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The Dice Tower

At The Table with The Dice Tower - Table For Three

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Tom and Eric learn that they've known Julie longer than they remember. Then, we discuss the ways local game stores recoup the cost of the play space they provide. We delve into a new Tale of Boardgaming Horror, and we close the show with our latest Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:44 - Announcements: Dice Tower West

03:06 - Tom, Julie, and Eric's First Meeting

03:56 - Table Space at Your Local Store

27:06 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

36:20 - King of Tokyo Duel

40:07 - Spotlight

43:34 - Vampire Village

47:20 - Lure

49:05 - HiFi

51:41 - Gardlings

Transcript

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0:00.0

At the table with the Dice Tower.

0:02.0

Episode 28.

0:03.5

Table for three! Welcome! Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.

0:29.0

This time we look at the ways your local game store pays for the table space they provide to

0:34.0

gamers. We also have a new tale of horror and of course we close the show by

0:38.8

breaking down our recent roses, thorns and hula hoops. I'm Eric Sommer. I'm Julie Ahern. And I'm Tom Vassal, and welcome to the busiest time of the year. I was talking to my dad, and he said something like are you doing something is your

0:54.8

daughter graduating next year and I said no she's graduating this year oh yeah

0:59.9

technically that is next year next year because as a parent and I used to be a teacher my

1:07.0

years go from August to August yeah and even as a board gamer it's sometimes easy to think of a year as GenCon to, well next

1:17.4

GenCon or gamma to gamma or whatever, but January feels like almost part of the previous year or not part of the year at all.

1:27.0

But right now we are in the middle, right?

1:30.0

This is the zenith of the year where we are halfway between Gencon and Essen.

1:37.0

Well, a little bit less than halfway, but still, we're there.

1:40.6

And so much is going on, and there are so many games out there and so many games

1:44.8

are falling by the wayside that no one's playing because you just don't have time

1:48.6

to play them all. Not to mention all the kids are going back to school right now so

1:52.3

there's that added level of stress.

1:55.3

Yeah yeah so all the stress is going on and so how can you relieve stress? Well that's by coming

1:59.6

to Dicetower west go check out Dice Tower West. Come.

2:03.4

Nice segue.

2:04.4

But it is, here's the thing about Dice Tower West.

2:08.3

It's in the middle of the school year.

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