Thank you Bill and Dave. All of these suggestions were great and very helpful for me.
Now for something I want to run by folks and see if everything makes sense and allow folks to make suggestions.
One of the villain decks is going to represent Rook Industries as a whole: schemes, corruption, unchecked capitalism, all that fun stuff. (Plus, who doesn’t want to punch a giant corporation in the face after… modern society, really.)
Anyway, this involved filling in two groups of people: the faces of the faceless corporation, as well as their various super-powered minions.
On the super-powered side, four candidates became immediately clear: Iconoclast, Troll, Facet, and Carbine. All four are tied to Rook (at least alluded to, in Iconoclast’s case) and each has a fairly solid connect to one of the Menagerie members (Carbine is the least solid, but I love the idea of her being proto-Charade, having a similar connection to Parker, but these are expanded universe thoughts).
The corporate side (which I am tentatively calling executives so I have a keyword for cards) are slightly more difficult. But I do have some thoughts.
Annika de Groot from the Cold Equations story works and can represent the R&D side of Rook. Doesn’t have a connection directly to the team, but still very easy to slot in as a baseline.
Rossum is the opposite side of that: very direct connection to the Menagerie and can represent a bit of a wild card in Rook (since he was only really on board to not go to jail and have a cover and resources). He can represent the Robotics side of Rook.
The other big side we got into with Rook was their interest in the Wounds. We never really had a face to match up with that facet (except for Rosa, but she has other functions in this deck) but I could see someone filling that particular role. Looking at the Deck of Villainy, an alternate version of Dr. Rishima Doshi (Professor Spectre) who never became an out-of-phase ghost fits that really well, and lets me be amused that the two people interested with researching the Wounds (Ghost Girl and Doshi) are both ghosts of a sort.
So for parity with the super-powered side, I would need a fourth executive. Since we’ve already got R&D, Robotics, and Dimensional Research covered, what sounds like a good fourth pillar? Finance? Political Interests? Cybernetics? (Kind of runs close to robotics though.) Thoughts?
Finally and separate from the eight mentioned above, I think I also want to include a mole inside Rook that can feed the heroes information. SNOWMAN/Jack Frost could fit into this role fairly easily since that’s already what they were doing in Cold Equations.
Thoughts?