Idea for the next draft

[Caleb Lancaster]

Okay, I thought of a limitation to A-Train's draft that may seem weird. Only X-Men characters. Pretty much any TV show can fit within the limits of X-Men characters. And so far, the ones I've thought of pretty choice.
Breaking Bad with Hank McCoy and Nightcrawler. Gossip Girl with Jubalie and Emma Frost. Hawaii 5-0 with Cable and Bishop.
Not saying this is the way we're going, but I think it'd be a good way to make a limitation on it. 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.

[W.West]

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.

Its really just a rule to make sure I don't create a perfect tv show featuring mutants.

[JohnnyV]

Yes that's pretty much what I mean. People would be able to pick their own show and then chose comic book characters to play the characters on the show.


EDIT: I'd also add that you can't pick shows that are already superhero/comic based and just plug in the characters for the roles because that's lazy. So for example no Wonder Woman, Arrow, Smallville, Mutant X etc.

I like that stipulation actually. I think it would be even more interesting to add another restriction, like 'Sit-Com with Comic Book Characters'. But I know we typically like to keep it as open-ended as possible.

Considering I have an idea already in mind, I shift my vote from literary to this.

[Mister Ed]

EDIT: I'd also add that you can't pick shows that are already superhero/comic based and just plug in the characters for the roles because that's lazy. So for example no Wonder Woman, Arrow, Smallville, Mutant X etc.

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.

[Mister Ed]

That's kind of what I did for the Avengers Draft. Only without the half-serious part. And it was Marvel characters chosen to represent DC characters (specifically, the JLI), rather than actual DC characters.

So really not very similar at all, in retrospect.

[W.West]

Yes that's pretty much what I mean. People would be able to pick their own show and then chose comic book characters to play the characters on the show.


EDIT: I'd also add that you can't pick shows that are already superhero/comic based and just plug in the characters for the roles because that's lazy. So for example no Wonder Woman, Arrow, Smallville, Mutant X etc.

So...essentially the Star Trek draft with the option for any other show that isn't already a comic book show.

I'm not sure I could pull that off.

[Booster Beetle]

I would proably draft a half-joking half-serious Avengers starring DC characters

[Lantern A-train]

The lit draft was just basically to pick a team of literary characters into a them correct?

[Caleb Lancaster]

I like the lit draft idea, of course, and I'm warming up to A-Train's idea, because it sounds just silly enough to work.

[Lantern A-train]

Yes that's pretty much what I mean. People would be able to pick their own show and then chose comic book characters to play the characters on the show.


EDIT: I'd also add that you can't pick shows that are already superhero/comic based and just plug in the characters for the roles because that's lazy. So for example no Wonder Woman, Arrow, Smallville, Mutant X etc.

[JohnnyV]

My vote goes to a literature draft.

[Mister Ed]

I have a variation on the casting draft that I don't think we have done yet. How about we cast comic book characters for roles in live action movies and/or tv shows.

Specific shows? Like cast Seinfeld with characters from comics playing Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer?

That would certainly be unconventional. You'd get some really odd teams. (And some really normal teams where people cast comic book characters into shows that have already have a team of people with different skills working together to fight crime. CSI: Justice League.)

[Caleb Lancaster]

I say the next one we do is back to basics. Nothing special or fancy. Just pick a medium of a vague guideline and go for it.

[Lantern A-train]

I have a variation on the casting draft that I don't think we have done yet. How about we cast comic book characters for roles in live action movies and/or tv shows.

[Robinson]

Beverage draft.