At The Table with The Dice Tower - Back to Back

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Tower, Catan, Boardgame, Game, Board, Leisure, Dice, Card, Games, Vasel, Summerer

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Tom, Julie and Eric begin by recapping their recent travels, including Julie's trip to The Gathering of Friends and Eric's family trip to Washington DC and Philadelphia. Tom recalls the recent 36-hour marathon on the video chanel, which leads us into tips for playing several games in a row. We have a pretty darn horrific Tale of Boardgaming Horror, and finish the show with our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:43 - Playing Games All The Time?

02:40 - Jack Vasel Memorial Fund Auction (link below)

04:11 - Julie at The Gathering of Friends

14:32 - Eric in DC and Philly

16:23 - Marathons, Cons, and Playing Lots of Games in a Row

39:07 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

46:04 - El Burro (La Granja)

51:20 - Kohaku

53:48 - Cubitos: Fowl Play

55:45 - Expressions

57:51 - Agemonia

1:01:42 - Spinball

Link to the Jack Vasel Memorial Fund Auction (Ends May 12th, 2024):

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/333009/the-jack-vasel-memorial-fund-auction-2024-through

Transcript

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0:00.0	At the table with the Dice Tower.
0:01.7	Episode 19.
0:03.7	Back to back. Welcome. Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.
0:29.0	This time we give some advice on playing lots of games in a row, get soaked in a tale of board
0:34.5	gaming horror, and run through some of our recent roses, thorns, and hula hoops.
0:39.2	I'm Eric Sommer.
0:40.3	I'm Julia Hurry.
0:42.0	And I'm Tom Vassal and the number one thing that people when they find out about
0:48.9	our respective positions and they're outside the board game industry.
0:53.0	You're like, oh, so you play games all the time.
0:56.0	That's, you know, that's the question, you know, it's kind of, and then that's...
1:00.0	My always first response is to downplay it as much as possible.
1:03.8	You know, like no.
1:05.0	And it's really true.
1:06.0	There's so much more that goes into life than playing games.
1:11.0	But, but sometimes you do get to play a lot of games.
1:16.0	And that is, that is where we're at right now.
1:20.0	I am like, I could sit on a throne of all the games I played in the past few weeks and it hasn't it's not
1:26.4	slowing down I got another gaming weekend coming up ahead where I'm just gonna be playing a ton of
1:30.9	games and and I'm not hating that part.
1:33.7	This is the best part of the job.
1:35.6	Even when the games are terrible, terrible games,
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