No vanillas with magic items?

[Deadmanwalking]

What about a mortal character that goes a sort of magical James Bond and has a huge store of magical items, but only uses them as needed?  So he may own -30 worth of items, but doesn't use them all at once. Then as the need arises he picks and chooses the ones he needs for particular missions, never using more than say... -7 worth at a time.

Is that within the rules?

Uh...Modular Abilities as an Item of Power is (or can be) almost exactly that.

[Doc Nova]

Uh...Modular Abilities as an Item of Power is (or can be) almost exactly that.

That's actually a really neat, and elegant, idea for a James Potter...or Harry Bond...

The only issue I could see the OP having with that is owning an Item of Power invalidates the Pure Mortal thing...at least "by the book".  Granted, having that kind of power at the character's fingertips maybe should invalidate that, or at least invalidate the bonus +2 refresh.  Personally, I could live with calling myself a Pure Mortal and skipping the bonus +2, but still keeping the "title", so to speak.

[Deadmanwalking]

I don't think anyone would object to the title.

And if you actually need to go 'back to base' to re-assign Items you can probably get an additional +1 or even +2 Refresh out of that drawback.