Ok,

I'm gonna stir this, because I had a potential player ask me about this.

Harry killed himself in blood rites in order to have the power to take on the ghost that was going around and causing all the bad juju with the barbed wire stuff.  So... what would happen if a PC offed himself/herself on say halloween with the intention of creating a ghost (having themselves revived by another PC) which would cross over from the never never (maybe with help from the PC) in order to kill say the badguy with magic.

Would this be a violation of the first rule?  After all, you mean to kill them, but then again you never use magic to directly or, really indirectly kill them. 

Listen to some Dragon Force, they are kinda hard rock/fantasy.  My most recent group has gotten to the point that they dread the opening chords to "Storming the Burning Fields" as it means they've just managed to step into something they probably shouldn't have.  You might want to check out their "Once in a Lifetime" or "Valley of the Damned"  for a generic theme type song.  Their music makes a good background to a game I've noticed, as it is relatively fast paced, and people seem to pick up their pace when playing with it in the background. 

Also try and find some Heather Alexander, as she has some nice fantasy themed music.  Stormbringer, King of Elfland's Daughter, and Wanderlust might make good opening tracks. 

Blackmore Night also might be worth checking out.  They've got the whole fantasy/middle ages thing going on. 

For something with a more Urban and edgy sound Tapping the Vein makes IMHO good scene music for something that is taking place in a club etc.

More mainstream, well there is always Evanesence and Loreena Mckennitt. 

It might help if you mentioned what style of music you are looking for.  I've got a rather large collection (missing just Rap/Hip Hop) that I can flip through.

The only real grey area I see in this law, is what if a Wizard, say like Harry, had been teaching the Alphas to transform instead of Tera West?  Though he would not *directly* be changing their form, he would be accessory to it.  Would he then, ala Toot Toot be persecuted by Morgan for "transforming another"? 

White Night Spoiler

House rules are looking to be the following:

1) No Knights of the Cross
2) No Wardens
3) No full fledged vampires of any court.
4) No senior council wizards

Council level wizards fine, but no power pools over 30 points, and no more than 40 points in powers.  (See the Dresden in Hero's post for Harry's beginning NPC sheet).

I'm thinking about having them run 'powered' versions of themselves since we still have 'self' character sheets from a game we were running until the GM moved out of town.  Which would mean that they won't get non-combat dice rolls if they miss things, and that they have to prove that they can do what they claim to be able to do.  IE I claimed to be able to drop 15 round magazine of 9mm from a Glock into COM of a man sized target in 14 seconds, so I had to video tape doing it at the range before next game session.  We had one guy break into his own car and hotwire it in a certain time frame.  One some outre stuff it goes to GM fiat, as some things just aren't doable in the real world without breaking a law.

Ok, here is what I think Harry would look like in the Hero System Up through at least Grave Peril (using I'm pretty sure its 3rd ed rules):

Str 12 (Cost 2)
Dex 12 (Cost 6)
Con 15 (Cost 10)
Body 12 (Cost 4)
Int 17 (Cost 7)  (Harry is smarter than your average bear, and is quick on his mental feet)
Ego 18 (Cost 16)  (Ego is primarily used in willpower rolls ie wizard stuff)
14 Pre (cost 4)  (Mainly because of his imposing height)
10 Com (Cost 0)  (How attractive he is, human baseline)

PD 3 (cost 1) (Harry isn't much tougher against physical attacks than you expect)
ED 10 (Cost 7)  (Being a Wizard gives Harry better than normal resistance to energy)
SPD 2 (Cost -2)
Rec 5 (cost 0) (Harry doesn't recover his reserves any faster than you might expect)
End 40 (cost 5) (Harry's got deep reserves)
Stun 38 (Cost 12)  (He can take a licking and keep on ticking)
Total Characteristic cost (72)

Skills Perks & Talents (roll 3d6 and subtract/add any modifiers):
Acting (everyman) Cost 0 Roll 8 or less
Climbing  (everyman) Cost 0 Roll 8 or less
Concealment  (everyman) Cost 0 Roll 8 or less
Conversation  (everyman) Cost 0 Roll 8 or less
Deduction  (everyman+skill mod) Cost 4 Roll 12 or less
Native Language (English 4 pts)
Paramedics  (everyman) Cost 0 Roll 8 or less
Persuasion  (everyman) Cost 0 Roll 8 or less
Shadowing  (everyman) Cost 0 Roll 8 or less
Stealth  (everyman) Cost 0 Roll 8 or less
Trans Familiarty (can drive Car) Cost 0
Area Knowledge (Knows Chicago) Cost 0
Prof Skill: Wizard  Cost 8 Roll 17 or less
  KS: Evocation (Used In Combat Spell activation, and not combat spells)  Cost 5 Roll 14 or less
  KS Thaumaturgy (Used In Combat Spell activation with -2 modifier, and not combat spells +2 modifier) Cost 5 Roll 14 or less
Criminology Cost 3 Roll 12 or less
Language Latin (1 pt)  Cost 1 Roll successful translation on a 7 or less
Streetwise Cost 3 Roll 8 or less
Weapon Fam Staff Cost 1
Weapon Fam Gun Cost 1
Private Investigator License Cost 2 (Perk:  Allows access to otherwise sealed knowledge)
Connected (Police)  Cost 3 Roll of 12 or less (Perk: police officer will recognize or will know police officer)
Connected (Criminal)  Cost 2 Roll of 11 or less (Perk: Criminal will know or will know criminal)
Connected (Supernatural) Cost 4 Roll of 13 or less (Perk: Supernatural entity will know or will know supernatural)
Find Weakness (Supernatural)  Cost 10 Roll 11 or less (Perk:  Successful roll halves DCV of supernatural opponent as long as combat lasts)
Follower:  Bob (75 point base character base cost 15, drawback whoever posses Bob's skull controls Bob)  Cost 10
Total Cost:  50pts

