At The Table with The Dice Tower - Essen Adventures 2025

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Tom, Julie, and Eric are back from Germany and ready to talk about games, food, crowds, and everything else they saw at Spiel 2025.

00:44 - Tired

01:50 - Official Numbers/Crowd Flow

07:09 - Travel Adventures and Weather

08:46 - What Was Different for Eric

11:31 - Food

13:35 - Eric's Birthday

15:44 - Julie's Author Signing

21:16 - Tom's Live Show

25:22 - Big Games

31:14 - How To Stand Out

35:51 - Limited Stock and How To Deal With It

40:17 - What Did We Go Home With?

44:12 - A Carnivore Did It

47:25 - Flow

50:50 - Ghost Lift

54:48 - Formidable Farm

58:22 - Leaders

59:52 - The Old King's Crown

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0:00.0	At the Table with the Dice Tower.
0:02.0	Episode 58.
0:04.1	Essent Adventures, 2025. Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.
0:31.6	This time we're back from Germany and ready to tell stories.
0:34.6	What did we see? What did the crowds run for?
0:38.1	Did we make it back in one piece?
0:40.3	I'm Eric Sumner.
0:41.5	I'm Julie Arn.
0:42.8	And I'm Tom Vassel, and we are all very tired.
0:46.9	I think, maybe just me.
0:49.9	It's not just you.
0:51.0	It is not just you.
0:52.8	We were talking before you, you arrived.
0:55.0	I think Julie and I were both up in like the 3 o'clock, 4 o'clock range this morning.
1:00.0	We're only two days back from travel.
1:03.0	And so what do they say?
1:04.0	You acclimate about an hour a day.
1:07.0	And so I've got another two or three hours to catch up on before I'm synced up with the United States just in time for the time change coming up this weekend. Is that really this weekend? Yes. It is. Well, that's not bad. Saturday into Sunday. We fall back again. Well, we get an extra hour. Sure. Okay. Sure. I don't think I need extra right now. Even if it's stupid, and we should stop doing this.
1:28.9	But, okay.
1:31.4	Well, anywho.
1:32.9	Yeah, so we just got back from the spielfare in Essen, which, well, there was a lot of people there, a lot of games there, and we were there for like a week.
1:45.5	Woo!
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