At The Table with The Dice Tower - Where Credit is Due

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Today, we focus on what designers should do when they've built a design on an existing game. How much borrowing is too much borrowing? We also look ahead to some upcoming events, share a new Tale of Boardgaming Horror, and run through our latest batch of Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:49 - Tom's Apology

01:25 - Dice Tower Cruise and Dice Tower East

01:52 - Tom's Catan Update: Seafarers

02:53 - Upcoming: Studio Move, Origins, Greece, College Visits

03:55 - Building Your Game on an Existing Design

32:41 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

39:33 - Roaring 20s

43:42 - Mystery of the Abbey

50:30 - CULTivate

54:42 - Faraway

57:42 - Nocturne

1:01:25 - Wroth

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Transcript

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0:00.0	At the Table with the Dice Tower.
0:02.1	Episode 43.
0:03.4	Where credit is due. 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 take on the ethics of building a game design on the shoulders of an existing game.
0:35.6	Where is the line between inspiration and rip off?
0:39.1	We also have a new tale of board gaming horror
0:41.5	and will round up a new batch of roses, thorns, and hula hoops.
0:45.3	I'm Eric Summerer.
0:46.5	I'm Julie Ahern.
0:48.0	And I'm Tom Vessel.
0:49.5	All right, folks, I have three things
0:51.5	to start off here with the beginning of this.
0:53.1	First of all, I would like to apologize to everyone last week when we read the title of the episode.
0:58.0	I wasn't really thinking about it and realized later that it was a cheap,
1:02.0	uninspired joke about it being the number 42,
1:05.0	which is one of the most overused jokes in the geekdom.
1:09.0	I'm very tired of it myself and I apologize for being part of that.
1:11.8	You know, but I struggled with this, but I also couldn't let it go without acknowledging that we
1:18.2	had hit 42. You could. You really can. I couldn't. I couldn't do it. I couldn't have either.
1:24.6	Anyway, secondly, Dice Tower Cruise, tickets are on sale now. Hopefully they're not sold
1:31.6	out by the time you hear this, but they went on sale April 1st. So come on, join us. It's fun.
1:38.3	Rush to the boat. I really shouldn't, I shouldn't be thinking about the cruise right now. And I'm not really.
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