Z-Man Games just posted three variants for Tales of the Arabian Nights!

The variants are:

• Official Solo Rules
• Increased Player Interaction Variant (where you can use skills against each other)
• A Storytelling Variant (which encourages players to embellish their own story and offers extra rewards for doing so)

After reading over them, I know that I don't care a thing about the "Storytelling" thing.  If you really want a storytelling game with this same theme, you should probably check out Meg Baker's 1001 Nights instead.  One of the main reasons I will avoid this variant is that it would have to more than double the play time, which is not really a good thing.

The other two seem interesting, and I'll definitely give it another solo play to see if these rules make much of a difference.  I'll have to think a little about whether I really want player interaction in this game, but overall it seems to be pretty simple to include, and it would fit right in with the theme and the other events in the game.

So, what do y'all think of them?