First off - I love the Dresden files game.  I've been reading it since it came out, and even ran it a few times.  These few instances were usually for family and friends though, and my FLGS has opened up a game center where people can play and run RPGs.  The problem that I've run into is thus, the more and more I've been reading, the more and more I realized that this system will be very difficult to teach newbies.  Fate is pretty simple to begin with, but the magic system of DFRPG is just ponderous.  It's heavy.  Normally I wouldn't mind that so much if it was just some esoteric part of the system that wasn't very central to the game - but let's be honest, Magic is what makes the Dresden files cool! 

When Evil Hat's big kickstarter came out, I was elated to find out that they were doing an Accelerated version of the DF rules.   However, the more and more I'm reading different versions of Fate, I can't help but imagine - how the hell is it going to work?

How is Fate Accelerated going to handle the Dresden Files magic?  Is it going to be just kinda handwaving?  Will there still be the stamina cruch?  Will they manage to keep the feel of the game while smoothing out the sheer pagecount of rules?

I had this same problem a month or so ago.   This board was really usefull in helping me out.

Look at http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,19488.msg862634.html#msg862634 to see the advice the gave me!

If it helps - the first session is almost always just character creation and city fabrication.  The real pressure won't be on you until the SECOND session.

Oh no, it's not nearly as pretty, but sometimes the whole rough and jagged aesthetic fits your character or the mood.   

Post Apocalyptic Dresden Files!

It's a lot cheaper either way

I think the best way to handle it is to use scene aspects judiciously.   

"sub-tropical summer temps" could be a scene aspect that you could not really use on most people... but on the infirmed, those wearing heavy clothing, sports mascots, and snowmen enchanted via a magical hat, it could very much so be used as a basis for compels.

For most folks in a scene, invoking "heat wave" on them might do little more than make them clammy and sticky feeling, and the GM would not really allow it.  But for your more burdened individuals, you could use the compel/invoke as per normal. 

Evocation would be simple... remember NOTHING you make with evocation will last a whole long time. You'll always have to feed shifts of power into it.  This would work the same way!  Roll just have it be like a sprint action instead, roll evocation.  Take shifts from that to add to duration, and at least one shift to ignore earthbound borders (the FLIGHT part).  While they are in the air, just roll discipline again to feed MORE shifts of power into it.   

Mind you, after fifteen or twenty exchanges, he's going to be out of mental stress, and he's going to have taken a few consequences from all that mental stress he's taking.   He'll be wanting to land sometime soon.   It IS extended flight thought... just don't count on using it to get around airlines.  Going across town is attainable... across STATE is very much so not.

I'd say as long as they don't have any refresh-reducing powers, they are still a "pure mortal."  Once they start getting some refresh-subtracting things (other than mortal stunts) then that's some sort of supernatural jazz taking wrapping it's mojo up into them, and therefore, they aren't really mortal anymore. 

yes, I know pure mortal is a purely mechanical thing, but it can bleed into the IC world if you want it.  For example, I have a character in my group who's catch is free will, so any actions committed with a deliberate intent by a mortal (or other creature not bound by their nature... pretty much just mortals and PCs).  Their toughness abilities are just a blessing from Freya to help protect him from the things outside of Midguard.

If it's just an aspect, then it's fine.  it's not changing who THEY are, just what they can do.  the moment it starts changing who they are... then they loose that two point bump. 

If the knight of the winter court ever gets excommunicated, stripped of his status and denied his powers, I'd say that he'd effectively go back to being a pure mortal. 

well, the FATE system doesn't REALLY have different types of actions like, say, DnD does (with the exception of the supplemental action, but you don't get those for free)

It would make more sense to say  if you DO use your action to get set up a maneuver based on Athletics, or Deceit, or Stealth, then you don't suffer the usual -1 to your roll for moving a zone in the same turn.

I know you can move one zone as a supplemental action, but I'm pretty sure sprinting takes up your whole turn.