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The Dice Tower

At The Table with The Dice Tower - Dude That's Heavy

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Julie's been to a castle! And GAMA Expo! We chat about those adventures for a bit before moving on to the topic of physical weight of our games. How heavy is too heavy? We also share a question from the mailbag, and collect some Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:54 - Winter Woes and Dice Tower West

05:42 - Julie and Hoop and Stick

11:25 - GAMA Expo

14:21 - Heavy Games

33:08 - Question: What Is the Soup of Games?

41:04 - Lairs

43:34 - Chicago Grand Slam

46:50 - Hot Streak

48:18 - Wilmot's Warehouse

52:08 - A Place for All My Books

54:35 - Regicide

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 66.

0:03.9

Dude, that's heavy. Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.

0:29.6

Today, Julie has just returned from a castle, and we get to hear about her adventures.

0:33.6

Also, we look at the physical weight of our games. Is using a full-size curling stone

0:39.4

as a start player marker going to be a problem for shipping? Plus, we search the mailbag for wisdom,

0:44.9

and we gather a set of roses, thorns, and hula hoops. I'm Eric Summerer. I'm Julie Ahern. And I'm

0:50.8

Tom Vassel. And welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, everybody. It is, we are post-winter. Well, not really. No, we're not. We had an ice storm last night. They canceled school yesterday. We had a delay today. Please, fly me away to drier and warmer weather, please.

1:08.8

I got warmer, not drier. Yeah, I was about to agree with that.

1:12.4

That's one of the things I'm working on today.

1:14.4

I'm like, that's right.

1:15.7

I'm going to where it's arid.

1:17.9

And I will shrivel like a California raisin.

1:23.1

But I've learned the tricks.

1:25.2

We're talking about Dice Tower West and Vegas, folks. But I've learned the tricks. We're talking about Dice Tower West and Vegas, folks.

1:27.6

But I've learned the tricks.

1:28.8

I bring chapstick and I bring the nasal spray, which does wonders.

1:36.3

And then when we land, I will grab Eric and Eric's like, what are we going to do?

1:40.2

And I'll be like, we're going to buy drinks.

1:42.1

And that's what we do.

1:43.6

That is what we're too, yeah.

1:45.7

So much water. Yeah. So many much water. So we are going to Dys Tower West. We'll be doing a live show there at 3 o'clock on Friday. So you have a chance to come out and say hi to us. They're going to be all over the place at various spots. If people want to find you, Julie, where would they go?

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