Idea for the next draft

[Michael Heide Heide Finition Find all posts View Profile Close Michael Heide]

I don't mind another Hero Draft, but I would like to call an embargo on comic book characters. After three Hero drafts, two Villain Drafts, an Avengers and a Justice League draft, yet another one would seem like overkill. We could limit ourselves to movie characters, video game characters, novel characters or a combination of those three.

[JohnnyV Pictionary Master Find all posts View Profile Close JohnnyV]

Not sure how this would work and also not sure we have enough Pokemon fans. But I was thinking a Pokemon Trainer draft. Where you draft a fictional character as a pokemon trainer, then you pick which Pokemon will be in their line-up. Or we could expand it into an Elite Four vs. Elite Four type deal.

So for instance, someone might draft Casper and he would have all Ghost Type Pokemon. Then they could have face off battles, and depending on the various types, it would determine who wins. Sort of like how the D&D draft was all about which team would be best suited for the scenarios.

[Booster Beetle Will break before he bends Find all posts View Profile Close Booster Beetle]

I don't mind another Hero Draft, but I would like to call an embargo on comic book characters. After three Hero drafts, two Villain Drafts, an Avengers and a Justice League draft, yet another one would seem like overkill. We could limit ourselves to movie characters, video game characters, novel characters or a combination of those three.

I'm down for this.

Not sure how this would work and also not sure we have enough Pokemon fans. But I was thinking a Pokemon Trainer draft. Where you draft a fictional character as a pokemon trainer, then you pick which Pokemon will be in their line-up. Or we could expand it into an Elite Four vs. Elite Four type deal.

So for instance, someone might draft Casper and he would have all Ghost Type Pokemon. Then they could have face off battles, and depending on the various types, it would determine who wins. Sort of like how the D&D draft was all about which team would be best suited for the scenarios.

I might be down for this.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

What we really need to do is somehow figure out what kind of draft would actually attract people to vote. I mean, yeah, most of the fun of these, IMHO, is just making the teams, but still, when you have matchups with a TOTAL of 4 people voting...that's kind of disappointing.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

I don't mind another Hero Draft, but I would like to call an embargo on comic book characters. After three Hero drafts, two Villain Drafts, an Avengers and a Justice League draft, yet another one would seem like overkill. We could limit ourselves to movie characters, video game characters, novel characters or a combination of those three.

That's be fine with me. Might have to be specific about what constituted a "comic book character", since there is SOME overlap. Even if you only excluded characters that appeared in a monthly book, that would still put characters from Star Wars, Star Trek, Sonic the Hedgehog, etc. in questionable territory.

I guess you could exclude any character that ORIGINATED in a comic.

[Michael Heide Heide Finition Find all posts View Profile Close Michael Heide]

Sounds like a useful definition.

[W.West Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close W.West]

I'll start announcements for each round for all future drafts. That might bring in some extra votes from members who don't usually venture into this section.

[Deadpool Fight like a man: with your words, not your fists. Find all posts View Profile Close Deadpool]

I don't mind another Hero Draft, but I would like to call an embargo on comic book characters. After three Hero drafts, two Villain Drafts, an Avengers and a Justice League draft, yet another one would seem like overkill. We could limit ourselves to movie characters, video game characters, novel characters or a combination of those three.

No, I want to go back to basics, I'm fed up with movie, book and game characters. Everyone here likes superheroes but I for example don't read books or play games and others may not watch films. I've been left out of most of the drafts lately, I'd like a good old superhero draft or maybe casting a Marvel DC TV show or something.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

Have we ever had a Sidekick Draft? Or would that be as lame as sidekicks often are?

[Booster Beetle Will break before he bends Find all posts View Profile Close Booster Beetle]

Sidekicks aren't lame!

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

Sidekicks aren't lame!

Not all of them, no. And in fact, thinking on it, I definitely can come up with enough awesome sidekicks to fill out several rosters (though theme may escape me), so yeah, that seems like a viable idea after all.

And it would allow somebody like Deadpool to go ahead and draft all comic book characters, while still leaving the option open to others, if they wished, to draft sidekicks from other media.

To my mind, you wouldn't even have to decide on some rigorous definition for "sidekick". If you think they are a sidekick, go ahead and draft them. If others don't agree with that designation that just means you may lose some votes. Might want to decide if we should limit it to fictional characters, though. Might be amusing to have a team with the likes of Art Garfunkel and Ed McMahon, but maybe we don't want to go there...

[Deadpool Fight like a man: with your words, not your fists. Find all posts View Profile Close Deadpool]

Well I think sidekicks are lame, but I do like the idea of a sidekick draft. Only problem is there's only so many sidekicks out there, it'll be hard doing a draft with sidekicks in. Maybe if we drafted small teams for that draft, maybe 3-4 members in?

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

I dunno. I've already got ideas for two full seven-member rosters. Though I admit that several of my picks would be likely to be snagged by somebody else...

[W.West Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close W.West]

So...is this sidekick thing excluding comic characters?

[Booster Beetle Will break before he bends Find all posts View Profile Close Booster Beetle]

I'd rather do Heroes excluding comic characters