Disadvantages:
Distinctive Feature Height (unconcealable easily noticed) +15 Roll 14 or less to notice from distance
Watched:Doom of Damocles (Wardens, Powerful, Fanatic, Willing to Kill, extreme NonCombat Influence) +20
Code of Conduct:Honorable (will not break sworn word) +10 Has to roll 6 or less to break
Code of Conduct:Gentleman (will not hit woman, will come to aid of female) +10 Has to roll 6 or better to break
Code of Conduct: Rules of Wizardy (Will not use Black Magic) +10 Has to roll 6 or less to break
Reputation:Wizard (not taken seriously by society or Police; supernatural wary) +10 roll 11 or less to be recognized
Cannot Use High Tech (Random tech malfuctions in presence, very high chance on roll of 12 or less, can be used by character postively) +10 roll 11 or less for failure within 6 feet
Total Disadvantage Bonus: 105

Powers and Equipment:
Magic Multi Pool  Cost: 45 (1d6 costs 5 pool points, 10 defense costs 10 character points)
   Fuego 8d6 max 2d6 min in combat (Fire based EB)  Line, Penetrating, Obvious Accessable Fragile Focus (OAFF), Gesture, Incantation, Activation 11 or less.  End Cost 1 per 2d6  Character point cost 2
   Servitas 8d6 max 2d6 min in combat (Wind based EB)  Line, Knockback, OAFF, Gesture, Incantation, Activation 11 or less.  End Cost 1 per 2d6 Character point cost 2
   Shield (Force Wall) 1/2 ED 1/2 PD Minium 10 points, Max 40 pts Does not stop knockback, Obvious Accessible Focus, Vulnerable (transfers heat/cold/light), Hardened, End cost 2 per 10 points of combined defense Character point cost 1
  Combat Thaumaturgy  8d6 max of effect 2d6 minimum, Requires full combat phase, concentration, activation 11 or less, incantation, gestures, focus item.  (Can be used to bind)  End Cost 1 per 2d6 of effect
(end of multipool)

Force ring 3d6 Max Knockback, OIFF, Stun Only, Gesture, 1 Charge (recoverable) Character point Cost 10 End cost 0
Pentagram Causes Light, Holy Item of Inherited Silver Character Point Cost 5 End Cost 2 End for every 6' of light per combat phase (when used as a holy attack draws power from multipower pool, 2d6 damage per use)
Wizard Sight (Perception Enhancement sees Aura/soul) Character point Cost 5 End Cost 0 (Roll mental attack vs Ego and if save fails 3d6 of stun only no body)
Note:  Fuego Servitas hit ED, Force ring hits PD
Total power cost: 72

Base Character points: 90
Total Disadvantages:  105
Total Available: 195
Total Character Cost: 194
Available Character Points: 1

Well just to add to speculation in the newest book there is some magical healing going on.  We're even given some limits on what it might be possible to do.

Then you'll have to go outside of the canon to provide such a character.  That's all.  Nothing stopping you, when it comes down to it.

But even *Hank McCoy*, a wizard of the Senior Council, was only able to give Harry something to ease the pain, and *maybe* lightly nudge the healing process, when Harry got his hand fried.  It's not within the scope of human magic, at a minimum -- possibly because resculpting human flesh requires an atomic-level understanding of biology, or just that it's hard not to accidentally strip the muscle off of the bone.  Whatever the case, there's just no foundation for it.

So there's a famous poet of the same name.  *shrug*  That can be worked into the story as well.  Being rabidly set against using a name because it happens to also belong to someone famous is throwing out a lot of good names, and some good banter thrown in. 

For example my own first name is Jeb (short for Jebediah), and I always get this:

"Good to meet you, Jeff..."

"Its Je*b* with a B." 

at which point it devolves to one of the three:
"Short for Jebediah? Did you know that's a biblical name?"
"Like Jeb Bush down in Florida, the president's brother?"
"Oh, you mean like Jeb Stuart.  Now there was a general..." 

Depending on circumstances, how I feel, the phase of the moon etc, the conversation will either go well from there, or I'll purposely make a farce out of the whole thing because I simply don't like them, or because I've decided they purposely got the name wrong in the first place.

Names are important.  Its one of the reason's that the Dresden files is so good in my opinion, Harry was right in there that first book talking about his name, Jim handled Butters in much the same way.  Names define who we are in a large part, how we react to society.  A good name will help you out in places, a poor one can be a hindrance your whole life.  Having the same name as a famous person can be both.  Maybe Robert Frost the pyromancer prefers to be called Bob, or Rob, or Bert because of the onus of living under the name, maybe he's up front in your face "That poet guy is giving us a bad name" about it.  Character names are quite often neglected by authors.  They come up with a name for someone, but rarely do you ever see how that name affects the characters life. 

Personally I'm homebrewing under the Hero system.