Tales of Arabian Nights board game app

This is a helper tool for the board game Tales of the Arabian Nights.
No more fumbling through the Reaction Matrix in Tales of the Arabian Nights. Simply type in the number/matrix and the app handles the rest. Choose a reaction and the app provides the story number at the end. No more matrix cross-referencing!
Everything from they Reaction Matrix and the 121 Matrices in the book of tales in one easy app.

Disclaimer: Since this video was published, SU&SD has been made aware of a striking quantity of homophobic and transphobic content in this board game. The game’s tone was first established by the first edition in 1985, and today, it’s definitely showing its age. More information is available here, courtesy of Meeple Like Us.

When was the last time you had some friends over, one of you got abducted by an elephant, one captained a war fleet and another had eight babies*? It was NEVER, wasn’t it? Admit it!

Tales of the Arabian Nights can fix that. You might not know it, but there’s a gaping hole in your board game collection. A hole that begs to be filled. And you must fill it. You must fill it with this. The finest storytelling board game in existence.

Have a great weekend, everybody! Ideally, make sure it’s great by playing this.

*And was then abducted by an elephant.

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Tales of the Arabian Nights

Tales of Arabian Nights board game app

In Tales of the Arabian Nights, you are the hero or heroine in a story of adventure and wonder just like those told by Scheherazade to her spellbound sultan! You will travel the land seeking your own destiny and fortune. You will learn stories and gain wisdom to share with others. Will you be the first to fulfill your destiny? The next Tale is yours to tell! There is, of course, a winner in Tales of the Arabian Nights, but the point of the game is less to see who wins and more to enjoy the unfolding and telling of a great story!

In this new edition of the groundbreaking storytelling game, you enter the lands of the Arabian Nights alongside Sindbad, Ali Baba, and the other legendary heroes of the tales. Travel the world encountering imprisoned princesses, powerful ‘efreets, evil viziers, and such marvels as the Magnetic Mountain and the fabled Elephant’s Graveyard.

Choose your actions carefully and the skills you possess will reward you: become beloved, wealthy, mighty – even become sultan of a great land. Choose foolishly, however, and become a beggar, or be cursed with a beast’s form or become insane from terror! YOU will bring to life the stories of the inestimable Book of Tales in this vastly replayable board game with over 2002 tales that will challenge, amuse, astound and spellbind you for years to come.

This is a helper app for Tales of the Arabian Nights boardgame published by Z-MAN games. App has following functionality:

- Inputs encounter table number and selected encounter table line, and based on that prints out what the player encountered.
- From there, you can go to the matrix and select reaction, which will lead to the final matrix number. In order to do this, the entire reaction matrix is entered into the app.
- App provides option to roll the line for encounter (pluses can be entered from 0-8), and also option for rolling the destiny die.
- Matrix view can be entered without having any encounters, as there are some cards which tells you to go directly to some encounter matrix. In this case you can select also the adjective from a drop down menu.

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Classic story-driven board game Tales of the Arabian Nights will see its last third-edition print run later this month, current publisher Z-Man Games has announced.

In a lengthy farewell post on the publisher’s blog, studio head Steve Kimball and Arabian Nights designer Eric Goldberg reflected on the game’s journey from its creation in the 1980s through to the release of its expanded and revised third edition under Z-Man in 2009. The last English-language printing of the third edition was in 2015.

Tales of the Arabian Nights is notable for its open-ended storytelling, which allows players to interact with places, inhabitants and events in the world by using a series of table-like matrices. By cross-referencing their chosen action and the initial prompt, a number of different outcomes are possible - some of which lead to the characters’ unfortunate demise, or potential wealth and happiness.

Tales of Arabian Nights board game app

The game has garnered widespread acclaim for its innovative player-driven narrative gameplay, influenced by Choose Your Own Adventure and Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, although it has also received criticism in more recent years for its inclusion of more problematic elements, such as its handling of gender - notably in a Sex-Changed status card that prevents the player from winning.

Goldberg recalled that a fantasy setting inspired by the legends of King Arthur was originally considered for the game, before settling on its backdrop of 1001 Nights as the result of its potential for telling a huge variety of stories.

Kimball revealed that Goldberg sought to “reboot” Arabian Nights with another publisher last year, only for the project to “[fall] through due to creative differences late in the development process”.

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Kimball said that Z-Man’s focus on other projects had led to the publisher having to move on from Arabian Nights, adding that the studio’s work on “existing commitments to new and established product lines [meant] we both realized that our collaboration was nearing its end”.

Earlier this year, Z-Man brought its series of Euro Classics board games to an end, including the cancellation of a planned Princes of Florence remake. Kimball indicated at the time that the move was to allow the studio to focus on its "many existing obligations, like supporting our four major game brands of Pandemic, Carcassonne, Love Letter, and Citadels”.

The upcoming print run of Tales of the Arabian Nights 3E - said to be the last opportunity to pick up Z-Man’s release - will be a “limited quantity”, and only available in English. The reprint will be exclusive to Z-Man’s own online store in the US, with a small number of copies making their way to other English-speaking countries. The final printing will be released on June 11th.

Kimball described the third-edition run as “a sendoff for this edition of the game and a launchpad for the next”, hinting at the potential for a future return for the series under a new label. No details of a future edition or new publisher have been confirmed.