TDT # 369 - Post Gen Con 2014 Report
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2014
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
In this show, Eric and Tom take a look back at the GenCon 2014 fair held in Indianapolis. But we also spend a lot of time talking about games - including Black Fleet, Camel Up, Diamonds, Quilt Show, Castls of the Mad King Ludwig, King of New York, Kingsport: Festival, and Tragedy Looper. We end the show taking a pile of listener questions and giving hopefully decent answers to them!
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| 0:00.0 | Hosting for the dice tower is generously provided by cool stuff ink. |
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| 0:09.0 | Thanks for your support. |
| 0:11.0 | The dice tower episode 369. |
| 0:14.4 | Post-gen-Con. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and |
| 0:40.3 | especially the people who play them. |
| 0:43.0 | In this episode, Tom and I share our GenCon experiences, |
| 0:46.3 | including the hit games of the con, a movie review, |
| 0:49.7 | and our reaction to the show's record attendance. |
| 0:53.0 | Plus I have a tale of computing horror, |
| 0:56.2 | and we answer some questions from the mailbag. |
| 0:58.6 | I'm Eric Sommerer, and here's your host, |
| 1:00.7 | the Bert Bacharach of Board Gaming, Tom Vassil. And I will accept that. |
| 1:06.3 | You are now a bona fide genuine musical artist, Mr. Vassil. You know, I almost did. |
| 1:13.0 | Raindrops Keep Falling on my head as one of the songs. |
| 1:17.0 | That was... |
| 1:18.0 | I really liked the whole soundtrack for the Butch Cassidy and a Sundance kid. Yeah. It's an unusual soundtrack for a movie. It doesn't match, it doesn't match up with most soundtracks. |
| 1:30.0 | Yes, it is very different. And what we're referring to folks, if you missed it, our last episode, we were live at GenCon for our biggest live show ever. |
| 1:40.0 | It was big. I think we had we were estimating about 320 people in that room. There were 300 seats and we had lined the back of the auditorium. |
| 1:48.5 | I'm saying 350 because I like to exaggerate. That's good. But we're really hoping for a bigger room next year and |
| 1:54.9 | hopefully enough people are putting a bug in Gencon's ear to make it bigger. |
| 1:58.5 | Yeah that would be nice and that would be fun and it was super fun and we sang a |
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