@Sanctaphrax it says be of much use, not that it can never be done or that it will never be useful.  Using the default equipment that comes from your base Lore would be very difficult in a fight, and pulling off the sort of stuff required to raise the complexity would be even harder.

But if a wizard wants to spend a bunch of fate points invoking various aspects to raise the complexity above zero and roll at a rate of one roll per exchange I see nothing wrong with using thaumaturgy in a fight.

I don't know about the catch based damage and blood healing.  Most of his damage was using either fire or sunlight, and really, "rotten corpse" and "burnt rotten corpse" aren't different enough for an aspect.

So last game the PCs managed to inflict every last consequence on the big bad Master Black Court Vampire before it got away, including Extreme (it lost it's left arm to a blowtorch for that one).  All by the book too, had quite a few die rolls gone differently the BCV either would have been destroyed, or one of the PCs could have died.

Anyway, my question is, roughly how many people will this BCV have to completely drain to be fully healed?  By the rules only the minor consequence can be, but I think that is both lame and doesn't fit with how things work in canon.  Also, do you think the extreme consequence should be fixable with enough blood?  I can see arguments both ways.

In my game there was a PC that started out as a focused practitioner.  She later upgraded to sorcerer, and now is a wizard (although according to the White Council she hasn't finished her apprentaceship yet).

Sorry, I meant too short for regular weapons.

My game originally had 5 players (besides me).  I later expanded it to 7 without any issue.

Wow.

I actually am at a loss at how to reflect what kind of body guard you could hire with that.

I wouldn't make them jump through any mechanical hurdles though.  It sounds like they already did enough of that already.  The question is just is what kind of person you would hire.  That would be way more than Kincaid IMHO.  Like, maybe Odin personally follows you around as your body guard or something.

How much damage would a head on colision do, with both cars moving fast?  Would the drive roll be an all or nothing thing, or would it lower the damage by some amount?

I'm thinking of a situation where a BCV will have a Renfield jump the yellow line while the PCs are driving to make an ambush easier.