At The Table with The Dice Tower - Hype It Up
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Julie shares more news about her new position, after which we discuss the finer points of Hype. How does one manage excitement about a product when it's not necessarily playable yet? Then, we have both a question from the mailbag and a Tale of Boardgaming Horror, and we close the show with some new Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.
00:00 - Introduction
01:18 - Summer Approaching - Hot Games at Dice Tower East
03:00 - Gamefound Pledge Manager - www.supportdicetower.com
03:55 - Julie's News Continued
06:25 - Hype
28:57 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror
34:14 - Question: Card Sizes
37:56 - The Emerald Flame
42:28 - Rollie
46:27 - The Cat Between Us
49:43 - Tag Team
53:08 - "Normal" Human
55:28 - Star Trek Space Hunt
Questions? Tales of Horror? tom@dicetower.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | At the Table with the Dice Tower. |
| 0:01.9 | Episode 70. |
| 0:03.1 | Hype it up. |
| 0:28.1 | Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them. |
| 0:30.8 | This time we look at managing the hype train. |
| 0:34.8 | How do you maintain enthusiasm for a game nobody can get yet? |
| 0:39.4 | Plus, questions, horror, roses, thorns, and hula hoops. |
| 0:40.5 | I'm Eric Summer. |
| 0:41.9 | I'm Julie Ahern. |
| 0:44.6 | And I'm Tom Vassel, and welcome everybody. |
| 0:45.9 | Welcome back. |
| 0:47.5 | It is May. |
| 0:49.8 | Mayflowers bring April showers? |
| 0:50.4 | No. |
| 0:51.3 | Wait, what? |
| 0:53.6 | Mayflowers bring pilgrims. That was the joke. So, what? Mayflower's being pilgrims. |
| 0:56.1 | That was the joke. |
| 1:01.6 | So, let's see, we're 30 days out from hurricane season or something. |
| 1:02.3 | Oh, goody. |
| 1:04.5 | That is what it is. |
| 1:10.3 | Every year they're like, we think this year there will be higher hurricanes than normal. |
| 1:12.2 | Like, you're just trying to scare us again.'s every year they said that last year and last year it was less hurricanes than normal |
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