I was under the impression that you could only tag an aspect that you had discovered, created, or that an ally who had done so was permitting you to use their tag.

If consequences had been inflicted by enemies, how could my wizardess tag those consequences? What am I missing?

Here's the situation:

My player, a shapeshifted scion of the Amerind deity Raven, is in mortal combat with an NPC wizard. The wizard is on her last legs, realizes she is going to die (the scion was compelled that she didn't know her own strength, the power is new to her), and she casts her death curse. The wizard peers into the scions eyes, initiates a soulgaze, and then funnels herself through the link in an attempt to stuff her own soul into the scion's body. She doesn't have enough power to fully take out the scion, who can go all the way through with an extreme consequence and survive.

So, how would you model this? Right now I'm leaning toward the extreme consequence being an enforced aspect (in particular the player came up with "One Death Curse and She Thinks She's Tricia Helfer" (No. 6 from BSG if you don't get the reference)) and have the wizard partially inhabiting the scion's body, but I gather from reading other posts here in death curse threads that the wizard could make this a spell instead.

For right now I'm interested in gathering opinion, but if you have a specific numerical "how this crap works" to throw at me, go ahead.

We've had an interesting turn in my game. One player has a Pure Mortal character, and in the midst of the most recent story the person who was supposed to be her father appears, and the wizard determines that he is not as he seems. There's a tussle and the illusion is stripped away, and viola there is a faerie lord standing there in place of the Pure Mortal's father.

My intent was that he was an impostor, but the player has chosen that this person really is her character's father. As she has yet to officially accept that she is a Changeling she is still using the Pure Mortal template (and benefit).

Now that that's been done, I realize that he has given her a great many gifts over the years. If you think about it, almost half her life is a gift from him.

EDIT: I do not mean conception. Her trouble has always been revolving around Daddy's interference.  She's a cop, he's deputy chief of police. Again, he wasn't originally a fae,  so this may become overcomplicated. Please leave those questions to my group. Regardless he has always been a shameless gift giver, and hell, for the evening in question she accepted a dress and tickets to the event the party needed access to.

So here's the question, how do debts and gifts with the fae work if the recipient is (a) unaware of the gift giver's true nature, and (b) the gift giver's direct offspring.

Secondary question, how does the debt actually work?

If you just want someone/thing to fall asleep for a round or two to slit their throat, you would probably only need to do a maneuver and then tag it for effect.

I'm assuming that you'd then, what, make an attack with their Defense score at +0 and hope you get enough physical consequences?

Thanks, folks, you all have really helped.

So, when my wizard applies a "Nasty Scorch" moderate consequence to his foe, and for simplicity sake rags it for a +2 on his Dodge when the foe counterattacks, the foe does not gain a fate point?

I need to read up on Invoke for Effect...

I have a few questions about running DFRPG. I've been the GM for several sessions now, and I have a good handle on how I compel aspects on the players, how to use scene aspects, etc. However, I have a question about using fate points and my NPCs aspects.

1. How many fate points do my NPCs have?

It seems odd that every person walking the street is going to have this massive budget of fate points. Certainly Tim the Sniper on YS 328 (the first one) doesn't have seven or eight at his disposal, does he?

2. What happens to those fate points when I, as GM, use them to hinder the players?

I'll use Tim again, suppose that a rival player engages him and I've got the aspect "Bullet Sense" or something that we rule impedes the player's interaction. Can I invoke that aspect to get Tim a +2 on his defense? Does that point just diappear into the aether, or does it wind up in the affected player's pool?

I've been toying with the idea of starting each session with four fate points. I collect all the fate points that players use, but I can only use the four I have, and the ones they give me, for my NPCs. I have an unlimited pool to offer them for GM driven compels of their aspects, scene aspects, and all the rest. Of course I can't recall wehre I got that idea...