•Gimli, Dwarf of Erebor (V)
Companion • Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Signet: Gandalf
Damage +1.
While you can spot Gandalf, each support area condition is a tale.
Fellowship: Exert Gimli twice to play a support area condition from your discard pile.
This goes for the first and third entry on this list, but I believe that playing cards from the discard pile is more in the
theme than the draw deck. I can't think of a
"play from draw deck" card; most of them are the "discard three and take one," etc., which is more with the idea of Dwarves being diggers.
I think that the change to "Support Area" condition makes sense in this case.
•Gimli, Dwarf of Erebor (V)
Companion • Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Signet: Aragorn
Damage +1.
Skirmish: Discard a tale from play or from hand to make a companion of that tale's culture strength +1 and damage +1.
This is the one that I like the least of the three; I just think the wording is awkward and adding a damage bonus to a few cultures who do not intrinsically have them--[Shire], specifically--could be problematic.
I was never particularly fond of companions that had built-in strength pump skirmish actions as abilities without having an exert to balance that out.
Gimli, Son of Gloin,
Gimli, Unbidden Guest, and
Legolas, Elven Comrade are examples of of cards where they got it right--a bit of risk/reward there. At the very least, I would think that this Gimli would need a limit of 1 or 2 which I know people won't like.
•Gimli, Dwarf of Erebor (V)
Companion • Dwarf
Strength: 6
Vitality: 3
Signet: Aragorn
Damage +1.
At the start of the regroup phase, you may exert Gimli to play a tale from your discard pile.
Again, I think the "playing from regroup" is the best call as I explained earlier. Draw deck tutoring for specific cards should be limited to what it is now--A Wizard Is
Never Late,
Simbelmyne, and
The Council of Elrond,
Theoden, Tall and Proud (specifically, his death) among a few others; these cards represent some of the most powerful themes and histories in Middle Earth and they are the sort of things that
would become tales. Sure, Gimli himself became a tale--he basically started the
-[Elven] friendship thing, but unlike
Theoden, Tall and Proud, which really tells about the epic tale of a king's death, Gimli doesn't have a big historical showing of chilling in the regroup phase (or Fellowship phase or whatever people would end up preferring).
Bilbo, Bearer of Things Burgled and
Gimli, Dwarf of Erebor (V) don't really fall into the same jurisdiction as Bilbo can only play the cards from hand. In fact, if one was trying, he or she could probably find a great strategy for the two cards to potentially be played together. Maybe Gimli to grab a tale,
Red Book of Westmarch to draw one (which might be a tale) that Bilbo could play? Worst case scenario, you could lose and gain initiative a few times and manipulate
A Light In His Mind, right?*
-wtk
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* P.S., I really don't have a problem with that as it is way harder to pull off than a
The Shire Countryside,
A Light In His Mind combination in the Fellowship phase or even the skirmish phase and would require careful planning.