My Crafter (a character many here have helped me with) has a Masters in Chemistry so he knows a lot about mixing mundane chemical compounds in addition to his high Lore. However I just realized that I wasn't using that back story on my character sheet so I took away a few enchanted item slots and slapped on a stunt: Chemistry Major: Can roll Scholarship to create chemical compounds. I like him being able to make magical as well as "normal" things with nearly equal skill, but I'm struggling to think of practical applications of chemicals due to the fact that I personally hated Chemistry in High School and know very little about it.

My character has a Scholarship of Superb (5) so he has a fairly useful lab, but are there any useful chemicals that I could make by myself? In my mind I'm imagining rusting locks, opening a jar and have the contents react with the Oxygen to through up a smokescreen, throwing hydrochloric acid in at someone, etc., but how much of that is conceivable? I'm not asking anyone to do any extensive search for me, if it comes down to it I'll suck it up and wade through Wikipedia to find stuff, but does anyone remember enough from their High School or College Chemistry classes to say whether or not this is plausible? When playing Dresden we of course overlook whether things are perfectly realistic to make the game less tedious and more fun but I'm not sure if what I have in my mind is completely ridiculous or not. Thanks for the help in advance.

It depends on which kind of Orc the OP had in mind, the way I see it there are three main interpretations (or rather three interpretations from popular franchises): the evil murderous horde from Lord of the Rings, the shamanistic and honor bound green skins from Warcraft, and the near insane blokes from Warhammer (I know the least about these as I have only read the wikipedia article on them once).

If you want the Tolkien orcs I would use Ghouls as a starting point. But maybe make them a bit weaker and just have them appear in greater numbers with a different catch.

If you have more of the Warcraft orcs in mind than I'd give them maybe a variation of Seelie magic and make them strong, tough, but not crazed bloodthirsty savages. They would have their own social structure and style of government and be fairly independent as a faction.

Yet another option is to make up what you want orcs to be. Whatever best fits the feel of your campaign. However I would steer clear of making them associated with the fae in any regards (unless you have a different interpretation than mine). In my mind most of them wouldn't scheme and think of twenty different ways to screw you over, they would be more straightforward than that. Heck, you could even just borrow Blizzard's plot for them and have the orcs be a displaced race searching for a home, and just tough luck to anyone foolish enough to get into their way.

I did shorten the Enchanted Items to "Earth Maneuver, Spirit Block, etc." to save space and I thought it was easier to see the math this way. I also did mean the Pre-release PDF, but I had no idea they re-released it, I'm going to look into that now (feel kinda stupid regarding that one).

I was thinking of a few ways to nerf my guy, and some of those ways were suggested. I thought I should drop the power to eight so I don't exceed the skill ladder and dropping the frequency (suggested by wyvren) was the easiest solution so I'll do that and see where that leaves me. Thank you all for your advice.

However a couple other questions just occurred to me as I was re-reading the Crafting Section. 1. What would happen to my items and potions if I went through a threshold uninvited? I assume they would be effected by the same difficulties that normal Wizards would face, but I'm not sure because I have already imparted the magic into the items, it is just waiting to be released. 2. Would strong potions set off the same "alarms" strong focus items or strong enchanted items would. I know the book states that those able to detect such items consider a strong focus item equivalent to a gun, but are potions significantly harder to detect? I've only read the first three Dresden books so far but from that it seems that much of the strength of potions comes from the mundane ingredients and the magic inputted is akin to adding the finishing spices, just a pinch is enough.

Thank you all for your input once again and I apologize if these answers can be found in the book and I'm just not looking hard enough.

Ok, so it sounds like the bonus to Might modification was meant more for stuff like breaking and entering (modifying Burglary).

That seems correct to me with the slight addition that a character's aspects also reflect his back-story. If a character grew up on the street and tangled with cops on an almost daily basis it wouldn't make sense for him to have the aspect "Always help the cops".

I have also heard, though am not sure of this at all, that players can compel other players, but as I have said I'm not sure. I can't find it in the book (though I am fairly tired at the moment) one way or the other and I can't remember where I heard it. Hopefully someone with much more experience than I has more information on this subject.

Why not just put seven refresh in Modular Abilities?  That will give you five points to move between True Shapeshifting and possibly Flight when you're shapechanging and five points of spell casting when you're not.

You can't use Form Points for spellcasting, just "Creature Features (page 162), certain Minor Abilities (page 169), Speed (page 178), Strength (page 183), and Toughness (page 184)" (YS 177).

While I'll concede that my idea needs some work, I wouldn't call it "horribly broken".

To get the same effect that I put into one power you would need to take:
-3: Evocation
-2: Ritual
-2 to 3: (probably 3 the more I think about it): modified True Shape shifting
-6: Modular ability w/ 4 points
+1: Human Form
Total:-13

Way more than the -9 I said, so to fix this I propose breaking down the power into it's individual parts, allowing the Druid to upgrade it in the way he/she wants to:

-6: Druidic Magic
Pick 1 evocation magic (Earth, Water, or Air)
Comes with the Wildness Thaumaturgy type
Can shapeshift into one animal with a 2 point modular ability pool
Comes with two focus item slots
-1: Take an additional Evocation type
-1: Take an additional animal form (Not sure about this one)
-[varies]: Add X points into modular ability pool

This would allow for a Druid to focus on being a mage (using the extra refresh to buy Refinements), a stronger beast (buying more modular ability points), or have a few different skill set-ups (buying more animal forms).

The new breakdown:
-2:Channeling
-2: Ritual
-4: Modular Ability (2 point pool)
-1: Beast Change
+1: Human form
+1: Took away two of the given focus items
Total:-7, I then took away one more point due to the fact that Sponsored Magic is cheaper than the sum of it's parts

Adding one refresh for an additional animal form may still be too cheap, but I think two refresh is too much as for merely one more you can simply take True Shapeshifting. I don't think that True Shapeshifting fits the Druid idea too well, wouldn't make much sense for him to turn into a stapler. So another option would be, instead of charging one refresh per form, simply charging 2 refresh for several animals, but not a nearly indefinite number like True Shapeshifting.