At The Table with The Dice Tower - Paint Me A Picture

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Eric starts the show by sharing tales of his European adventures, which leads Tom to share some of our plans for Spiel in October. Then, we discuss the process for adding art to your game. How do you find an artist? How long does it take to draw a picture of a horse? What if the horse is holding a corn dog? Later, we share a tale of horror and a question, and move on to our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:48 - Middle of the Year? - School Starting

02:23 - Eric's European Adventure

09:25 - Spiel Plans

12:14 - Art in Games

34:56 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror/Question

46:32 - Sancturary

48:42 - Vantage

56:21 - Bomb Busters

58:37 - Menagerie

1:01:44 - This Game is Killer: Frozen Horror

1:05:12 - Potion Explosion: The 6th Student

Questions? Tales of Horror? [email protected]

Transcript

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0:00.0	At the Table with the Dice Tower.
0:01.8	Episode 53.
0:03.4	Paint me a picture.
0:28.5	Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.
0:32.0	Today we're talking about the process of adding art to your game.
0:54.6	How many rounds of revisions do I get on my promo card to make sure they get the twinkle in my eye just right. Plus, another round of roses, thorns, and hula hoops. I'm Eric Summerer. I'm Julie Ahern. And I'm Tom Vasil, and welcome to the show, everybody. It is the middle of the year. Not really, we're kind of past the middle of the year, but we are, it feels like the middle of the year.
0:55.6	A little bit.
0:56.8	For some reason or other, I guess school is about to start and school years are kind of
1:01.9	where I split my years.
1:03.4	Yes.
1:04.1	I was just telling Eric, before we start the show, daughter four is going to college.
1:09.4	Well, technically it's daughter five, but four kids out of the house now.
1:13.3	Wow.
1:13.9	I'm down to three kids.
1:15.1	Wow.
1:15.4	This is nothing.
1:18.9	Wow.
1:19.8	I just, I've lost count.
1:21.6	It's amazing.
1:23.0	We're getting old.
1:24.9	When we're doing the podcast as we were announcing kids being born.
1:28.5	That is not an announcement, folks.
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