At The Table with The Dice Tower - Essen Anticipation 2024
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
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🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
It's our Essen Preview show for 2024! This time, we look at the various games we're most excited to check out at Spiel in Essen. And when we're done with that, we dash through our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.
00:49 - Asking to Bring Something Back
02:16 - Tabletop Together and BGG's Preview List
03:16 - Priorities
08:58 - Where Will We Be?
12:09 - 7 Empires
12:50 - 365 Adventures
14:01 - Ada's Library
14:50 - Apiary: Expanding the Hive
15:26 - Backstories: Alone Under the Ice
16:23 - Bone Wars
18:16 - Cat Horror Costume
19:11 - Chants for the Old Ones
20:00 - Civolution
21:03 - Conservas
22:32 - Dead Cells
23:38 - Flatiron
25:22 - Galileo Galilei
26:20 - Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth
27:26 - Minos
28:04 - Paella Park
29:58 - Power Grid: Outpost
31:19 - SETI
32:52 - Similo: Jurrassic World, 10th Anniversary, and Games Decks
34:18 - Temple of Horrors
35:50 - Unconscious Mind
37:00 - Vampire Nights
38:01 - Witchcraft: Midnights Expansion
39:19 - Dice Tower Essentials: Floresta, Vegetable Stock, Video Game Champion, Ito
41:58 - Food in Essen
45:25 - Pixies
47:56 - Robo Rally Transformers
51:01 - Mind MGMT
55:37 - Cat and the Tower
59:22 - Dadada
1:01:51 - Stickers
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Tabletop Together: tabletoptogether.com/tool/
BGG's Essen Preview: boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/68/spiel-essen-24-preview
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| 0:00.0 | At the table with the Dice Tower. |
| 0:02.0 | Episode 30. |
| 0:04.0 | Ess in anticipation 2024. Oh, Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them. |
| 0:31.0 | This time we look at our most anticipated games at the Spiel Fair in Essen, Germany. |
| 0:37.0 | What am I hoping to bribe Julie to bring back for me? |
| 0:39.5 | And of course, we closed the show by frolicing through our recent roses, thorns, and hula hoops. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm Eric Sommer. |
| 0:45.7 | I'm Julia Hearn. |
| 0:47.0 | And I'm Tom Vassal. |
| 0:48.6 | And yes, this episode is all about the Spiel Fair in Essen, and man oh man, it's the biggest |
| 0:57.8 | fair of the year. |
| 0:59.4 | And so, Eric said in the intro he's hoping to bribe Julie to bring back games for him, but that is a thing. |
| 1:05.6 | I think people don't realize... |
| 1:07.6 | It is a thing and you really shouldn't ask people to... |
| 1:09.6 | People do it all the time though, they're like... |
| 1:11.6 | You should not ask people to do it that being said I'm |
| 1:14.3 | asked every year so you know if you're the first one to do it that's it that's the one so |
| 1:21.3 | make sure you get in your risk soon. |
| 1:22.8 | People don't realize how much work it is because you have to go hunt that game down, |
| 1:26.7 | taking up your time at the Khan. |
| 1:28.1 | And it's not easy necessarily to get from one hall to the other |
| 1:30.6 | to get these games. |
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