TDT # 554 - Games that teach History

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

In this show, we talk about Mistborn, Queensdale, Incorporated, Space Base, Pass the Pandas, and Felicity: The Cat in the Sack. Travis Chance from Kolossal Games comes on and talks about what it's like to start a company from scratch, and we hear another tale of Horror. Finally, we end the show with our top ten games to teach History!

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0:00.0	The Dice Tower is made possible by listeners like you.
0:03.0	Thank you for your support.
0:04.4	And by Cool Stuff Inc.
0:06.1	Cool Stuff in stock at coolstuff Inc. dot com.
0:09.6	The Dice Tower, episode 554. Teaching History. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and especially the people who play them.
0:40.0	On today's show, Travis Chants from colossal games joins us to talk about
0:45.4	balancing a busy production schedule. We chat about some recent plays and we
0:50.1	present a tasty tale of board gaming horror.
0:53.6	Plus we continue our new educational series
0:56.3	with our top 10 games that teach history.
0:59.1	I'm Eric Somerer, and here's your host,
1:01.2	the Frankenberry to my Count Chocula.
1:04.0	Tom Vassil.
1:07.0	Okay, I get the reference here, Eric.
1:10.0	I don't get the, uh, what it has to do with history.
1:14.0	You know what I went I actually went looking for like famous historians and I couldn't find
1:22.1	one that you know there were all these articles that said, you know,
1:24.7	did you know, Harry Houdini was an amateur historian? Like, that's not going to work.
1:28.9	The Harry Houdini of board gaming, then you'd be like, what does Harry Houdini have to do with anything and then I guess I could have told this story so it would have worked fine.
1:37.0	Yeah, but you've already used Harry Houdini.
1:40.0	Okay then so, count Chocula.
1:43.4	We really have to make a document.
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