Hextraction Shahrazad Tile

Games within games will shred your friends' sanity when you play this mind-melting meta-tile for Hextraction, the hackable, 3D-printable board game. Since it requires out-of-game items, I've made this a Forbidden premium tile for experienced players only. Since it also turns regular games into agonizing hours-long death marches, I've made it even more Forbidden than usual.

In ancient tales of the Middle East, Shahrazad delayed her execution night after night by telling never-ending stories within stories. In ancient tales of Magic: The Gathering, Shahrazad was a card that started a sub-game of Magic, delaying the next round with never-ending table-filling board states. The groan-inducing legacy continues with the Shahrazad Tile, the most effective time-waster ever introduced to Hextraction, with an effect so absurd it needs both sides of the rules card.

When you play the Shahrazad Tile, you bust out another board and start a second parallel game of Hextraction. For the rest of the game, whenever a player rolls or plays, they can do so on either board. Technically ANY board, since you can put multiple Shahrazad Tiles in the pool, you bastard. You still roll once, play once, and have three tiles in hand, but you get to decide which board you take each action on. It should SIGNIFICANTLY extend games, far more than double, since players have more to think about and can avoid rolling on unfavorable boards.

I took mercy on you and modified the Shahrazad Magic card's effect: Winning the sub-game also wins you the main game. In practice, this makes the Shahrazad Tile more like a Ten-Dimensional Chess Tile, where multiple games run simultaneously and players must keep track of any of them. I just want to be absolutely clear: THIS TILE WILL NOT BE FUN TO PLAY. You have been warned.

If you're curious, the the original rule was "If a player would win the game and there's another active board, instead destroy the last board they used and all tiles on it. That player takes three consecutive extra turns." Feel free to slap it on a new rules card, you psychopath.

As a game-within-a-game tile, it only made sense to make this a tile-within-a-tile tile, so it has a tiny miniature Hextraction board on it. You need to print and add the star mini-tile - without it, the Shahrazad Tile loses its effect. Otherwise, the optional mini-tiles are just for fun. I suppose you could create an alternative rules card that makes them do something? You may need to scale these up or down slightly to get a tight fit... or glue them in place. Or don't print them at all. Or, best option of all, don't print any part of the Shahrazad Tile.

This tile's Forbidden effect is incompatible with the game rules, but can be enabled voluntarily. As the first copy of a Forbidden tile is played each game, call a vote. If any player votes nay, the tile's Forbidden effects are disabled. If all players vote yea, the Forbidden effects are enabled and take priority over game rules.

Since this effect is EXTREMELY cursed and MASSIVELY problematic, I made it Super Duper Extra Forbidden. Unlike a regular Forbidden tile, which only gets voted once per tile per game, any player, at any time, can nullify the effect retroactively. When this inevitably happens, destroy extra board that tile introduced and destroy every tile on it.

Also, note that I've templated this as an On Play effect, so destroying the Shahrazad Tile doesn't end the effect. It'll be awfully cathartic, though. I decided to make this a DIC tile with all orientations enabled, so it should be fun to play even without the effect. ESPECIALLY without the effect.

If you'd like to edit the tile, the source is here: https://a360.co/430zXg6 While you're free to re-distribute the tile outside Thangs' paywall, I'd like to ask that you at least modify it a bit. The fewer people buy Booster Packs, the less time I can devote to making more.

Since Forbidden tiles are too problematic for most players, I've decided to reserve mine as premium models for the most dedicated players. Play them responsibly, and thank you for supporting Hextraction!