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Message: <blockquote data-quote="synecdoche" data-source="post: 1966504" data-attributes="member: 11977">Sounds like a fun game!  I'll be checking out your story hour for sure.A couple of more or less random thoughts.  First of all, one big plot device in the western is that the guy who kills the big gun (in your case Billy the Kid) becomes the big gun, and as a result, every two-bit greenhorn with a gun who wants to make a name for himself goes after him (something to do in my readings on western with the cowboy hero being trapped in his role until death, and... wait, that's for school.  I'll spare you).  So you could put the Arcade Gang on the defensive for a bit.  Other options, regarding Bill the Kid-- depending on which version of his story you read (I am talking fictional stories here, of course), he was either a hero or a villain.  I don't know what he was in your campaign, but it doesn't matter-- make him a hero to some and a villain to others. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  A lot of the legends around him have him set up as a Robin Hood figure for Mexicans in south Texas.  Why not do something with that?  The Mexicans could be quite upset that somebody they quite liked and admired has been offed, and will want a reckoning.  Another option is to have one of Billy's lovers get mad, and hire somebody similar to Unforgiven's Will Munny-- and aging but absolutely legendary gunfighter to take out Arcade's gang.Or, since you're not afraid to incorproate the supernatural into your western game-- read the comic Jonah Hex, Two-Gun Mojo?  In the comic, an evil magician uses voodoo to resurrect Wild Bill Hickock, among others.  Why not do the same with Billy?And Wyatt.   You could go in any number of ways with him.  Again, I am not sure if you're making him out as the hero or the villian-- he's been both in popular culture-- but again, you can do things that will work no matter how you want him to be.  Have the Cowboys convince the party that Wyatt is trying to run Tombstone with an iron fist (note also that, as I remember, after the events in Tombstone Wyatt was on the run for a good long while) and is infringing on their rights to run cattle the way they've done it for years.  Old Man Clanton is none too pleased about having this new guy come into town and cramping his style, so he could convince Arcade's Gang that Wyatt is the aggressor here, and is nursing an old grudge because Morgan was killed ("It was legal!" Ike and Billy will claim).  So, the cowboys enlist Arcade and his gang to help out with Wyatt, Doc, and the others (I think Virgil Earp had left Tombstone at this point, too).  Or, you can alter history a bit, too.  Have Wyatt backed into a corner.  Doc is bed-ridden; Morgan is dead; Virgil has left town to recuperate (are you doing anything with James?).  Wyatt has nowhere to turn.  But then he hears that the gang that dealt some justice to Billy the Kid is passing through, and wants some help dealing with the Cowboys.Another idea (can you tell that I *like* Wyatt Earp movies?) is to have one of the PCs become enamoured with Josephine Marques, which Wyatt won't like much, either.  Sorry if I went on a bit, but your game sounds like it'd be right up my street. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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