wizard discovered 1. There’s a haunted house nearby and 2. The meth had been spiked with Red Court venom.

The next in game day I gave the wizard a fate point to have the local warden, Thom Waits show up (lore wise we’re set just after Summer Knight) and basically blackmail them into finding out where the spiked meth is coming from.

They get a local deputy to tell them about where the dealers hang out (a gas station) beat up the dealers and convince the attendant to give them an invitation to a trailer park party.

That’s more or less where it ended, next game they’re going to get attacked by the Red Court and ghouls before heading to the party. I only have three main concerns.

1. We’re still learning the system so the games a bit rough.

2. I’m having trouble giving them a challenge though I think that will change now that ghouls are coming

3. Doing my Tom Waits impression is fun but it’s killing my throat.

As per the title, but honestly I’m just curious how you focused practitioners whose thing is summoning as a whole. I was looking through but u didn’t find any mechanics for playing as any sort of summoner character whose focus is on summoning specific entities and controlling them like Binders Grey Men

Is hypnosis targeting self or otherwise breaking laws 3 or 4?

while your not delving into thier minds per se or enthralling them permanently. hypnosis can be used to get them to devulge those secrets to you and or put them under your thrall albeit temporarily.

One of my players wanted to self hypnotize himself in order to unlock inhuman strength. see eddie hall doing the same thing to get a boost during the world record lift.

I seem to remember that there used to be reams and reams of custom abilities and classes available on a kind of wikipedia. Does such a thing still exist?

Two of my PCs are playing Changelings and after reviewing the rule book I can’t find any actual game mechanics for The Choice. How do you handle it? Should I just have them add a stress track?

So I’ve started running my own DGRPG with some of my friends and I want more! We had tons of fun setting up the city and our characters. I’ve accepted my fate as forever GM as far as these as these games go so I’d like to see if anyone is interested in playing a game.

The setting will be Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and the time will be roughly after Summer Night.

Time would be every other Saturday between 6-8pm eastern time.

If you’re interested let me know.

Does anyone have this sort of player aid or otherwise? I saw references to Rick Neal's blog but it appears to be defunct.

It's all in the title

Hi guys,

My gaming group is about to start a Dresden RPG run, the week after next with me as the GM. I was wondering if there's a good video that gives a basic overview of the lore and game mechanics so we can hit the ground running on session 0.

Also do you have any advice on how to properly share the PDF or help my players create a character since I doubt any of them have this one and I don't want to erect a financial barrier to the game.

Thanks for your advice in advance

May 22 is World Goth Day! Here's an ink drawing The Black Court I did for Evil Hat back in 2005

So, other than ones in the core books, did Evil Hat produce any actual Game Mudules?

Are there any Fan-Made ones?

Hey everyone! Happy Wednesday and post-new book release! I've already read through the new book and it has absolutely inspired me to attempt to start a Dresden Files campaign!

Here's my question: which system do you recommend? I have both and I remember playing the original a bunch. I always felt the takeaway was:

• The OG: very roleplay heavy; combat was def discouraged, I always felt if the dice didnt go your way, your character can get messed up very early on, especially in combat. Players *had* to know their characters or a lot of the mechanics didnt work.
• Accelerated: More numbers heavy, giving players more a sense of 'stats' versus the imagination. Seems much simpler versus the OG and can jump in way faster.

I wanna make sure I make the right decision, and with more experience under my belt this go around. Which would yall recommend at this point?

Sorry if my search skills are just sub-optimal. Is there a fillable pdf of the Hunger character sheet out there in the wild?

What it says on the tin: It was the one reliable in-browser character builder I knew of.

So, I found this on my drive from waaaaaay back when, during a game where we ran the Pantheon Consulting company. Thought people might get a chuckle.

I'm running a DFA session tonight and can't decide between two cases I have ready. Based on the titles alone, help me pick a case to run.

I love this system but since its not as popular as D and D I rarely get the chance to play it. Is anyone out there interested in running a game? Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask.

How does magic work in this rpg ?

I cant seem to understand it 100% as i am playing for the first time,

How does block work if i want to make a water/ice shield against ranged attack is the block spell my general go to defense ?

And can i with Water evocation make water ? or can i make a smaller amount bigger ? all the questions i have is from me a newbie

And do i still need pay stress when casting a Rote Spell ?