When Riot Quest came out in 2019, it was followed shortly by the release of Throwdown, the official event packet for Riot Quest. This event packet included all sorts of alternate ways to pay Riot Quest, many of which centered around how each player would build their Crew and their hand of Riot Gear before the game began.
As it turns out, the idea of alternate formats to play Riot Quest caught on like wildfire, with the Adventuring Party format becoming one of the most popular. This also led to the community coming up with their own fun formats, things that might fall outside the purview of what a local game store could reasonably provide but was doable by an individual at home with their own collection. Draft formats in particular generated a ton of excitement.
Over the last year, we’ve seen all sorts of variations on a drafting format from the community, and in today’s article, we want to give you the basic rules to run your own. This format is best run with a single player’s collection of models and gear—that way, there’s not confusion after the game as to whose Butcher belongs to who and no accidental theft when someone mistakenly puts a model away in their army bag.
If you’re playing a home event using the Throwdown rules, consider this as another option for the event category “Crew Selection.”
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Casual Draft: Create a pool of Hero models that all players will share. This pool cannot have any duplicates and should contain a minimum of 5 Heroes per player. The pool is treated as a shared Bench between all players. When a player spawns a Hero, that player chooses any model in the pool. Each player still retains their own Cooler, but when a model leaves their Cooler, it is returned to the pool.
In contrast to the shared pool of Heroes used throughout the game, players will need to draft their individual hands of gear cards before the game begins. Create a pool of gear cards with no duplicates and exactly 5 Riot Gear cards per player. Before the game begins, each player should roll off to determine who begins drafting. The player who wins chooses one Riot Gear from the pool to add to their hand, followed by the next player in clockwise order, and continuing in this manner until each player has drafted a hand of 5 cards.
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Next time you’re playing at home with some friends or feel like bringing your larger collection to the local game store, give this draft format a try! If previous experience tells us anything, you’ll have a blast. And be on the lookout for more draft formats coming via articles soon. The Casual Draft is a good way to get started, but there are loads more ways to try out!
