Back to board games with this episode, where I do double-coverage by talking about both another paragraph-based game and another Eric Goldberg game. The game is Tales of the Arabian Nights, originally published by West End Games in 1985 and republished and revised by Edition Erlkonig in 1999. In this one, you and the other players take on roles from the Tales of Scheherazade and have adventures around Baghdad and the surrounding barbarian lands, only to return home with great stories, to meet your destiny, or even to become Sultan.

Show Notes:

• Sorry about the delay, more sick
• Website updates
• Appearance on Escape Pod
• Listen to The Geeklabel Podcast!
• History of Tales of the Arabian Nights
• Description of Standard game
• Hey, look, it’s Reiner Knizia!
• Description of Storytelling game
• Description of Adventure game
• Description of Solitaire game
• Wrap-up on Tales of the Arabian Nights
• Listen to Random Signal!
• Fool’s Errand and leftover Sherlock Holmes feedback
• Closing

Links:

• BGG entry
• A nice review at Spotlight on Games
• Means of gender transformation in the first edition
• Info on the second edition from Kevin J. Maroney

Final thoughts:

I’ve switched to using Garageband to do my sound recording and editing simply because Audacity isn’t terribly stable on the Mac. I think it sounds pretty good, but let me know if you notice any quirks — I’m still getting used to it.

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