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Written by Ben on 2024-12-18 at 06:31

[#]TotAN — Tales of the Arabian Nights

Maps! I love cartography, but I’m not going to make that a hashtag because anyone actually involved with it would cringe at the liberties taken with this warped projection. Having said that I did try to pull and push things around to be closer to where they should be compared to previous versions of the board… and reattached the Malay peninsula. Yeah yeah things are still a bit off—it’s fantasy, ok?

This is the fourth edition of the game, but in my travels I came across four previous versions of the board—there was an Italian version that looked similar to the French one although it had different flavour images. As a 40th Anniversary, I wanted to pay homage to a bit of all the versions while giving it its own personality. The second edition was, I think, German only and it was very dark. Third edition emulated that. The Gallimard edition was gorgeously vibrant and provided the initial direction. Love that map.

“But why isn’t it all grimdark like 3rd ed? It’s got ‘Nights’ right there in the title!”

Well, Scheherazade was telling her tales at night, but the adventures were colourful and dazzling. The board should be, too!

The campaign is in its last 2 days now–currently over 250k AUD!

https://gamefound.com/projects/play-to-z/tales-of-arabian-nights-40th-anniversary-edition?refcode=GTqm-p1CJEWLTAw3y9UtJg

^refcode (should you choose to use it) is for the Fediverse as I'm trying to convince folks to be here with us

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Written by Ben on 2024-12-18 at 06:46

"The map should look like a 13th century Arabic map!"

Al-Qazwini’s world map of the inhabited world:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_Cosmography_Zakariya_al-Qazwini.jpg

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Written by Ben on 2024-12-18 at 06:49

Going a bit earlier than that to the 12th century is Al-Idrisi’s world map. I absolutely love that blue ocean colour. The lumpy mountains are a theme in some later cartographer's maps…

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