At The Table with The Dice Tower - Best and Wurst of Essen 2024

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Tom and Julie are back from Germany with stories to tell. We talk about the crowds, events, snacks, and games of Spiel before shuffling through a new Tale of Boardgaming Horror. And we close the show with some of our latest Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

01:02 - Back-to-Back WSBG and Spiel

06:10 - Crowds at Spiel

11:23 - Tom and Julie Together (Briefly)

13:33 - New Management Changes

17:28 - First Look Area

21:34 - Games at the Fair

25:24 - Dice and Mystics Meetup

27:07 - Punching Games

27:34 - Hottest Designer and Hot Games

28:47 - Small Games

30:09 - Accessories and Art

31:20 - Snack Draft and Food

33:27 - Joy in Interaction

34:54 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

38:03 - 1 A.M. Jailbreak

41:29 - Aerodome: Rising Horizons

45:39 - Ito

51:14 - Conservas

55:32 - Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth

58:55 - Betakkuma's Fart & Furious

Transcript

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0:00.0	At the table with the Dice Tower.
0:02.0	Episode 31.
0:03.9	The best and worst, and by worst I mean W-O-R-S-N-O-S-N-O-S-N-O-S-N-O-S-N-O-S-N-T.
0:10.0	That's not what it says.
0:11.2	It's a pun.
0:11.9	It's W-U-R-S-T.
0:14.0	Not doing it.
0:15.0	Not doing it.
0:16.0	The best in versed.
0:17.0	Refuse.
0:18.0	Run the music. I'm going to do. Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.
0:43.6	This time, Tom and Julie are back from Essen and ready to tell stories.
0:47.5	Were our predictions right when it came to the hottest games of the fair?
0:51.2	We also have a new tale of board gaming horror and of course
0:54.0	there have been games to play including some roses, thorns, and hula hoops. I'm
0:58.3	Eric Sommer. I'm Julie Ahernd. And I'm Tom Bassleil and goodness gracious, great balls of fire.
1:06.6	Any filthy liar who says it's good to go to conventions back to back is just what I said.
1:13.0	So I mean...
1:15.0	I don't know if I ever said it was good. I think it's exciting but good is subjective. I don't think anybody is excited about
1:24.7	doing back-to-back conventions. We've talked with retailers and folks that run booths and
1:28.8	have to do that sort of thing every once in a while and no one's happy about it.
1:32.0	Yeah I did the World Series of Board Gaming, flew home for a day and a half,
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