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I want to add a comment here regarding why work with Capablanca pieces
first on an 8x8 board.  A major reason is that these are the top fantasy
chess pieces, and if we can get it to work right, MAYBE we stand a chance
of them being massed produced, so we can have them go forth.  Games like
Grand Chess or even Random Capablanca Chess have a hard time being
adapted, because they are not available.  And I know that people want to
use a larger board, but how available are those?  8x8 is available
everywhere, which is why it serves as a good place to start getting
something going.  I will close here by saying that, 'Gee creating chess
variant pieces is half the fun of doing chess variants'.  Well, I would
like to say, MAYBE FOR YOU.  People would want results NOW and have it
easy for them to get to things.  If you listen to the arguments for
Seirawan chess, you see why this approach is the best one, overpowered or
no.

My suggestion is to work on a way to do Capablanca chess on an 8x8 board
AND MAKE IT WORK.  Lead with this, and then we can go forth from there. 
I
personally believe that drops and gating are essential here.  We get this
to work, then we can talk about being able to drop in weaker pieces and
mixing it up.  As of now, let's get this going first.

I would suggest working together, unless you want to have the Capablanca
Archbishop and Chancellor (or whatever you want to call them) called
'Hawk' and 'Elephant' because they are the only version of pieces you
can by, followed up with the whammy that you can only play Seirawan
chess,
because they forbid you from changing the rules for your variants.  You
can't add new pieces, remove them or change how they move.  This will
cause Grand Chess to disappear, and do I need to add that Capablanca
Random Chess will be nowhere?

I ask everyone to look at the big picture here.  On this note, I am
looking fairly soon to get what I call IAGO Chess on here for review.  I
would like people to get involved with this.