I wonder when DF will do non-European fantasy

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Originally Posted by Phil Masters

Actually, it's "set" all over the place - China, North Africa, the Indian Ocean... The vaguely assumed default location for about half the stories is early medieval Iraq. All depicted with about as much realism as a Saturday morning kids' cartoon, mind you. It's a collection of popular stories that developed in medieval Syria and evolved in late medieval Cairo. The Persian (and Indian, and Yemeni...) roots are buried pretty deep.

Oh, and it features a couple of dungeon expeditions.

However all the versions centre around Shahryar, whom the narrator calls a "Sasanian king" and his new bride Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter who beings telling the king a story and not finishing that night the intince the king not to execute her the next day as was his custom, and keeping it up for 1001 nights.

Originally Posted by Phil Master

The vaguely assumed default location for about half the stories is early medieval Iraq.

Aka Persia. long before it even though of itself as Iraq.