At The Table with The Dice Tower - Crowd Control
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Julie's out this time, so Tom and Eric spend time looking back at Epic Game Events that they've been involved with at conventions over the years. What worked well, and what did not? Plus, a question from the mailbag about digital vs. in-person gaming, and Tom and Eric each present a full set of Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.
00:47 - No Julie, February Lull
01:35 - Live Show at Dice Tower West (Friday 3pm)
02:42 - Groundhogs and Polka Interlude
03:21 - Dice Tower East and Curling
06:14 - Epic Game Events
36:37 - Question: Live vs. BGA?
42:33 - Age of Galaxy
46:05 - A Message from the Stars
50:06 - Trasteros/Storeroom Inc.
52:56 - Nuns on the Run (2nd Edition)
56:05 - Suds and Malone
1:00:49 - Lords of Worlds
Questions? Tales of Horror? tom@dicetower.com
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| 0:00.0 | At the Table with the Dice Tower. Episode 65. |
| 0:03.7 | Crowd Control. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them. |
| 0:34.6 | On today's episode, we look at our successes and failures in turning games into live events at conventions. |
| 0:38.4 | How do you make a game of Teach You an epic arena experience? |
| 0:44.1 | Plus, we venture into the mailbag and we return with a new batch of roses, thorns, and hulubes. |
| 0:49.4 | I'm Eric Summerer. And I'm Tom Vassel. And we don't have a Julie today. Julie's a little under the weather, so she said, go on without us. She sort of waved in the distance and said, |
| 0:53.8 | save yourselves, go. So we're, um, without us. She sort of waved in the distance and said, save yourselves, go. |
| 0:55.6 | So we're just a duo today. |
| 0:58.5 | Tom, how's it going? |
| 0:59.6 | It is February, right? |
| 1:01.0 | So that's an interesting time of year. |
| 1:03.7 | It's kind of a weird time in the board game world because there's not a lot of, |
| 1:08.5 | you usually have caught up on all the big game releases from last year, |
| 1:11.9 | maybe a few that you haven't played. |
| 1:14.1 | You might have some very early copies of releases coming out over the coming year. |
| 1:20.0 | But for the most part, it's kind of, there's not a lot going on. |
| 1:24.8 | It's not a lot on Kickstarter. |
| 1:25.9 | There's not a lot on announcements yet because Gamma trade show is around the corner, |
| 1:31.5 | and that's where a bunch of new games are announced there. |
| 1:34.9 | The summer is approaching. |
| 1:37.8 | Things are about to speed up. |
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