The Dice Tower episode 362, origins 2014. Welcome. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and

especially the people who play them. This time we are on location at origins 2014 in Columbus, Ohio, with a bunch

of gamer on the street interviews, giving you a view of the con from the floor of the show.

I'm Eric Sommerer, here's your host the man they call

Patient Zero Tom Thassal. I hope I'm not Patient Zero. What Eric is referring to was that at origins I arrived on

Tuesday and Wednesday was quite sick. Thursday still kind of sick and then

recovered enough to be pretty involved Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

The problem being is that being sick kind of knocked my schedule around a bit.

Now we went to Origins, Game Fair 2014 and we were going to set up and do videos and we did

that what's called the Origins Summer Preview in conjunction with Origins and we did 61 videos of different games and I

have a big thank you to my team Eric Summer, Sam Healy, Daniel, Matt Hosey, and Ryan Metzler and all of them really helped

out which was good because I was really sick a lot of the time and for those

of you who I didn't run into because I was sick I apologize we were going to do a lot

more live tweeting anyhow all this you may say where is Eric I'm not hearing his voice that's because Eric was on vacation

So I'm giving him a break for this episode and this episode as Eric said at the beginning is going to be a little bit different. What we're going to be doing is going to the show.

I carried this microphone around with me and I walked around and just randomly talk to people.

And who knows how that will turn out. If you hate this episode, well

the good news is it's just one of a kind. But before we get into the show

before we jump to the floor and see what's there.

Let's have a little bit of Eric here where he talks with his sons

about their experiences at Origins.

All right, so it's a couple of days after Origins 2014, and so you guys have had a chance to process this.

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