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For the Love of Board Games is a book that explores how modern, popular board games were created by interviewing the designers behind the games.

Stories in this book come from some of the industry's biggest board game designers: Matt Leacock, Jamey Stegmaier, Bruno Cathala, Richard Garfield, Reiner Knizia, and many others.

Every chapter features a different board game designer and discusses not only the inspiration behind the game(s) they designed but how they started playing board games and got involved in the industry.

Designers will also reveal stories about board games they designed, but never published! Readers will discover the fun facts and challenges behind some of their favorite board games.

For the Love of Board Games is a must-have gift for tabletop gamers of all ages.

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.

Re-implements:

Tales of the Arabian Nights

Featuring a selection of the best articles published at boardgamesthattellstories.com - one of the most influential blogs dedicated to modern board games - Boardgames That Tell Stories 2 not only gathers the best from Ignacy Trzewiczek, but also serves as a compilation of great stories about game design and game publishing written by game designers from all over the world, including Mike Selinker, Rob Daviau, Bruno Cathala, Michal Oracz, Vlaada Chvatil, and Antoine Bauza.

Boardgames That Tell Stories is a selection of 35 best articles published in years 2010 - 2012 at boardgamesthattellstories.com - one of the most influential blogs dedicated to modern board games. Thanks to very successful Kickstarter campaign this book no only gathers best from Ignacy Trzewiczek, but also offers much more - it is a compilation of great stories about game design and game publishing written by best game designers from all over the world, including such names like Mike Selinker, Rob Daviau, Bruno Cathala, Michał Oracz, Vlaada Chvatil, Antoine Bauza and many more...

Following the victory in the Conflict of Autumn, The Regime of Winter has clutched the Land of Fairy Tales in its cold grasp. Fuelled by hate and fear, Winter aims at extinguishing the flame of Love and the light of Hope under a blanket of snow and the never-ending chill of a winter night. In the winding alleys and the small houses desperately clinging to the hillside of Wintertown, frightened Tales move in the shadows, knowing they cannot allow all Hope for the future to be snuffed out by the cold and ready to fight to drive Winter away and let Spring come again.

In Winter Tales, a storytelling board game, players tell the tale of the conflict between the characters of fairy tales, who represent all that is good and hopeful, and the Soldiers of Winter, who incarnate evil and the fierce cold of Winter. Players will ally themselves with one of the warring Factions, controlling characters and fighting for the comeback of Spring or the suffocation of all hope, bringing on an endless Winter.

Winter Tales is an ever-changing game as each time the players will tell a completely different story, creating a shared plot.