At The Table with The Dice Tower - Dice Tower West 2026
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Tom, Julie and Eric are live at Dice Tower West in Las Vegas taking questions from the audience and talking about the games they've played (with a brief Tom-less interlude from Eric and Julie).
01:01 - Dice Tower West Library and Most Played
03:59 - Julie in Demoville and Escape Rooms
06:06 - Julie Came With a List
08:24 - Star Wars: Battle of Hoth
09:28 - Tea Garden
11:01 - Orloj: The Prague Astronomical Clock
12:55 - Feierabend
15:21 - Merchant of Venus #100
16:47 - Fathom
18:38 - Shapely
21:03 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror
28:28 - Eric and Julie Interlude
29:10 - E&J: Stuff on Tables
31:39 - E&J: Strange Things to Carry
34:05 - E&J: What Shouldn't Stay in Vegas
36:51 - E&J: Drawing a Crowd
39:34 - Question: Game Opening Disasters
44:42 - Question: Escaping Jail
46:44 - Question: Comprehensive Rulebooks
52:01 - Minor Tom Rant: Authority to Answer Questions
52:58 - Question: Art for Prototypes
56:31 - Question: Deluxe Editions
58:37 - Question: Less or More of a Genre
Questions? Tales of Horror? tom@dicetower.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | At the Table with the Dice Tower. |
| 0:02.1 | Episode 67. |
| 0:03.8 | Live from Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who played it. |
| 0:31.3 | This time we are live in Vegas for one night only to bring a tale of horror to life, |
| 0:36.6 | take questions from the audience, share blackjack strategies, and round up some roses, thorns, and hula hoops. I'm Eric Summerer. I'm Julie Ahern. And I'm Tom Vassel, and we're, A, it's not night. One afternoon only. And we're here for more one day. What are you talking about? |
| 0:54.4 | That's true. |
| 0:55.0 | I wrote this days ago. I flew in and boy are my arms tired. Waka Waka. Anyhow. Alrighty. Well, hey, we are here at the convention live. They start West bigger than ever. And it seems to going really well. I want to say a couple things. I'm really happy. The library here is so cool with all kinds of... |
| 1:15.3 | They've really up their library. |
| 1:16.4 | The library is amazing. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm really happy. |
| 1:19.5 | themed Star Trek pictures. |
| 1:21.7 | Sure. |
| 1:22.3 | Better Star Wars stuff. |
| 1:23.4 | And it's really fun to browse. |
| 1:25.7 | So you've got little sections of here's all the space games together. And it's really fun to browse. So you've got, you know, little sections of here's all the space games together. |
| 1:29.8 | And it's all been decorated. |
| 1:32.1 | And there's... |
| 1:32.6 | Here's all the play to wins together. |
| 1:34.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.5 | Here's all of the... |
| 1:36.7 | Sometimes it's clustered by designer. |
| 1:38.5 | Sometimes it's clustered by location. |
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