I suppose I've been playing with far too many players who would completely take advantage of that.  Since most opponents in combat are non-human they can intend to kill, take advantage of the bonus, but not 'really' break the Law another time.  Then it's a mad scramble to engineer situations to prevent that.  Our table is currently pretty reasonable but I suppose I've learned a few knee-jerk habits.

I'm not sure what the problem here is, honestly. Sure, they'll use the bonus and get a +1 to hit nonhuman foes pretty regularly...but they spent a Refresh, getting an actual bonus out of it seems totally legit to me.

If it works out in play, I will take it on.  I just don't want to reward bad behavior

This version has the nice bonus of making people who've taken Lawbreaker significantly more inclined to murdering their enemies of all sorts, since they're better at it. That's pretty accurate to Harry Dresden's characterization, and seems very appropriate to me thematically. In many ways, they're being less rewarded and more incentivized to continue with the murder.

I apply Lawbreaker to two things it does not officially apply to:

#1: Things that should break the law, but don't due to a technicality (ie: killing nonhuman foes, reading someone's mind consensually, raising animal zombies, etc.) receive the same bonus as actually breaking the Law. This is slightly less broad than allowing Lawbreaker (First) on all violent magic (since it only allows it on killing specifically), but I've found it perfectly reasonable.

#2: Predicting or analyzing the behavior of others with the same Lawbreaker stunt (or other appropriate people at GM discretion). Molly demonstrated this in Turn Coat, and it's potentially a very useful little bonus.

These seem like a good way to handle it to me, and useful without being overpowered. And, frankly, I'm not sure 'everyone wanting it' on a mechanical level is a bad thing. There should be some temptation to falling to the dark side, after all...

Righteousness and Guide My Hand and/or Sponsored Magic (plus Marked By Power for being an Emissary) seem to cover most of what this particular Mantle gives in the post above.

More general conversion guidelines don't really exist. You just need to look at what it does and find the nearest equivalents.

I'm glad you liked them Sanctaphrax. There are definitely more to come (as well as an adjustment for Harry sometime soonish).

I don't know if we've seen enough of Molly as Winter Lady to stat her up. I mean, I can obviously just add a bunch of powers (and as few skills) on top of the version of Molly from Ghost Story...but I'm not even sure what powers, honestly (is she full Winter Lady level physically? I'm actually not sure).

As for Sir Stu's 'memory bullets' if I recall correctly that's just how he shoots his gun at all, and indeed how most Ghosts attack things (it's how Harry cast spells as a Ghost). It seems more of a world rule regarding ghosts (ie: how all their attacks are explained) than a power per se. If I'm not recalling that correctly it's because it's been years since I read Ghost Story. I really need to re-read the whole series one of these days.

And it's good to be back.

Aspects:
High Concept: Leader Among Servitors Of The Fomor
Trouble: Unquestioning Loyalty
Other:
That Innsmouth Look
Built For Violence
Not That Human Anymore

Skills:

Superb: Fists
Great: Conviction, Guns, Intimidation,
Good: Alertness, Endurance, Presence,
Fair: Athletics, Lore, Might,
Average: Burglary, Empathy, Stealth,

Stunts:

Armed Arts (Weird Fomor Weapons) (Fists)
Footwork (Fists)

Powers:

Aquatic [-1]
Strange Sense: Sonar [-1]
Inhuman Strength [-2]

-4 to -6 additional Refresh in Creature Features, Recovery, Toughness, Speed, and Strength powers

Total: -10 to -12 Refresh

Stress:

Mental: OOOO
Physical: OOOO
Social: OOOO
Armor: By worn items or powers.

Good Initiative (Epic with Inhuman Speed, if they have it), Superb defense. Superb attacks in melee at Weapon: 2 to Weapon: 5, Great attacks with guns at Weapon: 2 to Weapon: 3.

And here's a leader among Fomor goons ala 'Nobody' (who I would have as basically this with Supernatural Strength and Inhuman Speed as his additional powers). They're about the same power level as an actual Fomor and pretty dangerous. It's worth noting that they can usually use Conviction to resist all social and mental attacks PCs will attempt on them, simply because of how Conviction works and their loyalty to the Fomor.

Aspects:
High Concept: Fomor Sorcerer
Trouble: Mortals Are Beneath Me
Other:
Amphibious And Frogfaced
Shaper Of Flesh

Skills:

Superb: Lore
Great: Conviction, Discipline, Intimidation,
Good: Endurance, Presence, Weapons,
Fair: Alertness, Athletics, Fists
Average: Contacts, Deceit, Scholarship,

Powers:

Aquatic [-1]
Fomor Magic [-5]
Inhuman Strength [-2]
Inhuman Mental Toughness [-2]
Refinement [-1]
The Sight [-1]
Wizard's Constitution [-0]

Total: -12 Refresh

Focus Items:

Gnarled Staff (+3 Offensive Control with Fomor Magic)

Enchanted Items:

Enchanted Robe (6 Shift Block or Armor 3, 3/Session) (3 Item Slots)
3 Potion Slots

Stress:

Mental: OOOO(OO)
Physical: OOOO
Social: OOOO
Armor: 1 vs. mental stuff, or by spell item or effect.

Fair Initiative, Good attacks at Weapon: 4 with staff, Fair attacks at Weapon: 2 unarmed, Fair to Good defenses, 7 shift Evocation offensively (4 without staff), 6 shift defensive item.

So, first up here's a Generic Fomor. They're built at Submerged and designed to be scary for people at less than that power level (particularly those with a skill cap of Great or so), and a decent but not really optimized threat. Their weird devices are assumed to be Potions (which, conveniently, means they can hand them off to minions). You can easily power them up if you want just by adding a level of Refinement or two (they can get up to 9 shift offensive Evocation and 10 shift defensive item that way)...but that's more extreme than generic characters should usually be.

Fomor Servitors up...probably later today, and other stuff to follow. I'll add stuff to the index in the first post in a while.

I'll definitely be doing both of those when I do Skin Game updates on Harry and company. When that will be is perhaps a bit more nebulous, as I still need to re-read the book (and am inclined to re-read more than just the one...I may even re-read the whole series), but it'll happen at some point in the next while.

I should also note that, upon reflection, I'm inclined to agree with the Paranet Papers version of Harry Dresden to the extent that I now really do think Harry should have higher Presence than I've given him by even Small Favor, and higher Contacts by the point he's at now. I'll thus be adjusting my build of him (and progression breakdown) slightly at some point (quite probably along with Murphy and Thomas)...but that definitely needs to wait until I've re-read some books as well.

And I agree entirely with the 'Happy Holidays' message. Happy Holidays to everyone.

Hey, long time no see.

Yeah, it's been a while. Helping my players make characters has really been getting me back in the mood for this game specifically, though.

Any plans to make some post-Skin-Game character sheets?

It's entirely possible. I don't think most people's stats changed too much in there, but there are exceptions (Butters leaps immediately to mind), and little adjustments can matter, plus I could stat up Goodman Grey (not that he's that hard to do). I'd need to re-read the book to do them accurately, but that's no bad idea given that I'm starting a DFRPG game.

I may do some generic sheets as well, the Fomor and their minions didn't look quite right in terms of skills (and will feature heavily in my upcoming game), so I revised them, which is sort of inspiring me to do more stat revisions (or, in many cases more like clarifications) for generic foes like random Ghoul thugs or White Court Vampires and the like. I mean, this thread already has one generic stat block, I could throw in a handful more, and I don't imagine it would be more than a handful or two...