At The Table with The Dice Tower - Life, The Universe, and Everything in the Rulebook

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

We kick off this episode with some chit-chat regarding the moving of Dice Tower HQ, some upcoming events, Tom's efforts to impress the chef at a Japanese restaurant, and the most played games at Dice Tower West. A listener question leads us to discuss the layout of rulebooks and how best to do so. We share a new Tale of Boardgaming Horror, and close the show with a typical wave of Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:53 - Moving the Studio

03:14 - Upcoming Events

03:52 - Tom at Dinner

07:26 - Most Played Games at Dice Tower West

12:50 - Dice Tower East and Dice Tower Cruise

13:23 - Rulebook Layout

36:55 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

45:57 - Catan 6th Edition

52:32 - Bad Apples

58:00 - Sentient

1:01:18 - Monkey Labs

1:03:02 - Ostia

1:05:58 - My Favorite Things

Questions? Tales of Horror? [email protected]

Transcript

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0:00.0	At the Table with the Dice Tower.
0:02.2	Episode 42.
0:04.1	Life, the universe, and the people who play them.
0:31.7	On today's show, thanks to a question from the mailbag, we're talking about the layout of the
0:36.1	rule books in our favorite games. Can the rules be too
0:39.4	graphically designed? We also have a new tale of board gaming horror and will consolidate some of our latest plays into the form of roses, thorns, and hula hoops. I'm Eric Summerer. I'm Julie Ahern.
0:51.4	And I'm Tom Vassel. Welcome, everybody.
0:56.5	It is the month of March.
1:00.2	We are post-Dice Tower West, and the future is upon us.
1:01.3	The future is here.
1:11.3	Yeah, well, future for me, the Dice Tower staff down here in Homestead, which is the southernmost city in the continental U.S. We're moving from that northeast, northwest, sorry, to Fort Myers.
1:17.9	It's about two and a half hours away, and yet somehow I need to drag the studio and
1:22.9	multiple households over there.
1:24.8	Are you going in a big caravan?
1:27.6	No. Are you singing like in a big caravan? No.
1:28.6	Are you singing moving right along while you do it?
1:32.9	See?
1:33.6	This is why neither of you are invited.
1:36.6	Oh, I mean I want.
1:39.2	Anyone who sings moving right along is not actually moving.
1:42.6	There's stuff.
1:43.3	Absolutely not.
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