At The Table with The Dice Tower - Escaping Gen Con 2025

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We are back from Gen Con, and ready to talk about our adventures! We discuss the crowds, the events, and the games we enjoyed, and maybe a little about the food we ate as well. We also share a new Tale of Boardgaming Horror, and share our latest crop of Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:46 - Announcements: Dice Tower West and Dice Tower Cruise

01:40 - Gen Con: Crowds and Fans

10:25 - Gen Con: Sales and Sellouts

12:50 - Gen Con: What Did We Buy?

16:20 - Gen Con: Tom's Trends

20:42 - Gen Con: Dice Tower Awards

23:27 - Gen Con: Food

26:36 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

37:25 - Giraffe Raffe

40:13 - Tag Team

43:24 - Oddland

44:50 - At The Gates of Loyang

47:27 - Fliptoons

49:35 - The Four Doors

Questions? Tales of Horror? [email protected]

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0:00.0	At the table with the dice tower.
0:02.3	Episode 52.
0:04.1	Escaping Gen Con, 2025. Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play.
0:31.2	Hello from the other side of GenCon.
0:33.6	This time we run through our adventures at the show.
0:36.3	The awards handed out and the food trucks we encountered and a number of the games that made an impression.
0:42.4	I'm Eric Summerer.
0:43.3	I'm Julie Ahern.
0:45.0	I'm Tom Vessel, and I never went to a food truck.
0:47.1	Wow.
0:48.2	It was an experience.
0:49.9	Yeah.
0:50.7	There were a lot of people there.
0:51.6	Well, we'll get back to that in a sense.
1:12.8	I do want to say, folks, that registration for Dice Tower West, which is way less graded than Gen Con, but also lots of fun to play and all the games we talk about today, we'll be there in the library, unless they're bad. They might not be in the library then. We'll have pre-selected those games.
1:14.5	Yeah, well, we'll sifted them already.
1:17.4	You can sign up at dice tower west.com.
1:18.5	We'd love to see you there.
1:20.4	Also, many of these games will be on the cruise.
1:22.6	I believe the cruise is almost sold out.
1:25.7	But if you want to come, it is fantastic.
1:32.2	Also, not as crowded as Gen Con. Nope. That is very true, except occasionally the elevators feel like it. No. That's about it. They never, you must have been
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