History of the World (board game) the number of armies it gets, its capital or starting location in parentheses, and the seas it can navigate in parentheses. Each epoch there is a minor empire and a kingdom that can be played as event cards, and these are listed at the bottom of the epoch. History of the World (board game) History of the World (often abbreviated HotW) is a board game designed by Ragnar Brothers and originally published in 1991. It is played by up to six different players in seven different epochs; each player playing a different empire in each epoch. The first edition of
Tales of the Arabian Nights (board game) Tales of the Arabian Nights (board game) Tales of the Arabian Nights is a board game first published by West End Games in 1985. "Tales of the Arabian Nights" is a paragraph-based storytelling board game. "Tales of the Arabian Nights" was first published by West End Games in 1985, and was designed by Eric Goldberg. It was re-issued in 2009 by Z-Man Games in a revised, corrected, and much expanded form. Jeff Grubb comments: ""Tales of the Arabian Nights" succeeds because its rules match its subject matter so well. The paragraph system within the "Book of Tales" nicely mirrors the