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Tom, which one are we on?

Tom?

Tom. Hello and welcome to the Dice Tower I'm Eric Sommerer this is a mini episode of the show

Tom announced last week that we would not be doing a regular episode and I swear I

didn't totally forget that and that's why I'm here.

This was on purpose that I showed up to record today and wasn't a mistake in any way at all. But since I'm here and you're here I wanted to sort of do an

origins addendum since I didn't really get to participate in the end of the show

in last week's episode I wanted to talk really quickly about how

doing the show with a family was, which is a very different experience. I also

wanted to talk about a few of the games I got to play at the show and then also just because this just happened today some brand new news from Z-Man games that I wanted to talk about real quick.

So first off, Origins with the Family. This is the first time

I brought the entire family with me to the show. It's the first time I brought anybody with me to the

show. And of course it's a very different

experience when I used to be just a solo gamer and and could fill all of my time

with pretty much whatever I personally wanted to do all of a sudden when you have an entire family to deal with, you have

to have their needs and wants come into play as well. My elder son is six years old. My youngest son is three years old and the three year old I think I would

avoid bringing a three year old to origins in the future.

Just the temperament was not a good mix.

It was almost sensory overload.

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