At The Table with The Dice Tower - Go Forth and Retreat

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This Time, Tom, Julie, and Eric recount their adventures at the Dice Tower Retreat and the Alliance Trade Show, try to get to the bottom of marketing strategies for Boardgame "families", present a new Tale of Boardgaming Horror, and share some Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:58 - Dice Tower Retreat Recap

07:53 - Alliance Trade Show Recap

13:12 - Hasbro Women Innovators of Play

17:00 - Lawn Games

21:00 - Boardgame Families

35:41 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

43:19 - Beat the 8 Ball

45:56 - NOOBS in Space

48:52 - Bonsai

51:41 - Wandering Towers

53:59 - BOOoop

56:43 - Unfold: Through the Wall

Hasbro's Women Innovators of Play Challenge - https://spark.hasbro.com/womeninnovators?fs=e&s=cl&fbclid=IwAR0gIKC7IQEviKh7tE21gY8utJbiSBEpuEOJ0ANxaQvymgx_yLPaCFmi5Y0

The Jack Vasel Memorial Fund - http://jackvasel.org

The Dice Tower West - http://dicetowerwest.com

The Dice Tower Cruise - http://dicetowercruise.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	At the Table with the Dice Tower
0:02.0	Episode 3
0:03.3	Go forth and retreat
0:24.8	Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them
0:29.6	This time we talk about where we've been lately, discuss the challenges of marketing board game families
0:35.2	and unveil a new tale of board gaming horror. I'm Eric Sommer
0:39.2	I'm Julia Herne
0:40.4	And I'm Tom Vassel
0:42.4	It's kind of a weird time of year because I am super exhausted, preparing for both World Series of board gaming and SN back-to-back
0:51.4	Oh yeah
0:52.4	By the way, back-to-back conventions is the best
0:56.4	He says in quotes
0:58.4	But we just did the Dice Tower retreat and that was a fantastic
1:06.4	Just really good time relaxing and I played so many games. I mean so many games there. It was very very good
1:14.2	So what do you think was the most popular game?
1:17.8	Played there there was there was a few so if you get any of the few, I'll give you points. Julie. You want to go first?
1:25.6	I will go with the things that were hot at GenCon and say what about World Wonders
1:33.6	That was pretty hot there. Unfortunately we only have one copy
1:37.6	So I think if we had two copies it would have been playing more but yes that was that was one of the top played games
1:44.6	I'm going to say Thunder Road vendetta
1:46.6	That was in one of the two most popular games
1:51.6	And I think Chris took a picture of both of them being played next to each other
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