Can pawns still promote to Queen?
New Variant

I think the typical first move, then, would likely be to get those d-pawns promoted to Queen; or, it will happen within the first 3 moves. =D =P

Yep, the main point here is to do promotions but I feel like white has an advantage with this setup
I do say, if, both promotional Queens were to be recaptured, the end-situation would be that Black's King would be left somewhat exposed, giving Black a slight disadvantage.
Of course, don't forget: it's rather easy to get more than 1 Queen per player! (The Knight is a leaper, after all. haha)
This is my new chess variant. It’s called Half&Half Chess.
Setup: