The Dresden Files RPG is a FATE 3.0 based system set in Jim Butcher's modern-magic and hardboiled-detective world.
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I'm having a problem creating a sleeping potion
I have a character who is an alchemist. His magical ability is nil other than related to the creation of potions. So far, so good.
On YS280, the rules state:
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Acquiring Stunts Multiple Times
In Dresden Files there are stunts that mention that you can take them multiple times, e.g. "High Quality Workspace". For stunts that don't state that, can they be taken multiple times?
In particular, ...
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How much does the Sponsor help someone using Sponsored Magic in Dresden?
So, the party is in a fight with one of the Knights of the Faerie Courts (Winter, in this case) and a couple of wildfae mercenaries. During the fight, the Knight
started casting some unseelie ...
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Is hunger stress tracked like other stress tracks? [duplicate]
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What happens when a character's feeding stress track is maxed out?
I've looked at this question, and it assumes that the Hunger Stress track is tracked like the ...
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How would healing magic work in Dresden Files?
So, I have a player in a Dresden Files game I'm setting up who loves playing healing and support characters. Good aligned clerics in D&D, medicine excellencies in Exalted, you get the picture. ...
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What are some good skills and stunts for a mortal lawyer in Dresden Files?
I'm about to play in my first game of Dresden Files. I'm new to the system, and it's a lot different from other RPG rule's I've used. I'm having a bit of trouble grokking the game and figuring out ...
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Are Changelings With Sponsored Magic subject to the Laws of Magic?
In Dresden files, say you have a Changeling with Seelie Magic. The Changeling has a positive refresh, and thus has free will.
If the changeling uses Seelie Magic to kill another mortal, have they ...
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How long does True Shapeshifting take in Dresden Files?
There are a bunch of powers labeled "Shapeshifting" in dresden files, and in general they are pretty easy to understand and use. It even mentions that, unless otherwise mentioned, shapeshifting is a ...
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Pitfalls and Gotchas of running Dresden Files RPG with round-robin GMs
I really like how in Diaspora, character and cluster creation explicitly allows for everyone (GM included) to have a character tied into the other PCs and the setting, so that anyone can take up the ...
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Skill Point vs. Refresh Progression/Ratio in Dresden Files RPG?
We started our characters at 6 refresh and 20 skill points. The suggested progression is 1 skill point at the end of every scenario (a significant milestone) and 1 refresh + 1 skill point "when a few ...
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How do you determine the size of zones?
Determining the size of a zone still eludes me. How do you determine the number and size of zones when you are in a combat situation in Dresden Files?
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Enchanted objects in Dresden Files
Can a magic user make a weapon for anyone to use? Specifically, a weapon that shrinks down to a pendant so that the non-magic person can carry it with them and call upon it at will.
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In a Neverwhere style game how do I keep players connected to the surface world?
In a Neverwhere style setting, how do I keep the players interested in staying connected to the surface world? How can I make their connections to the mundane world matter to the players and ...
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Are there any examples of modeling “Competence Porn” in FATE?
I was reading Leverage, and listening to a podcast on it, and came up with the idea of modeling this in FATE, or perhaps even in the non-critical parts (non-magical and non-combat) of my Dresden Files ...
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What does Mythic Speed do?
I don't have the book in front of me at the moment, but a part of the power Mythic Speed states something along the lines of "Opponents don't get to make checks against you." What does this mean? Do ...
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How does attacking someone work?
OK, I keep going around in circles. In Dresden Files RPG, how do you work out punching someone vs using a knife/sword/weapon vs using a gun?
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Do consequences grant you Fate points when compelled by opponents?
I've run a quick search though the site and I didn't seem to find this topic covered, so I'm asking:
In Dresden Files RPG when an opponent compels one of your consequences against you (spending a ...
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Dealing with a problem player not playing to their character aspects
A player in my Dresden Files game joined the group with a kick-in-the-door, "shoot-first-ask-questions-later"-style cop. The character had some fairly "meh" & a couple of potentially OK aspects. ...
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Transplanting Fortitude Trappings to Other Skills
Presence, Conviction, and Endurance all have a Fortitude trapping that indicates how many stress boxes the character has on the appropriate track, i.e. Conviction has Mental Fortitude that affects the ...
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How can I add underworld intrigue to my Dresden Files game?
In D&D/Pathfinder/RIFTS/Shadowrun-type games I've played in the past, corrupt nobles/merchants, thieves' guilds, megacorps, ancient evils, and various religions with a flakey axe to grind were all ...
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How do you handle the use of unrelated skills in the Dresden Files?
Back into the breach with our weekly Dresden Files game, and because of the lapse in time between sessions/people missing as much as anything else, I had some unique situations occur.
One of the ones ...
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“Sharing” enchanted items in Dresden Files RPG
One of my players brought up the example of the Warden's Sword as an enchanted item. For those not so familiar with the source books, these are powerful enchanted swords made by Captain Luccio, the ...
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Can concessions inflict a worse effect on the conceding character than the attacker intended?
When playing the Dresden Files, my Wizard (and other magic practitioners) tend to overpower their spells, not taking into account the foes that they are facing, i.e. 8 shifts of power vs a plain ...
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How do I get my dresden files players involved in city creation?
I've tried to involve my players in city creation a few times through the course of the game, usually whenever they are about to finish up a story arc, but I usually all I get are just get a few ...
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How does a skill modify another skill?
