At The Table with The Dice Tower - Road Trip

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Today, we discuss our recent travel adventures. Eric has returned from a Ninja Escort Mission and ran into gaming opportunites at every turn. And Tom and Julie have the full scoop on the 50th Origins Game Fair in Columbus, OH. Then, we finish the show with a gathering of our latest Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:48 - Convention Season - Dice Tower East

01:53 - Playing Only Older Games

04:01 - What We're Doing at Dice Tower East: Parsely, Wits and Wagers

06:48 - Dice Tower Awards at Gen Con

08:11 - Eric's Ninja Escort Adventure

13:22 - Origins with Tom and Julie

14:32 - Origins: Special Events for 50th?

18:28 - Origins: Game Debuts and Exhibit Hall

28:31 - Origins: Board Room and Open Gaming

33:59 - Origins: Tom as Special Guest

35:28 - Origins: Julie's Adventures

38:06 - Origins: Lessons Learned

40:02 - TowerBrix

44:29 - Square One

48:57 - Apothebakery

53:48 - Kabob

57:42 - Orbit

58:59 - How Many What?

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0:00.0	At the Table with the Dice Tower.
0:02.0	Episode 49.
0:04.0	Road trip. Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.
0:29.6	This time we talk about our recent travels. Tom and Julie have just returned from the 50th Origins Game Fair,
0:35.6	and I ran into gaming opportunities at every turn during my ninja escort mission.
0:40.8	And of course, we'll close the show with our latest harvest of roses, thorns, and hula hoops.
0:46.0	I'm Eric Summer.
0:47.1	I'm Julie Ahern.
0:48.9	And I'm Tom Vassel, and it is convention season.
0:53.0	And so Dice Tower East, if you're listening to this, is happening tomorrow.
0:58.2	Yeah, like now.
0:59.5	Tomorrow, Eric.
1:00.6	It's Tuesday.
1:01.4	It starts Wednesday.
1:02.4	Sure.
1:03.0	People are arriving.
1:04.2	Anyway, if you still want to come, you can.
1:06.5	There's tickets at the door.
1:08.0	This would be an odd time for you to decide to come.
1:12.2	It would be. What do you want to do tomorrow? Let's drive to Orlando. Well, there was, there's one guy in my gang group who is
1:16.1	from Switzerland, and he, uh, spends half the year in Switzerland and half the year in, uh, Fort Myers.
1:24.1	And he's like, I canceled my trip so I can come to the con.
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