Joking with a friend I said that the Law Dogs should get a dog sidekick named “Scruff McGruff” with the deputy keyword. We then realized that circus animals have yet to make an appearance. A quick thought about it there could easily be a Lion (And Lion Tamer, maybe in the same set?), dancing bear abomination (Have it breathe fire and be called Smokey?), elephants, etc.
At that point I was thinking an entire expansion where each faction got an animal or two would be neat. Maybe a giant riding bull for MCC, wild dogs for Sloane, etc.
I’m wondering if anyone else thinks this is interesting (Or have good ideas for other animals, either dudes or goods)?
Also, I’m honestly surprised we haven’t seen more generic abominations yet like we had in Classic. Wall Crawlers, Maze Dragons, Mojave Rattlers, all that jazz.
While killing time at work this afternoon I got to thinking about what stats I’d give to the characters and iconic gear from Deadlands games I’ve run/played in if they were Doomtown cards. One of them would be ‘Nitro the Wonder Horse’. This was a character’s horse, and when he hit Legendary rank the first edge he chose was ‘Behold a Pale Horse’ which made the horse a wild card sidekick. As the campaign ran weekly for four years, this horse became quite powerful (eventually it was killed by Stone, though the rest of the party escaped).
While I don’t think there should be anything on that level of power (at least not yet - there’s no story reason for it) I think a couple more sidekicks and animals would be a cool thing to have. The Fourth Ring seems like a perfect place for Lions, Tigers, Elephants etc. I can even see a ‘Zoo’ or ‘Menagerie’ home card that would support them. I don’t think a riding bull would work for Morgan, but they already have some horse support so some more cards expanding on that would be nice.
Yeah, there was a famous card called “It was a mountain lion.” to label an attack on one of the townsfolk. However, it was really a werewolf, Humphrey Walters, the town’s founder, if I’m not mistaken.
