[TheMunchkinKing]

For a brief period we tried to make house rules around sidekicks. We wanted sidekicks to be like mini retainers with all the slots available to them that the human player has (Armor, Foot, 2 Hands, Headgear) but when you give these items to your sidekick you can never get them back. Lose your sidekick? Then you lose all the items you gave him. Someone steals him? They get everything he was wearing. Sacrafice him to escape, you lose all that stuff too!

Because of this added power we only did this in Epic games. We also incorporated a rule that said that when you run from combat your sidekick has to run away too. In fact, your sidekick always runs away first and if he doesn't make it it's considered a sacrafice and you lose him and all his stuff but you get away.

There was really no reason we added these rules other then that we thought they could be cool. It was interesting but after a while we decided to go back to regular sidekick rules.