At The Table with The Dice Tower - Going East 2025

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

It's time to recap our adventures at Dice Tower East 2025. We discuss the games we played and events we ran, and you also get to hear what Eric and Julie got up to when working at the Dice Tower Booth, which includes brainstorming ways to get Tom to remember the difference between Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:46 - We Didn't See Each Other

01:45 - Gen Con is Around The Corner

03:26 - Dice Tower East: New Space

05:40 - Eric and Julie: How Do You Spend Small Amounts of Free Time?

09:28 - Library Checkouts: My Father's Work, Hot Streak, Bomb Busters, So Clover, Cretaceous Rails, Fromage, River Valley Glassworks, Lord of the Rings Duel, Toy Battle, Castle Combo, Sky Team, SETI, Galactic Cruise

16:26 - Eric and Julie: Favorite Old Game To Teach? - Fearsome Floors, Ra

19:05 - Variety of Games Played: Space Base, Ready Set Bet, My Father's Work (again), Merchant of Venus, Cosmic Encounter

25:33 - Missing Deep Regrets

26:16 - Eric and Julie: Game To Make Tom Play?

28:34 - Events: Parsely, Andrew Bosley Can't Draw, The Hobby

33:28 - Dexterity and Pitchcar

35:51 - Eric and Julie: Helping Tom Remember

37:59 - Giant Jenga and Thank Yous

41:06 - Positano

44:32 - Diatoms

46:41 - Horrified: World of Monsters

50:24 - Peaks

53:02 - Radioactive Bees

55:50 - 13 Leaves

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0:00.0	At the table with the dice tower.
0:01.9	Episode 50.
0:03.4	Going East 2025.
0:29.4	Welcome. Welcome to At the Table with a Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.
0:34.2	On today's show, we look back at Dice Tower East, where we all briefly saw each other.
0:39.0	Where did we go? What did we do? And most importantly, what did we play? Of course,
0:44.4	we'll answer that question in the form of roses, thorns, and hoolers. I'm Eric Summerer. I'm Julie Ahern. And I'm Tom Vassel, and you are not wrong, Eric. I'm... I did not see much of you at
0:50.7	Dice Tower East. I'm not wrong. I'm going to save that. We were very busy.
0:56.6	Like we crossed pads only a few times and at one point Julie ran over and said, I need to take a picture to document this.
1:03.0	And it was at the very tail end of the show. We... And it was blurry. It was. It was what I did.
1:10.0	I think you must have been playing games a lot, Eric. I was. I got a lot of games played. It was what I did. I think you must have been playing games a lot, Eric.
1:12.8	I was. I got a lot of games played. I was in and out. We saw each other in the mornings.
1:17.1	That's usually when we cross paths.
1:19.0	I'm always there in the mornings.
1:21.2	Yeah. So Dice Tower East is done. And we're going to talk about that in just a minute, folks.
1:25.6	Just want to remind you that if you feel some sort of sadness that you're not there, you definitely can find us
1:35.0	at our upcoming conventions. Daystar Cruz still has tickets for sale. And Daystar West, it hasn't
1:41.6	gone on sale yet, but that will be coming in March. And, of course, Dyshire East.
1:45.4	Stuff's always happening.
1:46.8	Specifically, though, Gen Con is coming up in three weeks.
1:52.2	Oh, my goodness.
1:54.0	I don't cry because I don't like Gen Con.
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