Arabian Nights

Do you use Arabian Nights themes/aesthetics/ideas in your games anons?

Yes, I do. I've always had a thing for that setting, no idea why.

Jinn, Efreeti and related demons make for nice enemies, companions or even main characters.

I love Arabian Nights, and I always work in some vaguely arab corner of the world in case players are into it too. Some of the best sessions we have are out there on the dusty dunes, cutthroat camps, and perfumed palaces of the desert.

No, because I am at the same time autistic and more knowledgeable about the actual middle east and central asia than the people around me.

Yeah, it's a great look and feel, lots of fun

Really glad I'm not like this user

Hell yes. It's an amazing cultural mythology which is criminally underused, despite having a strong presence in classics like D&D through the City of Brass and similar.

You should be glad, it's awful. I really try to enjoy it I swear but on the long term there's always a tasteless cliche here or a ridiculous assumption there that ruins the experience for me.

I really want to play a middle eastern fantasy game and like it, but I simply can't. It's frustrating. It doesn't happen to me so much when we're playing L5R and I'm in a similar situation too.

You really need to learn to let go of the idea that fantasy shit needs to be 'realistic'.

Don't worry about it so much. Remember that this isn't our world at all: it just takes a bit of idealized aesthetics and stuff, and otherwise can be whatever you want it to be.