Now, another idea I had was for his main attack item.  I figured his elements would be spirit, water, and earth.  The main attack rote he has is a magnetic based where he grabs a bunch of specially prepared coins/shards of metal and blasts them at whoever.  Increase in shifts would represent higher velocity's of the metal.  I was thinking of having each of the shards prepared as a minature focus item, all adding up to onne big one.  How much do you think I would have make the total mass of metal to have it count as normal +1 focus item?

So, my game master just bowed out of the game he was just starting up.  Is there anyone else in the Atlanta area running/playing/interested in a Dresden Files game?  I just moved down here, other wise I would provide the players.

I realize that this is a bit like demanding a first class seat aftering being offered a free ride, but does anyone know about more source books coming out? 

This game is not Shadowrun.

I would hope not.  I'm trying to 1) get a group of people interested enough to play it and 2) learn the game so it can be played without multiple book checks.  I was simply using Shadowrun as a "4 hrs legwork for 1/2 hr combat" ratio example.  Thanks for the help to everyone, btw.

Ok, I got the PDA and have been reading over it, and I am a little confused about skills.

1.  Going by the setup in the book, the 5-4-3-2-1 setup of skills, before you could raise a skill a rank, you would have to take a new skill at 1 in order to be able to raise any of your other skills up a rank permanently.  Is that right, or am I reading it wrong?

2.  At minor milestones, you are able to change the rating of any two skills.  Going by the reading in the book, you can have Lore at superb for when you are doing research, with combat skills at 1, and then switch them out for when you know you are having a combat session.  I don't think that's the way it's supposed to be.