A tale from Tales of the Arabian Nights
Ails of Arabia
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You know you're with your people when muttering the words 'storytelling board game' makes their eyes light up.
Tales of the Arabian Nights plunges you into a world of 'efreets and goolehs, where a fiendishly clever choose-your-own-adventure style system lets you react to its denizens as you see fit. Do you want to try to capture that genie? Or just have a nice chat? I played a game last Sunday where I made my character behave like as much of a conniving prick as I possibly could. I deserved everything that happened to me.
On my first turn, I got syphilis.
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