At The Table with The Dice Tower - To Go Order
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This time, Julie has some news, Tom's excited for Summer, and Eric wants to play games on vacation. We discuss the various games that live in our bags, just in case there's a chance to play them. Plus, we have a new Tale of Boardgaming Horror, and a heaping helping of Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.
00:50 - Spring and The Christmas of Boardgames
01:51 - Dice Tower East and Library Changes
03:04 - Cruise is Live
03:42 - A Mythical Game Bag
05:09 - Julie's Big News
06:45 - Traveling With Games - Game Bags
09:02 - Wandering Merchants at Gen Con
10:15 - Stashing Games In Non-Gaming Bags
13:51 - Why Button Shy?
16:11 - Making Play Seamless
17:16 - Trying to Make Friends on Trips
19:20 - Footprint/Table Space
21:42 - Any Lost Games, Rules, Boxes?
22:25 - Eric Is Quivering Wrong
24:15 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror?
34:22 - Bare Bones
39:00 - Coming of Age
45:20 - Jewel Box
47:55 - Sanibel
51:07 - For Northwood!
44:49 - Rising Cultures
Questions? Tales of Horror? tom@dicetower.com
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| 0:00.0 | At the table with the dice tower. |
| 0:01.9 | Episode 69. |
| 0:04.0 | To go order. 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, we look at what games are hiding in our bags, always ready at a moment's notice. |
| 0:35.4 | Who says there won't be time for a 10-minute |
| 0:37.5 | filler during your nephew's wedding cocktail reception? Plus a tale of horror and we |
| 0:42.5 | venture into a new batch of roses, thorns, and hula hoops. I'm Eric Summerer. I'm |
| 0:47.6 | Julie Ahern. And I'm Tom Vassel and welcome to the show everybody. Welcome to |
| 0:53.1 | spring. Spring. I think literally we everybody. Welcome to spring. |
| 0:55.3 | Spring. |
| 0:56.3 | I think literally we can say it's spring now. |
| 0:58.7 | I know you've been saying that for a few weeks now, but I think, yeah, for real. |
| 1:02.4 | Isn't there supposed to be snow this weekend in Massachusetts and Maine? |
| 1:07.4 | Maybe a little north of you. |
| 1:09.1 | Actually, we did get sleet yesterday morning, so I guess I can't be completely covered. It's mostly spring. That is absolutely a New England spring. I'm going to. Oh, yeah, yeah. A little bit of sleet. It's not spring without a little bit of sleet. Sleep is all the terrible stuff about snow without the beauty. No, that's freezing rain. Freezing rain is not pretty. |
| 1:27.6 | I guess when it coats the trees and they glitter like they're made of glass before they fall over. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah, they're... |
| 1:32.5 | Yes, and you're like, wow, that's beautiful as you're falling. |
| 1:35.9 | Yes. |
| 1:36.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.2 | But hey, spring is here in the board game world anyway. |
| 1:41.3 | We are gearing up for the summer because the summer is the Christmas |
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