At The Table with The Dice Tower - Better Than The Original

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

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

Transcript

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0:00.0	At the table with the Dice Tower.
0:02.1	Episode 24.
0:03.7	Better than the original. Oh, Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.
0:30.0	On this episode, Julie gives us the scoop on the origins game fair and we discuss the process of upgrading your game components
0:36.8	What do you do with hundreds of unused cardboard coins?
0:40.8	And of course we close the show by breaking down our recent roses, thorns, and hula hoops.
0:45.8	I'm Eric Sommerer.
0:46.9	I'm Julia Hearn.
0:48.2	And I'm Tom Vassal and it was a great week, probably.
0:52.2	Was it?
0:55.0	I at this point in time I'm still it's still only my headlights
1:00.0	the day's tower east but I'm assuming we'll talk more about Dyes Tower East in our next show, but it is over.
1:06.4	We will.
1:07.4	We're doing timey-whymy stuff because we're recording before it.
1:10.2	Or no, wait, no, that doesn't happen. We're just so overwhelmed by the joy of the week that we can't process it yet.
1:18.0	But here's what you can know folks, Booth 331, 331, or 333 if that's easier to remember.
1:26.0	Because technically we have 331,
1:27.8	332, and 33, but anyhow,
1:31.3	at GenCon, come by and see us we're going to be playing games from various
1:35.8	publishers there we're going to be hanging out with our merch there we're going to be
1:41.5	Well those are mostly oh you can come by and win a bag of games and it is an incredible bag of games like incredible a bag of games not you. Oh people with the dice tower can't enter Eric
1:52.3	I never get to enter the contests. No, you don't. None for you.
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