At The Table with The Dice Tower - Fit To Print

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This time, Tom, Julie, and Eric tackle the world of print boardgame journalism by listing their favorite gaming magazines, past and present. Our new Tale of Horror only tells half of the story, and we close the show with some Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

01:10 - Announcements: World Series of Boardgaming and Spiel

02:39 - What Was Our First Podcast?

04:39 - Boardgame Magazines: Still a Thing?

06:24 - Is Print Superior?

09:53 - Early Titles: Wargaming, White Dwarf, The General

12:35 - GAMES Magazine

13:04 - Spielbox

13:26 - Game Trade Magazine

16:25 - Knucklebones

17:10 - Promos in Magazines

19:49 - Trade Magazines

20:12 - Casual Game Insider

21:30 - Trades and "Review Ads"

25:32 - Sumo and Counter

26:32 - Senet

28:09 - Snowbright Studios

30:02 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

34:57 - Milkman

40:39 - Wondrous Creatures

43:26 - Parsely: Dangertown Beatdown

47:52 - Xylotar

51:00 - You Gotta Be Kitten Me!

54:32 - Coyote

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BGG's Magazine Wiki: boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Game_Magazines

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0:00.0	At the table with the Dice Tower.
0:02.0	Episode 29.
0:03.7	Fit to print. Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.
0:29.0	On this episode, we look at the various print publications that cover board games.
0:34.0	We also have a new tale of horror.
0:36.0	And of course, we close the show by frolicing through our recent roses, thorns, and hula hoops.
0:42.0	I'm Eric Sommerer. I'm Julie Ahern and I'm Tom Vassal.
0:47.0	So careful. So very careful, Julie.
0:51.0	I mean, when you're on you have a post about your
0:55.8	pronunciation of your name you start to second-guess yourself. I know it's hard. I think you're
1:01.3	doing great. It's plenty of separation.
1:04.0	No one noticed.
1:06.0	No one noticed.
1:07.0	It was sly.
1:10.0	All right folks, well, thanks for joining us here at the dice tower. We are going to be at a few events coming up in the future
1:17.4	So the world is series of board gaming in Las Vegas
1:20.8	There's gonna be open gaming there and also the best of the best fighting over who is, well, the best at board gaming.
1:30.0	And much of the Dice Tower staff will be there, so come by and say hi to us if you're in
1:34.0	Vegas and at that convention and we'll also be streaming many of the I think we're
1:39.2	streaming ten different games of the ring term.
1:44.2	It's also some live plays from there.
1:46.0	I'll be playing Cosmic Encounter Live.
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