I did just find an instance of some pretty significant healing in the book but considering who did it, it may not be something that is in the reach of PCs.

You or your GM will have to wait until you have the game in hand, read our discussion of why it might be tough, and then decide if our ideas of why it's tough hold water in your version of the Dresdenverse.

ah well, we'll have to be patient. 

It's must-ish. They have very poor control over their appetites.

A ghoul PC would almost have to be one that has found a way to control said appetite by some special mean then...

Oh, and I just noted this "Inhuman, Supernatural, or Mythic Strength, Speed, Toughness, or Recovery" in the changeling template.  I like the fact that there are "gradations" in the "more than human" physical abilities

To get back on track...

There are a few supernatural creatures that have been better covered that may make good PCs. 

is probably a Valkyrie.  was a half Djinn I believe.  I saw someone on a blog that was listed to this site where a ghoul was used...   Would all this work easily in the game?

Hello

Given how I've accidentally hijacked the other thread, I thought perhaps I should start a new one instead of hijacking it *again* 

But it is an important topic anyway!

How does healing work in the Dresden Universe?  Can magic do it? 

Thank you!

I had noted the differences in stress track length between SotC and character sheets posted for Dresden Files characters, but I had attributed that to me not understanding the system.

I imagine that this would be very easy for the GM to adjust to his preference. 

but I'm curious if the power level of, say, Evocation is in part dependent on the fact that you're not allowed to kill people.

Hello

This is a bit of a tangent, but I feel it's an important question on the "feel" of the system.

In some systems (let's say, many editions of D&D for example), some attacks are too weak to kill a foe, period.  For example, if you threw a dagger, and you're not particularly good at it, at a tough dwarven warrior, this will not kill him, period.  You may hurt him, you will certainly anger him, but he has too many hp, that even with a critical hit, he won't die from it.

In some other systems - and in real life! - even a somewhat weak attack has the potential to kill.  There was a court case in Ottawa a few years back where someone sucker punched someone else, and the single blow ruptured a blood vessel in the victim's brain, and he died on the spot.  That is perhaps an extreme example, but say if I shot at someone with a weak gun, like say a .22, I would still be charged with attempted murder - even though it' s a "weak bullet", it can still kill.   In warhammer frpg 2nd ed, each attack has the potential of having its damage "explode", so an arrow from a puny goblin has a small, but not negligible, chance of slaying a mighty armored knight. 

This is a pretty important question.  If you do it D&D style, the PCs can feel more heroic... but sometimes to the point where it is very plot disruptive.  It can lead to "so what the bad guy is pointing his gun at me and telling me to freeze, I can take the damage!" kind of thinking.   If you use a more realistic system, it can lead to more realistic roleplaying - if someone is shooting at you, it's *bad*, no matter how tough you are.  On the other hand, the adventure can be derailed by an important NPC (or PC) being killed by a rock thrown by some puny goblin punk.

So... how does this work in Fate 3.0?   To get back to the topic at hand, if we are closer to option two, it means that you can't really ever throw aggressive evocations (say, like beams of fire) at other humans because you risk killing them - in other words, you can't use it to soften them up - not without risking breaking the laws of magic.

Hello

I have two questions.

1:  Can a supernatural being also be a spellcaster?  For example, could a were-fox be a sorcerer as well?  Can a white court vampire be a focused practitioner on top of being a vampire?  Could a rabbi (true believer) also be a kabala master?  Or do the mystical powers "muddle" one another?

2:  This is a comment/question about the focused practitioner.  I once played an alchemist a long time ago in a Gurps game with a home brewed magical system, that was pretty open ended.  Although being an alchemist was supposed to limit me, by being fairly creative, my character ended up being able do do almost anything he wanted.  I want to heal?  Healing potion.  I want to attack someone?  Greek fire.  I want to snoop around?  Invisibility potion.  Etc etc.  Anyway, all this to say that a focus on a *method* of magic (as opposed a type of magic) isn't always such a limit.  Mind you, if you don't have the proper potion handy, you're kinda screwed... So anyway, would this be "OK" in the system, or would this be abusive? 

cheers,

Ancalagon