Random games or players choose?

[StayPuft]

For myself and my group, it tends to vary. Having only gotten then game in June of last year (after only playing it once a few months before with friends who owned it), I am still fairly new to the game. So, we tend to choose scenarios so we get a chance to play them all, or because maybe there is one we particularly want to try that day.

We almost always pick heroes randomly, though sometimes we may choose if maybe there is a particular hero or heroes we just felt like using that time. In particular, as I get new heroes, I plan to either specifically select some of the new ones to use in a game. Since getting Growing Hunger, I've only played once thus far, and that was as zombies.

So, what I might do when I first play as heroes is to split the two sets and then take half of however many heroes I am getting from the new set, and half from the original. Or, if we have 4 hero players and I am just therefore getting one hero, I'll select randomly from the new set. That way I get a chance to play as the new heroes.

As far as the L shaped board pieces, we pretty much ALWAYS choose randomly. Whereas playing as the different heroes, or playing the different scenarios can make things very different, we find that the L shaped pieces you pick don't make that big of a difference. I mean, granted you could wind up with better pick-up abilities, but overall it doesn't really feel very different. So, we just always pick the board pieces at random.