That's what I thought, but we wanted to make sure we weren't doing it incorrectly.

I'm running a 1920's campaign and I'm going with a story that Grevane (after his master was killed in World War I) is trying to build up his forces to take his master's place. Was it ever mentioned what language Grevane used for his magic? If not, what do you think it would be? German after his master's native language?

I'm actually thinking that he took extra mild physical consequences. We see multiple occurances where he just keeps going after taking a beating.

There are multiple times where lines like the one in Small Favor come up: "He hammered punches into my short ribs, and he knew how to make them hurt. Unfortunately for him, I knew how to be hurt."

So, I'd say he likely took extra physical consequences. Since you can take backlash as physical consequences, he could use those extra mild consequences to either take more of a beating, which he usually did, or to use more powerful spells even with his lower discipline...

I would say that they are not subject to the laws of magic as they deal with mortal magic. While a mortal may be wielding it, the magic comes from the faerie court. If they attacked a changeling for breaking the laws of magic without just cause, the white council would run the risk of angering one or more of the courts and that is something they do NOT want to do.

Yeah, Unfortunately it is on my main NPC, so it won't be as good as if it were on a PC... but, still something I can use well.

Yeah, I think that was my problem of transitioning from D20 where the story is a complete mystery to just laying it out there for all to see. None of us have tried a FATE game before and I wanted to kinda ease them into it, haha.

As for the Theme, I had a similar thought when we were doing city creation. They insisted that it be a theme, so I think they were treating it more as a fact of life that no one is willing to do anything about. They said it fit in the following category from the book:

Some themes are more specific to a
group in the city. A college town with a
notorious fraternity of wealthy troublemakers
might have “If the Beta Alpha
Chis want it, they get it.”


Since they wanted this to be the theme, I decided not to push. I'm imagining that the White Court Family has so entrenched themselves that they pretty much control both the government and the crime world. Kinda makes them harder to "remove". In essence they are the John Marcone of New Orleans. He's not really someone even Dresden could remove easily... In the end, I'm just justifying what the players wanted. *shrug*

Do you think that would work for a theme or shoudl we still need to make it a threat and come up with a different theme?

Hello All,

I'm an experienced DM when it comes to Dark Heresy, D&D, and other D20 RPGs. However, this will be my first campaign with FATE, let alone within the Dresdenverse. I just wanted to get some (hopefully constructive) opinions on the city sheet my players and I came up with.

Here is a link to the city sheets:
http://i.imgur.com/wpzKJBk.jpg

The sheets on the left are what I can see and the sheets on the right are what the players will see. I strayed a little from the process in the book. I had the players work together to make a city (in this case New Orleans). Then, once they were done, went back and changed a few things (some names, one or two locations, etc.). Nothing too big, but made sure that some of it would come as a surprise.

Then, I did some low grade editing. I kinda of did it like top secret files, but purposefully left some of the stuff only partially covered. So, if you look closely at the "blacked out" info, some of it can actually still be read. So, it kind of gives hints at what might come. I did the changes mainly so that they wouldn't know what is coming and where to expect it, but I kept all the elements of what they wanted the same.

Let me know what you guys think of the city, in general, and for my style of "hidden" threats and locations. Also, it would be good to note that none of the players have read the books. If you have questions about what something means, let me know as I want as informed opinions as possible.

Oh and it would probably help to see what kind of group there will be:

1) A Half-Troll Changeling who is a drunken bouncer on Bourbon Street. His player is definitely going to "troll it up".

2) A Half-Pixie Changeling from Summer. He is the child of a Pixie Noble (something of an oddity). Think Spike from Buffy and you've pretty much got his character style down. He also is a child of the 60's and 70's. If there is a drug that was popular during that time, he probably tried it. I have worked out that he might get Seelie Magic down the line if he can help acrue power for his sire in Faerie. He is human size for now.

3) A Were-Jaguar. He is a young man from a hidden aztec tribe out for his rite of manhood, in which his task is to hunt and kill a full Red Court Vampire. His player is more of a bash and smash kinda guy.

4) A Champion of God. He is fine with having nothing but the starting powers. His character is a no-nonsense old testament kind of guy who is trying to convert his companions and turn them away from their heretic lineage or powers. His character and the half-pixie will likely have the most plot interaction.

5) A Red Court Infected. His character is a Forensic Detective who is obsessed with curing humanity of mortality due to family loss. His character and the Were-Jaguar will likely have the most character interaction and the Were-Jaguar might try to trick him into becoming a full Vampire so that he can kill him and claim his prize.

well i only skimmed your other topic but maybe something like "Magical Dealer of Arcane Goods"?

Maybe I'm trying to put too much in to the one aspect but, I would think the healer part would come in as well. I've editted the OP because I really didn't put too much about that in there.