Not by raw unless you include maintenance as a downside. And even if we do maintenance can just be something Molly's followers handle.
By RAW Dresden spends a lot of unspecified time doing maintenance on his gear.
Word of Jim is 20 hours a week; I quote:
2013 Wyrdcon Q&A
How do you decide what is going to become a part of Harry's permanent arsenal and what isn't
Harry spends about 20 hours a week just making sure that his stuff keeps working. For the most part he's got a part time job where he's at the wizard Gym making sure that his stuff keeps going. I've got a vague limit figured out of this is how much he can maintain at any one time. So the stuff he maintains as part of his arsenal is stuff that is going to be useful in the majority of the situations he's going to face.
He often needs to blow something up: Blasting Rod.
He often needs something to help him out with a number of minor chores: Staff.
Not getting shot by bullets is great: Shield Bracelet.
The force rings were something that were great, because you never know when you could be going to the grocery store and BAM 30 ghouls.
He can't have unlimited stuff, he's got to keep it up. If he's got a new toy, it's something I've got a purpose in mind for in the story.
OOC, we know that its simply a narrative convenience for the author to prevent Dresden building up stuff.
IC? Several possibilities present themselves. Its possible that its because
-He doesn't have the right crafter Merits yet,
-He doesn't have Craft+Occult high enough
-He isn't rolling enough successes or using high-enough materials to make permanent gear
It certainly doesn't appear to be as much of a problem for other wizards and sorcerers in-universe.
I dont see Luccio doing maintenance on every Warden sword she makes, or Ancient Mai having to do weekly maintenance on her wardhounds, or Victor Sells having to do maintenance on his scorpion drones, and the slime golems that have been repeatedly referenced, and so on.
So that's QM's discretion.
There are still circumstances where we will want to leave our house obviously dressed for battle or to impress in an old-school "intimidating armor" way. And I wasn't talking about going bulkier. The rules say you can get -0 armor with 2 soak dice "or 1 soak if concealed." I'm suggesting we make 2 soak armor that can't be concealed, and use that sometimes instead of the 1 soak concealable armor we usually wear. Essentially the supernatural world's version of a "dress to impress" outfit with -0 Dexterity penalty, +2 soak dice, and a "superior craftsmanship" bonus to social rolls. Something you wear to the kind of diplomatic meetings where obviously wearing well-made armor and having an extra die of soak is a good thing. And don't tell me that the situation will never come up with the current supernatural political landscape as it is. Even if it sits in our closet most of the time, it's still good to have.
Can I get a citation for this please?
My understanding is that we are using a mix of ExWoD and V20 rules for armor and weapons.
I dont recall this being stated.
Dresden Files NPCs dont appear to wear visible/obvious armor to diplomatic meetings.
The closest I recall we have ever seen to that was Bianca's Ball, when Ferrovax cosplayed as a Roman centurion and Michael
may have been wearing armor because he went as himself, a Knight.
Normal diplomacy, even between sworn enemies, does not appear to involve visible armor and armaments.
Even Dresden only wears his trench coat and staff, and he has the excuse that he wears it everywhere if he can.
We are going to be spending AP on craft anyway, repaying Odin. using a second AP (from the coffee, since it can only be used to extend a given project, not for a new one) to also make armor and equipment for us and our allies at the same time makes sense.
I suspect Training has a lock on that extra AP, given that we need to get the discount on purchasing some capabilities ASAP.
The things Molly probably needs fabbed fastest
The things that would be most useful require Exalted Crafting or high-tier Enchantment.
You know if Harry's main limiting factor on magic items is how much time he has to spend on maintenance then if he made us something and we get prince of ruin attitude he wouldn't have to maintain it.
Thats not how Prince of Ruin works.
