 Thousand and one nights. Yo dawg. This game is crazy. This is a game where you play characters who themselves are playing characters in a role-play game within the game So you're in a song's court Thousand and one nights right you're not the song the song is this you know you talk to the song He's not really a character. It's just sort of like this imaginary object in the game Right that you worry you don't want to make the song upset and you also don't want to get executed or you know kicked out No, you can you play character like I was playing the Don Juan the poet the court poet on this pretty boy lover boy That's the dude I'm playing I didn't play in that game But our friend Pete did and he was the unique Mustafa been Mustafa Not racist at all now the way The way you make characters in this game is you write down for each sense the five senses Something about your character. He smells of lavender. He sees power and others whatever you want You have to focus everything based on the senses and for every other character sitting around the table you write what you envy about them So Mustafa been Mustafa envy my virility. I envy his physical strength It forces you to have a already existing internal relationship with every other character So when you get to sit down and actually play the game What happens is all of the characters are sitting in the Sultan's court talking to each other doing their thing Alright, so now it's you real-world and you have a character the character is Mustafa been Mustafa whatever talking to the other characters right your role play this out eventually during the role-playing Somebody will in character and say let me tell you a story about that that All of the characters in the game have new characters in that story You might think it's hard to do but it's actually incredibly easy like once you sit down the book is a tiny book You think how can this tiny book make this happen? It's never failed to work Yeah, even people who are usually not good at role-playing always get it right They remember every character's name and not just the character that they are his name the character in the second story's name Right can't even remember D&D characters names, but I can remember these guys name except dressed and You don't even know anything about No, I know about you talking about forgotten realms all the time It's a big part of my life in my youth. Yeah, the other cool thing about this game So you're playing these characters playing characters and part of the reason It's easy is that because you're playing a character a character is always simpler than you at least I hope it's simpler than you. Otherwise, you spend way too much time writing that back story So as a result you have a very simple focus You have this very simple lens through which to view the secondary character that that character is playing Couple with the fact that the characters playing a character in the context of the saltless court You get into situations where the eunuch wanting to take the wind out of my sails starts to tell the story of Don Juan, you know the epic lover and he assigns himself the role of the epic lover He assigns me the epic lover the role of the eunuch to put me in my place So now you've got a story where you got a guy role-playing a eunuch who is telling a story in which the eunuch is Role playing the Don Juan and then you got a grim playing a Don Juan who is in that story role-playing the eunuch So I come out of the stage when I'm introduced her to dirt. I'm the eunuch big and stupid. I sure wish I had balls I Insulted him at the second level The book also tells you to eat figs and dates and olives and lounge while playing We did that because in New York you can get Turkish delivery This game is amazing and I highly actually just recently got recently reprinted new edition. Yeah Where's every dollar tell the story of my character here I'm not gonna talk about my strength stat That's not interesting and it turns out that that's the only part of my character that is character That is story who he knows what he's done where he's going why he fights for what he fights for that's it And that whole character sheet that's it. Yeah, I'm trying to tell me this is a role-playing game But what percentage of it has anything to do with role-playing that percent and most of that is a picture