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The Dice Tower Tom Vasel and Eric Summerer
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Tom Vasel and Eric Summerer take a look at board games, card games, and the people who design, publish, and play them.
Top ten lists, Q&A, tales of horror, and more await you!
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At The Table with The Dice Tower - Two Steps Forward Two Steps Back
Tom, Julie, and Eric look back at Dice Tower East, and look forward to Gen Con, including which events they'll be at, and what games they're looking forward to. And, pressed for time, they share a Rose, Thorn, or Hula Hoop that will be available at Gen Con.
00:49 - Who Is Julia Hern?
02:13 - Dice Tower East Recap - Events
10:35 - Dioce Tower East - Library Games
23:19 - Gen Con - Where We'll Be
37:47 - Gen Con - Games to See and/or Buy
38:25 - Rock Hard 1977
40:13 - Horrified: World of Monsters
40:50 - Fromage
41:53 - Cascadia Rolling Hills and Nocturne (Because Foxes)
42:15 - Boop the Halls (Because Boop)
42:42 - Dice Tower Essentials (Aquatica Expansion, Foundations of Metropolis, Comic Hunters)
44:07 - Gateway Island
45:41 - Space Games for Eric: Star Trek: Captain's Chair, Wandering Galaxy, Flickering Stars
48:41 - Hello Kitty Day at the Park
51:41 - Wrath of Fire Mountain
54:00 - Go Cucoo
56:40 - Mistwind
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At The Table with The Dice Tower - Better Than The Original
Tom, Julie, and Eric discuss the results of the Origins Awards, and share the nominees for The Dice Tower Awards' Game of the Year. Julie tells us about her trip to Origins (and Tom pines for ice cream), and we ponder the dos and don'ts of upgrading your boardgame pieces. Then, we finish the show with our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.
00:17 - Gen Con Plans (Booth 331)
02:29 - Origins Awards and Dice Tower Nominees
11:46 - Julie at the Origins Game Fair
29:33 - Upgrading Pieces
48:50 - Captain Flip
50:28 - Cities
54:02 - Arraial
58:17 - This Game is Killer
1:00:58 - Pandemic Hot Zone: North America
1:03:18 - The Fog: Escape from Paradise -
At The Table with The Dice Tower - I Pick Things Up I Put Them Down
Tom and Eric congratulate Julie on her successful move, which leads to a discussion on keeping your collection to a reasonable size (so you don't have to move as much). We run through the nominees for the Spiel des Jahres (Germany's Game of the Year awards), answer some questions from the mailbag, and share our recent Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.
00:53 - School Schedules
02:17 - Con Schedules - Gen Con Booth 331
04:46 - Julie's Move: Transport Logistics and Culling Strategy
21:47 - Spiel des Jahres
31:46 - The Dice Tower Awards Show
33:08 - Mailbag: Game unplayed the longest?
38:26 - Mailbag: Unplayed favorites?
42:40 - Ticket to Ride Legacy
47:15 - Fish & Katz
49:20 - Super Kawaii Pets
51:08 - Shobu
54:14 - Windmill Valley
57:06 - Invincible: The Hero-Building Game -
At The Table with The Dice Tower - Places Please
This time, Tom recounts his trip to BGG Spring, and Eric reviews the Dungeons and Dragons show in New York City. We act out a new Tale of Boardgaming Horror, attempt to help answer a listener question, and close the show with our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.
00:47 - Summer Events
05:26 - Dice Tower District
06:09 - Tom at BGG Spring
13:22 - Eric at Dungeons and Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern
18:23 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror
26:53 - Listener Question: Unexpected Children
41:40 - Agueda
44:00 - The Almost Gone
47:18 - Dumb Ways to Die
50:31 - License to Grill
55:15 - Endangered Rescue: Galapagos Penguins -
At The Table with The Dice Tower - In The Year Two Thousand... Four
Tom, Julie and Eric run through some of their plans for Dice Tower East and Gen Con later this summer before taking a look at the year that was 2004, which was inexplicably 20 years ago. We share a new Tale of Boardgaming Horror, answer a question from the mailbag, and round up our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.
00:48 - Events at Dice Tower East
03:04 - Gen Con Plans
05:36 - Looking back at 2004 - 20 Years Ago
21:23 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror
28:52 - Listener Question: Digital Game Implementations
36:27 - Splendor
39:51 - Bus & Stop
42:44 - Clash of Galiformes
46:48 - BOG
50:02 - The Morrison Game Factory -
At The Table with The Dice Tower - Queen of Tokyo
Tom and Eric quiz Julie about her recent trip to the Tokyo Game Market, including some of the games she brought home, before moving on to a Tale of Boardgaming Horror and our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.
00:49 - Dice Tower East and Large Dexterity Games
02:27 - The World Series of Boardgaming
03:49 - The Universe Explained with a Cookie
04:42 - Julie at the Tokyo Game Market
30:48 - Acorns
32:38 - Shiki no Tabi
34:06 - Space Macho
37:25 - Do You Need To Go?
38:57 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror
43:18 - An Age Contrived
47:45 - Kinfire Delve
51:30 - Onitama
54:45 - Pickleball Blast!
59:17 - Slay the Spire
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No Longer for Me
At the Table should be a brand new podcast rather than carrying on under the Dice Tower podcast title. Likewise, it is not what I want from a board gaming podcast and so unsubscribed after a few episodes failed to dazzle me. Unsubscribed as well from the YouTube channel - it is far too bloated with live feeds, notifications, off topic discussions and other puff pieces. I can find comparable or better board gaming content without hosts or presenters that only pretend to be kind and considerate, that don’t support a disturbingly increasing level of toxicity in the gaming community, or annually package episodes of pre/during/post convention content pushed out each year - it is great you had a good time but I do not care and do not need to hear about all the fun you had while I have to work. It is the equivalent of someone telling you their dreams all the time; fun for them and an interminable slog for everyone else. Lastly, I find it very immoral and unethical and just plain rude for the Dice Tower to hold their yearly fundraising campaign so soon after the holidays. Most people are still recovering financially from the end of year festivities and you want to squeeze them for more money to fuel your gaming content? At the very least wait till mid to late spring to stage your kickstarter campaign.
Edit: I also find they cherry pick the causes, groups and people for which they’ll advocate and/or fundraise (which is normally fine) yet they want the credit and praise of being tolerant and an ally to everyone when they are clearly not. At best their “Christian values” and ally-ship is performative or, at worst, outright charlatanism.