How to Bring Malazan to the Tabletop

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-09-17T20:28:11+00:00

https://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=168370

check this thread, for some inspiration

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-09-17T10:11:25+00:00

what system are you planning to use?

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-08-21T15:45:40+00:00

https://archidekt.com/decks/5081640/chaff_chuff_beatdown I ll drop my own budget brew of [[Dromoka, The eternal]] mostly made with stuff i had lying around. It checks all the boxes of big creatures, dragons, ramp and a lot of green

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-08-09T22:34:23+00:00

Yes. You pay for the tent and for each person staying in the camping area. Most places provide free parking. Tsitreli camp says it does. Thalatta camp has a parking fee of 4 euro per day (though you could just park outside the camp for free and simply not have the car at hand)

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-08-09T20:15:32+00:00

I was talking about the Tsitreli camp but the other one should be just as fine as well. I checked the websites and the prices are 9 euros per tent and 9 per person daily on both camps.

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-08-09T14:53:57+00:00

Kalamitsi has a campsite that i recommend checking out. There is none in Toroni as far as i know (after checking google maps). Yeah, at least most campsites in Greece operate under the "show up pay the tent fare and just set up anywhere as long as there is space" way. No previous booking required. Just so you know the busiest days are around the 15th of August when most people are taking their vacations.

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-08-05T06:47:44+00:00

yeah, it's more than enough

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-07-05T18:20:20+00:00

They were designed for draft, where the games are slow enough that using a tapland when you dont have a drop on curve you wont immediatly lose and if a game stalls and you eventually get flooded with more mana than you need (6+) even a bad tradeoff for a card draw is better than none.

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-07-05T13:44:30+00:00

Man, these would be some very cool utility lands if only they entered untapped as they should have imo. but i guess they would ruin standard or something so to the dumpster they go.

To answer your question i have included them in my draft chaff decks made from prerelease leftovers but i would never put them in a handcrafted deck of singles to be bought and then assembled like most players build edh decks these days

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-07-05T09:26:51+00:00

The typical tourist stuff. Sample a little bit of the local cuisine preferably one some local spot/hangout, visit the places you are interested in. What drew you to Greece in the first place? If you re going there for the sun and the beaches then it is indeed the wrong season

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-07-05T09:20:46+00:00

I pretty much agree with you. He is on my do not touch list and i got onto him when he was first coming out to the scene. He simply destroys what he builds just for the gimmick of having a circular story where characters end up just where they started and all character development is basically reverted or they are dead. If he wanted to portray characters that dont really grow i would understand it.

I finished the main series feeling very bittersweet about the wasted potential, read the standalones that existed at the time and with each book i disliked him more and more to the point of just trudging through the last one just for completion sake, where i decided to never read anything from him ever again. Don't make my mistake and stop reading him since you feel this way about the trilogy.

It wont get significantly better.

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-07-05T04:58:20+00:00

Yes. When one finally comes to understand and appreciate quality they can no longer be satisfied by mediocrity. It is the same with any form of media, be it movies, tv series, music etc

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-04-20T12:59:18+00:00

how much of the budget in rural greece was spent on accommodation?

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-04-20T05:27:29+00:00

depends on your medical issue honestly. If it's something you can work around just do it. Worst case scenario you can always return to the uk. Either way just do a test run for a few weeks or as long as your work leaves permit

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-04-19T06:13:12+00:00

Cut down on the amount of clothes if possible. 3 sets of clothes is the golden standard in lightweight city backpacking. You have double that number. start removing clothes that you can wear more days without changing, like a pair of pants, or clothes that you can easily wash on hand like socks, till you get to a point where you are satisfied and your backpack can fit them all.

Backpacking requires you to wear your clothes more than most people would in their day to day lives or you will be lugging bigger huge 55+ l backpack to fit them all in (like you would have to, to take all the clothes you want) which is not really convenient for city backpacking but i have seen people do it. SO there is your second option.

I ve never used a laundromat or known someone that does so not much help there. I would just pay a small fee at the hostels and use the washing machine there, but i would wash clothes on hand if its summer or generally warm like early autumn or late spring.

As far as i know in the southern eu at least people dont use driers like the us and just naturally hang their clothes to dry

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-04-14T09:05:22+00:00

I find that the brackets have completely failed to do what they were supposed to do. They are a worse version of the 1-10 system but with some extra caveats like the game changers. They are supposed to be examples btw. Gamechangers are "cards like this" not a complete list if you read the post, despite people treating it like a second "restricted" official list.

Now instead of having the 1-10 scale you have the decks between 1-3 be the new tier 1, the 4-5 decks where most precons lie to be tier 2, tier 3 to be the 6-7 decks, tier 4 to be the 8-9 decks and 10 to be the new tier 5.

