Critique this variant: Manifest Chesstiny

Also, @Martin0, I very much like your "spawn 1, move 1" scheme. That seems definitively better.

Ok, one last comment then I should really leave it alone.

Sorry, I am not trying to be negative but I worked on a game that had drops for years and it turned out not to be viable for lots of different reasons.

Pawn Breaks

You need to be a strong player to fully understand all the implications of this, it is a fundamental part of chess at its very core. I will only give one example, please do not ask me to elaborate or give any further examples.

White spawns 2 Pawns on the E File

Black spawns 2 Pawns on the D File

Later on mass Pawn exchanges occur on the square D5

So now you have 4 open files instead of the usual 2 that would occur in chess after a Pawn trade.

That is just one example, there are many other reasons, I do not want to rake over past history and waste time man.

Starting with all the Pawns on the usual spots at the start of the game.

All been done before, looked at all that years ago, you will find it on google if you dig deep enough, please do not ask me, I am not interested in digging around trying to find stuff that does not work in practice. 

"So now you have 4 open files instead of the usual 2 that would occur in chess after a Pawn trade."

I see why it would make for a different game, but I don't see why it would make for a bad or broken one.  Especially because the way pieces are protected in the presence of unspawned pieces is different. 

(no need to reply, just posting this comment in case someone else wishes to explain it to me). 

I don't see why it wouldn't work. If pawns are a problem, just restrict them to only appearing on the second rank. It could be more interesting if you actually came up with an original chess game to go with it. Design the pieces and board specifically to work with the blank setup.