How do you pick. . .

[Phantaskippy]

Just wanting to know if anyone has come up with some cool ways to pick Heroes and scenario's and board pieces.

I've been working on a way to balance player choice with random draws to both force players to play different heroes, and yet still let them have a shot at some of their favorites. The best one I've done so far goes as follows:

1. draw four random heroes, set aside in the "hero pool"
2. The Zombie player and Human players then each ban 2 hero's from the remaining hero cards.
3. Now the humans and zombies each pick two heroes to go into the Hero Pool, bringing it up to 8 cards.
4. Draw 4 of the 8 and trade between players if wanted.

The other 4 then form the "first in" of any replacement heroes.

Scenario is picked first, then the heroes, and lastly a similar draft for board pieces.

Two early results I have enjoyed is second and third time players discussing what heroes to pick to balance the team, and when an unbalanced team is drawn how they have adapted to make it work.