At The Table with The Dice Tower - Essen Prep

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Tom is stuck in traffic, so Julie and Eric take control to discuss what it takes to setup a booth at Essen. How do you get all that stuff overseas, and how do you minimize what has to come back? And of course, there are Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:45 - Where is Tom? and Julie's Work Trip

03:56 - Dice Tower Cruise and Dice Tower West

05:07 - Moving a Booth to Essen

35:50 - Tiletum: Prospect for Silver

41:20 - I Made You a Mixtape

45:12 - High Tide

50:00 - The Yellow House

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0:00.0	At the Table with the Dice Tower, episode 56.
0:04.8	S in PrEP.
0:29.4	Well, Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.
0:35.2	This time, Tom has abandoned us, so we're going to talk about what it takes to move a publisher booth overseas.
0:38.3	How full will Julie's luggage be? Plus, our latest collection of roses, thorns, and hula hoops.
0:41.3	I'm Eric Summerer.
0:43.3	And I'm Julie Ahern.
0:45.3	And there is no Tom.
0:47.3	Yeah, so we've actually been talking.
0:49.3	I'm surprised that we have not had the opportunity to do an episode without Tom.
0:58.9	Tom got, we're going to say, stuck in traffic and was unable to join us.
1:05.3	And with our wacky schedules in this sort of two-week period, this was the one time we could get together.
1:07.6	Julie, you had sort of a last-minute work trip.
1:12.9	You had to skip away and do some final checks on one of your upcoming titles and couldn't record at our normal time. And then, of course, the streaming schedule on the Dice
1:17.8	Tower channel is full and Tom has a lot of meetings and stuff. This was hard to do. And this was
1:25.1	the window and Tom couldn't make it at the last minute.
1:28.8	So, we are here, you and I, we might as well chat and do an episode.
1:33.7	Why not?
1:34.4	How are you, Julie?
1:35.6	I just got home, and boy, are my arms tired.
1:38.8	No.
1:39.8	I'm good.
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