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The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Tom, Julie, and Eric discuss some Thanksgiving plans before reacting to some recent manufacturing trends in the boardgame industry, from environmentally friendly choices, to the insistance that every game have a custom insert. Our Tale of Boardgaming Horror is a case of mistaken identity, and we close the show with some Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

01:02 - Shipping in the Game Box

01:45 - Thanksgiving

03:22 - PAX Unplugged and Christmas Videos

04:03 - All the Kickstarters are Delivering At Once

05:53 - Production Trends: Giant Rulebooks

07:33 - Self-Assembled Multi-Layered Boards

11:08 - Puzzle vs. Folded Boards and Other Board Trends

13:23 - Environmentally Friendly Choices: Stickers

15:13 - Bands and Paper Wrap Around Cards

17:18 - Paperboard Inserts

21:09 - Rewood

23:56 - Kallax as a Measure of Size

25:48 - Plastic Inserts

33:56 - Plastic Wrap on Punchboards

35:26 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

41:00 - Lords of Vegas

45:59 - EXIT Advent: The Missing Hollywood Star

48:32 - The Coldest Night

52:26 - Arbolito

55:04 - SETI

58:14 - Kronologic Paris 1920

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0:00.0	At the Table with the Dice Tower.
0:01.9	Episode 33.
0:03.6	Trendy.
0:28.4	Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.
0:32.3	This time we discuss some of the manufacturing trends we've noticed lately.
0:35.1	Why is my game wrapped in dried seaweed?
0:39.1	We also have a new tale of board gaming horror, and we discuss some of our recent plays in the form of roses, thorns, and hula hoops. I'm Eric Summerer. I'm Julia Hearn.
0:45.3	And I'm Tom Vessel, who would not be totally upset if my game was wrapped in dried seaweed.
0:49.8	I was thinking the same thing. I was like, uh, all right, let's cut that up into some squares and let's get some rice out
0:56.0	and we'll have a good time.
0:57.6	Yeah.
0:58.0	It's all the rage.
0:59.1	It's packaging and a snack.
1:02.2	I will say, I was just thinking about this.
1:04.6	I recently got a box from, it was probably Amazon with just the label on the game box.
1:12.1	Oh, man.
1:13.3	I always feel people's pain when that happens.
1:16.4	Yeah, that's, I've heard several instances recently of Amazon doing that.
1:24.3	See, here's the thing. I get that Amazon treats it like a box.
1:27.4	So like, you're going to throw the box away. But here's the deal. I get that Amazon treats it like a box. So like, you're
1:27.7	going to throw the box away. But here's the deal. I don't want people to know what boxes I'm getting.
1:33.7	But then I also just got a game box in a box, in a box, in a box. So I don't know. That's a
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