At The Table with The Dice Tower: The Games of Essen 2025
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Tom, Julie, and Eric run through their game plan for Essen Spiel 2025, including where they'll be, and what games are on the internet's radar, as well as trying to narrow down what three games are of the most interest to them personally.
00:59 - Bookkeeping: Dice Tower East, West, Cruise
01:57 - The Weather in Germany
03:12 - Eric's First Time Back Since 2019, What's Changed?
07:18 - Where Will We Be?
Dice Tower Booth: 3 R315
Van Ryder Booth: 2 E280
Live Show, Sunday 1:30pm: Hall 4
09:30 - Dice Tower Essentials Interlude: Aquatica Duel, On Stage, Raas
11:44 - Live Plays
13:47 - Warning from Julie
14:38 - Sunday's Live Show
16:35 - Eric's Growing Wishlist and Shipping Woes
22:20 - The Games of Essen - So Many
28:20 - Orloj
29:27 - Recall
30:07 - SETI: Space Agencies
30:32 - Feya's Swamp
31:51 - Nature
33:15 - Covenant
35:00 - Ada's Dream
35:43 - Sanctuary
37:16 - Coming of Age
38:55 - Castle Combo: Out of the Oubliette!
39:08 - Echoes of Time
40:52 - White Castle Duel
41:33 - The Voynich Puzzle
42:15 - Underwater Cities: Data Era and LOTR Duel: Allies
42:38 - Luthier
43:12 - Aquaria
44:14 - Julie: Use Up All Your Sick Days
45:32 - Eric: Severton
45:56 - Tom: Cereal Killer
46:52 - Julie: The Stalker
47:30 - Eric: Leylines
48:35 - Tom: Kronologic Cuzco 1450
50:22 - Julie: Parks and Potions
51:29 - Eric: Winnie the Pooh: Serious Detective
52:47 - Tom: A Carnivore Did It
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| 0:00.0 | At the Table with the Dice Tower. |
| 0:02.3 | Episode 57. |
| 0:04.3 | The Games of Essen Spiel, 2025. Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them. |
| 0:32.1 | Today we work through our game plan for Essen. |
| 0:35.3 | Where will we be? |
| 0:36.4 | What will we eat? |
| 0:37.5 | And where will we be in line to buy games? |
| 0:40.3 | I'm Eric Summer. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm Julie Ahern. |
| 0:42.8 | And I'm Tom Vassel, and I'm back. |
| 0:44.9 | Welcome to the show, folks. |
| 0:48.6 | And yes, we're talking... |
| 0:49.7 | Oh, you get out of the closet we locked you in. |
| 0:51.7 | That's good. |
| 0:52.9 | Oh, you got out. I gna locked you in. That's good. Oh, you got out. |
| 0:55.1 | I gnawed off my own arm. |
| 0:59.3 | Yeah, so folks, we're talking about the action spiel fair, but before we do that, a couple things, first of all. |
| 1:06.3 | I guess, is this our Halloween show? |
| 1:08.4 | It probably is. |
| 1:10.2 | It is our Halloween show. I guess, boo our Halloween show? Uh, it probably is. It is our Halloween show. |
| 1:11.9 | I guess boo. |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah. |
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