Idea for the next draft

[Mister Ed]

Which is why I say we do it over something like the Hero draft. Maybe make it 200, that way there's room to work with themes and such. I'm certain you can think of something clever with a grouping of 200 popular heroes.

Well, I was under the impression that you were proposing limiting it more severely, like if there were 16 people in the draft, drafting 7 member teams, the pool would be exactly 112. I could undoubtedly come up with some kind of clever theme out of a pool of 112 heroes, but it would never survive to the end of the draft, and more likely would get hosed before the halfway mark.

[W.West]

You gonna try for Wonder Woman again?

lol No but I just thought of what I'm going to do if this rule isn't deaded. (Yes, I know that "deaded" isn't a word.)

I'm curious what idea you have that would require doing so (not that I object to ditching the rule). I'm sure it is just a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm having a hard time picturing how one would cast comic book characters as comic book characters in a show without it being lame.

Really I'm just trying to cheat and do another Cast a DC/Marvel Movie/TV draft...

[Caleb Lancaster]

That might ruin the fun for me, personally. I'm all about the theme, and if it is just "grab what you can from this limited pool" that will become almost impossible. And will make the teams people end up with less interesting, IMHO.

Unless the goal is to grab a team to accomplish a specific task, or win a battle, or something like that. If we are going to draft like sports teams draft, then I'd think the goals should be similar, in the sense of making the best team we can to pit against the other teams in some kind of competition of skill or power. Then when voting time comes, the arguments would be about whose team would win, not whose was coolest or cleverest.

Which is why I say we do it over something like the Hero draft. Maybe make it 200, that way there's room to work with themes and such. I'm certain you can think of something clever with a grouping of 200 popular heroes.

[Mister Ed]

Can we at least get that "No recasting previously made comic shows" rule abolished?

I'm curious what idea you have that would require doing so (not that I object to ditching the rule). I'm sure it is just a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm having a hard time picturing how one would cast comic book characters as comic book characters in a show without it being lame.

[JohnnyV]

Unless the goal is to grab a team to accomplish a specific task, or win a battle, or something like that. If we are going to draft like sports teams draft, then I'd think the goals should be similar, in the sense of making the best team we can to pit against the other teams in some kind of competition of skill or power. Then when voting time comes, the arguments would be about whose team would win, not whose was coolest or cleverest.

I like this stipulation as well if we go with the smaller stable to choose from. Because having it be theme based would make a smaller set of characters be too frustrating to complete. Someone might choose a character that would completely wreck my theme.

But, if we're choosing a team based on a battle or task, character restrictions wouldn't be as detrimental and might even make it more interesting.

[Fearless]

Can we at least get that "No recasting previously made comic shows" rule abolished?

You gonna try for Wonder Woman again?

[W.West]

Can we at least get that "No recasting previously made comic shows" rule abolished?

[Mister Ed]

That might ruin the fun for me, personally. I'm all about the theme, and if it is just "grab what you can from this limited pool" that will become almost impossible. And will make the teams people end up with less interesting, IMHO.

Unless the goal is to grab a team to accomplish a specific task, or win a battle, or something like that. If we are going to draft like sports teams draft, then I'd think the goals should be similar, in the sense of making the best team we can to pit against the other teams in some kind of competition of skill or power. Then when voting time comes, the arguments would be about whose team would win, not whose was coolest or cleverest.

[Michael Heide]

Any Justice League? Including Justice League Dark, Justice League 3000, Justice League Antarctica and Justice League of Air?

[Caleb Lancaster]

I say next time we do a Hero or Villain draft, before we do actual drafting, we make a list of 120-150 characters to choose from.

[W.West]

Sort of. I think he means more of a set group of people to choose from. For example I'd pick maybe 50 mutants and say that those were the only ones that could be picked by anyone.

No. What I mean is we shorten the list. We have 112 slots for characters, I say we only have 112 characters to pick from.

Oh an actual pool of talent/choices. I don't think that should be implemented in this draft, but maybe for the next Hero/Villain drafts? Like only DC heroes that have been Justice League members...

[Caleb Lancaster]

But wouldn't that be what we had BEFORE your mutants only rule?

No. What I mean is we shorten the list. We have 112 slots for characters, I say we only have 112 characters to pick from.

[Lantern A-train]

Sort of. I think he means more of a set group of people to choose from. For example I'd pick maybe 50 mutants and say that those were the only ones that could be picked by anyone.

[W.West]

I've wanted to be able to do a draft in which drafting a team is a real free-for-all, like an actual sports draft where you have a list of guys to pick from.

But wouldn't that be what we had BEFORE your mutants only rule?

[Booster Beetle]

See, I don't think this sort of rule is even necessary. I don't see the point of any rule that is essentially some version of "don't make a crappy team". If somebody wants to make a crappy team, I say let them.

Awwwwww that means I have to throw my Avengers starring Agent Liberty and Blue Beetle idea out the window