When 5 sux is legendary, 10+ sux really need to be called something e
Compiled version also could be found on that ExWoD discord I linked before.
Yeah.
Id probably just default to using the Sorcerous Working homebrew you posted a while back.
And Harry, Mouse, Molly, and Lydia working together is drastically more than Harry working alone. Wards specifically designed to take into account Mouse being there and probably in command of said wards (like the general being in command of a fort) would work better than wards Harry likely has now (I don't remember him redesigning his wards around Mouse's presence).
Mechanically, assuming best possible conditions, Harry has at most 20 dice to throw at the problem of warding his house, even with Bob's help. Combined with all of us and with prep? Yeah, we can improve his protections, and by a significant margin as well.
There's no "good enough" when it comes to a protection of a magical commander in an active war. We don't need to spend significant resources on improving the wards, even. Just, more power, more successes, more high level people participating.
1) The question has never been whether Harry + Lydia + Molly can produce better results than any of them working alone.
Hell, throw Bob in there as well; he's usually an element of Dresden's ritualcasting.
The question is whether its a worthwhile expenditure of our resources such as time.
Harry has significantly upgraded wards that outclass essentially everything short of Demonreach in this part of the United States.
He had Bob as an adviser when doing so. He has Mouse as steward of his threshold on top of that.
He has the Za Guard.
The detection range of his old shields extends at least a city block.
Something tries to crack his shields while he's away during Blood Rites and fails. Warden regional commander Ramirez remarks on how fuckscary his wards are.
There is no reasonable argument I can see for redoing the entire thing just because. The juice is not worth the squeeze.
Remember, CAN is not SHOULD.
Wizards in particular are cognizant of the difference.
For example, if Dresden had ever wanted a spirit running his wards, he's had Bob since the beginning of the series.
But he's kept Bob as an advisor, lab assistant and researcher, which is very different from how Butters used him.
Or Kemmler.
2)Mouse is not a practitioner, he's a Temple Dog.
He draws power from thresholds, and somehow from living with a wizard.
He does not lend power to building wards. Nor does he run them.
3)Harry rebuild his shields offscreen.
He rebuilt them after Storm Front, when a summoned demon battered down his wards when he was still a noob.
He had them upgraded by Death Masks, when the Archive visits him and when Cassius tries to kill him with an entropy curse.
He rebuilt and upgraded them again after Dead Beat, when Grevane zergswarms his wards with multiple waves of zombies.
He received Mouse in Blood Rites, 2 years ago. Dead Beat was last year.
Its been less than a year since he rebuilt and upgraded his shields.
Comes with the thematics.
Arawns old hunts happened with horse and hound across the sky, so that's still an option in the charmset.
And Lya is good with all animals her charms cover.
Depends on which thematics we lean into, because her father was trying to expand outside of "Celtic god of death" to just plain "god of death". Opens a lot more themes for Lydia to plunder.
