A Friday Night's Tale of the Arabian Nights
Spent last night gaming with the Friday night group, all five players showing up to play, and had a wonderful night of it.
Since they had enjoyed playing the game two weeks ago, well, three of the players did, the group decided they wanted to play another game of Tales of the Arabian Nights, formerly published by Z-Man Games (who are no longer in business).
I'm not going to go into detail about the game, but suffice to say that we managed to play a complete game in around 4 hours and a bit, we didn't rush things, and just had fun watching the characters suffering the slings and arrows of Fate, Arabian Nights style. Suffice it to say, I got cursed, haunted, imprisoned, shape-changed into an animal, and Lost in the game (several times), but I did manage to go to a magnificent mystical place (where I got shape-changed, by the way). I didn't win the game, Kathy did, but I couldn't have cared less as I was having so much darn fun and just having a relaxing evening, enjoying the adventures and mishaps of my character (and those of the other players and their characters). Insofar as Kathy is concerned, I don't quite know how she did it, but Kathy was able to win the game around 11:00 pm or so, despite having been shipwrecked, enslaved (twice), sex-changed, and tortured twice. She just...snuck it up on the other players, and no one was more surprised than Ellie when her mother announced after taking care of a turn in Baghdad that she had the victory, and showed us her conditions! The others all got into their fair share of turmoil and trouble, but it was a fun game to play again.
Had a fun night of gaming, and look forward to playing more board games with the Friday night (and Sunday afternoon) group(s).
Since they had enjoyed playing the game two weeks ago, well, three of the players did, the group decided they wanted to play another game of Tales of the Arabian Nights, formerly published by Z-Man Games (who are no longer in business).
I'm not going to go into detail about the game, but suffice to say that we managed to play a complete game in around 4 hours and a bit, we didn't rush things, and just had fun watching the characters suffering the slings and arrows of Fate, Arabian Nights style. Suffice it to say, I got cursed, haunted, imprisoned, shape-changed into an animal, and Lost in the game (several times), but I did manage to go to a magnificent mystical place (where I got shape-changed, by the way). I didn't win the game, Kathy did, but I couldn't have cared less as I was having so much darn fun and just having a relaxing evening, enjoying the adventures and mishaps of my character (and those of the other players and their characters). Insofar as Kathy is concerned, I don't quite know how she did it, but Kathy was able to win the game around 11:00 pm or so, despite having been shipwrecked, enslaved (twice), sex-changed, and tortured twice. She just...snuck it up on the other players, and no one was more surprised than Ellie when her mother announced after taking care of a turn in Baghdad that she had the victory, and showed us her conditions! The others all got into their fair share of turmoil and trouble, but it was a fun game to play again.
Had a fun night of gaming, and look forward to playing more board games with the Friday night (and Sunday afternoon) group(s).