In a couple of instances we’ve seen in the rules that state that you can use a skill to modify another skill. I think the main one that we’ve seen so far is inhuman strength. It says something about ...
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How would a character jumping off a building and landing work?
In our last session, a character decided that he wanted to run and jump off a 3-story building, land and use might to prevent damage, and then continue running. I’m not entirely convinced it really ...
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What happens when an undead character is “Taken Out”
I tried finding this in the books, but I couldn't figure anything out. If you have an undead character, what happens when their physical stress track is filled and they don't take a consequence? Are ...
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How does using The Sight work?
In The Dresden Files novels, The Sight is something that's taken seriously and not done frivolously because (1) you can't tell what you might see and what it might do to you, and (2) you keep what you ...
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Are faeries better than wizards?
I have a changeling goblin in the group, and for one of his abilities, he chose Glamours YS166. It seems like with the phrase
…use your Discipline or Deceit to oppose efforts to discover the ...
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How does social stress work?
I've read through the DFRPG book, but I'm still now quite sure how, or when, you should use the social stress track. When should a player take social stress, and what do you roll for the attack and ...
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Are innocuous actions valid attacks in social combat in The Dresden Files?
I've been attempting unsuccessfully, or at the very least unsatisfactorily, to integrate social conflict into my Dresden Files campaign. It came to a head last night, when one of my players initiated ...
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What kind of goals are valid in Social Combat in the Dresden Files?
I've been attempting unsuccessfully, or at the very least unsatisfactorily, to integrate social conflict into my Dresden Files campaign. It came to a head last night, when one of my players initiated ...
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Asynchronous Character Creation?
So in the Dresden Files RPG, character creation is meant to happen collaboratively in a unified manner. However, in our party, there are frequently times where one player or another cannot make it on ...
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What is the reasonable limit to a Declaration?
So in the Dresden Files RPG, one can spend a fate point, invoke an aspect, and make a declaration. I'm having trouble coming up with a reasonable set of guidelines as to the scale and scope of ...
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How does Grapple interact with Attacks?
I grapple a guy and am able to hold him down. The rule in the book says a grappled enemy can't do anything unless he beats the grapple. Does this mean that if members of my party attack him he doesn't ...
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Need for a new template for Dresden Files RPG
One of my players has raised the question
"Will there ever be a need for a new template in the dresden files rpg?"
So far as I could tell there isn't anything that couldn't be expressed
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Must compels be negative in FATE?
Are GM Compels meant to be necessarily negative? And are they to have an immediate effect, or get the PCs into a situation?
Examining other accounts of compels, it seems that most of the examples ...
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Margin of Success on skill checks in The Dresden Files
Another week, another episode of our Dresden Files game. In this particular situation, the PCs were in a completely alien setting, and trying to get information.
They were in the mind of a hedge ...
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Is a GM meant to compel when the player has no Fate Points Remaining?
So we tried out the Dresden Files RPG earlier. Overall, we had a great time. Some issues came up, though. Specifically, when you compel an aspect, the player has the choice to either accept the ...
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Is there a limit to how many Fate Points can be spent in a single round?
Suppose we're playing the Dresden Files RPG, and one of the characters decides to go for broke. He wants to use fate points on 4 seperate aspects that are relevant, for a whopping +8 to the result. ...
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Noncombat Characters in Combat?
So we played Dresden Files RPG, using a set of premade characters. One of these characters was an investigative paranormal detective type build, which worked extremely well (maybe too well?) in the ...
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Breaking the law
In DFRPG, you have the 7 laws of magic, which if you break you automatically have to add it as a power. Lets say we have a focused sourcerer who's used 6 of their 7 refresh, and they break one of the ...
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Does backlash reduce the targeting number when casting a spell?
An interesting question came up last night in my Dresden Files campaign. The practitioner was conducting (casting) electricity from himself to a hapless white court vampire to fry the poor chap. He ...
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How valid is lying to players about the rolls they are making in The Dresden Files?
In last weeks Dresden Files game, the players followed the bad guy using a tracking spell, and found him in the projects at an apartment that they knew little about. Seeing his car, they decided to ...
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Discern source of magic
My wizard tells me that she remembers reading something about being able to use thaumaturgy to determine the source of magic, but neither of us can find it in the book. How does this work, if it's ...
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Are Red Court Vampires/Infected affected by the saliva of other Red Court Vampires/Infected?
In The Dresden Files RPG, Red Court Vampires(RCV)/Infected have the supernatural power Addictive Saliva (YW162). The power itself does not say anything about it conferring immunity to the saliva of ...
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How long does Thaumaturgy take?
I get the point that thaumaturgy takes time as opposed to the quick and dirty evocation arts, but how much time hasn't really been spelled out, unless I'm missing it. I've been coming up with my own ...
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Where can I find a foldable character sheet for The Dresden Files
I saw a question on Area 51 for the proposed questions for this site about "What's the point of the foldable character sheet that is available for Diaspora?", and it was flagged as a good question, ...
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Picking a lock with wind magic
In the book, one of the examples given for wind magic is that you can pick a lock with it. Now my question is, should using wind magic to pick a lock just be a minor use of magic and not require a ...
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Sleep spell in DFRPG
Has anyone here put together a "Sleep" spell in the Dresden Files RPG yet? One of my PC wizards (we're playing a "Submerged", or high-powered game) has a sleep spell as a Rote, and I wanted to see if ...