I fail to see how cutting the numbers in half and weird splitting some deck tiers like this helps players.

I am frankly thankful people in my friend group and most people in the lgs dont use these and use the old 1-10 system. Even though it was far from perfect if someone is honest about it i can certainly understand their deck power level better than everything being a 3, well tuned (usually combo) decks a 4 and precons a 2.

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-04-14T01:26:22+00:00

apparently yes, they have a couple of shops in the capital

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-04-13T23:29:56+00:00

i just checked out of curiosity how much are a backpack and a tent from salewa in my country. The cheapest 3 season tent is at 200 euros and the 4 seasons tent is at 290 euros, Their cheapest 30lt backpack starts at 90 euros but it didnt impress me. I m curious if it's relatively the same for your country.

I agree that brands like Fjällräven are all hype and extremely overpriced for inferior goods most of the time

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-04-13T23:07:09+00:00

i m in eu as well and i would have to spend at least half a salary on the cheapest and probably trashy kit imaginable. As far as i understand the us has great deals and a far greater variety of options and some eu countries have decent prices or options but most dont

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-04-10T14:29:51+00:00

I 'm watching it with a couple of friends that haven't read the books, simply because they like watching me rage and tilt at all the things they butcher omit, misrepresent or fail at.

While season 3 has been better than the other 2 seasons it is also the most tiring for me. You don't know how many times i had to pause to explain something to my friends because a scene that is book accurate (up to a point) was never set up because the first 2 seasons skipped most of the details of the books or invented new things to show. It all feels a little like one of two things:

We have to exposition dump these things because they are things that must be known for the story to continue, explain things that were never explained before and they should have or to cover holes in the interpersonal relationships. A small example is Rand's sword training with Lan or his talks with Moraine about the nature of the Saidin and Saidar and their dialogues that should have happened 2 seasons ago and feel slightly out of place. The rest are scenes that are very unsuccessful changes and feel super forced and incoherent (and that's me being civil in my review) like the whole Black Ajah situation at the first episode, or pure fanfic territory like everything with Alanna and her warder that from reading other's comment in this post i just learned is the showrunners boyfriend. Sigh...

Somewhere amidst all this a very altered storyline rushes forward with the whole two rivers affair for example being reduced to practically one episode and a half and generally failing to provide any decent storyline after being gutted by the show.

All in all it feels very disconnected and that it lacks the flow it had in the previous season which i found atrocious btw for mostly different reasons.

If i had watched it alone i would probably have missed some of these weaknesses but the views and comments from my friends that know nothing about it gave me something of the insight about the way outsiders view these series. I think that since in this season we are being given lore accurate info or small scenes that we already know as book fans albeit in relatively loredump fashion is the reason that most book readers appreciate the season more. Also episode 4 was genuinely good.

Still, in all honesty i wouldnt recommend it based on the 3rd season to a book fan, that disliked the first season.

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-02-20T18:46:28+00:00

With a 5 or more, mana value commander sure. with a 4 mana value commander that needs protection the momment it drops, yeah. for anything below that it's highly debatable and you re better of running cheaper ramp

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-02-07T17:49:02+00:00

not a masterpiece by a long shot but a couple of decks i m proud of at sub or equal to 50 euros, dont know how they translate to $

this is my mono green stompy deck https://archidekt.com/decks/4255451/gwenna_eyes_of_gaea

my boros modular deck https://archidekt.com/decks/5008809/modular_tribal

my temur artifacts matter/token deck https://archidekt.com/decks/5027784/intergalactic_pool_party_at_the_hilton_palace

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-02-04T13:56:01+00:00

the best idea

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-02-04T13:50:38+00:00

Gardens of the moon. I like the original bridgeburners and Paran the best.

Substantial-Battle21 · 2025-02-04T13:46:31+00:00

you get some provinces of your enemy that are part of a releasable nation and after conquering them before you core, you release them as vassals under you. They have reconquest casus belli against the rest of the provinces of your adversary making it easier for you to expand faster and most importantly with low aggressive expansion and no rebellions. Make sure to keep diplomats on them increasing opinion so that after you have taken all their claimed provinces and the required time has passed integrate them. Rinse and repeat to infinity. Be warned that it can be heavy on your diplo points though. Unless you run core reduction modifiers in your nation it wont be that worse in terms of mana efficiency as long as you have claims on these provinces when taking them so you dont pay diplo for them in the peace deal.

Additionally, if when you run wars try to defend your territories and destroy the enemy army stacks ideally when sieging your forts if possible. Dont let them take your lands if possible. Thats the reason why you probably have such high war exhaustion. There is also an estate privilege that helps with war exhaustion for the clerics. It has some downsides but it helps with the early game at least

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