At The Table with The Dice Tower - Plugging In

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This time, Tom shares his adventures in Mexico, and Julie has tales to tell from Greece. Then, we kick of our discussion of video games that feel like board games with Eric's obsession with Blue Prince, before moving on to a bunch of other electronic games, including some that have made the leap to boardgames. We open up the mailbag for a question and Tale of Horror, and break down our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:57 - Following the Script

01:21 - Announcements: Dice Tower Cruise and East

02:24 - Tom in Mexico

06:27 - Julie in Greece

06:48 - Video Games that Feel Like Board Games

08:05 - Blue Prince

10:42 - Slay the Spire

11:24 - Balatro

16:22 - PS Remote Play

19:26 - Final Fantasy Tactics

21:26 - Citizen Sleeper

22:21 - Sunderfolk

23:35 - Jackbox

24:57 - Telltale Games

26:24 - Making the Jump to Board Games

36:25 - Question/Tale of Boardgaming Horror

44:28 - We Love Cats

46:41 - Ito

49:55 - Donald Duck in Happy Camper

54:51 - The Morrison Game Factory

58:20 - Lynx

59:43 - Camino a Xibabla

Questions? Tales of Horror? [email protected]

Transcript

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0:00.0	At the Table with the Dice Tower.
0:02.0	Episode 45.
0:03.9	Plugging in. Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.
0:29.9	On today's show, Tom is back from Mexico and has stories to share.
0:34.1	Then we head to the world of video games to discuss my addiction to blueprints,
0:38.5	why it feels like a board game, and look at other board game adjacent forms of electronic entertainment.
0:44.1	We also have a question from the mailbag, or perhaps a tale of horror, and we'll round up a new
0:49.7	batch of roses, thorns, and hula hoops. I'm Eric Sommerer. I'm Julie Ahern.
0:55.3	And I'm Tom Vassel.
0:57.1	And I just noticed that Eric has it marked who says each line.
1:02.9	Like, you don't...
1:04.4	In the document, it says, Tom says, I'm Tom Vassal.
1:07.5	Like, well, I hope so.
1:09.2	Okay.
1:09.7	I want to be clear.
1:11.5	As we've noted, sometimes we have trouble following the script.
1:14.6	That's all.
1:15.2	I also had to fix it because otherwise Robert was going to be saying, and I'm Tom Vassel.
1:19.7	Thank you for doing that.
1:21.6	Well, anyway, it feels like ages since I've recorded one of these.
1:25.4	And part of that is true since we recorded, I think, the last one early, and then I missed one.
1:31.2	And so much has happened in the world since then.
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