At The Table with The Dice Tower - Where You Least Expect

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Tom sits at the small table. Eric's parents make friends on a cruise. Julie travels the country spreading boardgames wherever she goes. We also talk about what surprises await in those little pockets of games in places where you don't expect to find them. We delve into the mailbag for some pertinent questions, and we gather a new crop of Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:50 - School Has Started, Dice Tower West, Cruise

02:40 - Eric's Parents on Alaskan Cruise

03:19 - Spiel Plans (Booth 3R315)

05:02 - Game Shelves in Unusual Spots

20:43 - Question: Playing With Bob

29:30 - Question: Storing Games While At College

34:30 - Tag Team

36:52 - Journey to Tir na nOg

41:50 - Cat Sudoku: Summer Festival

44:18 - The Four Doors

47:22 - Regicide Legacy

52:43 - Tenby

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0:00.0	At the Table with the Dice Tower.
0:01.9	Episode 54.
0:03.4	Where you least expect.
0:28.4	Welcome to At the Table with the Dice Tower, a podcast about games and the people who play them.
0:34.7	This time we're talking about finding game shelves in unlikely locations. Hubs, rec centers,
0:39.9	abandoned cabins in the woods. Game collections can be anywhere and contain many surprises.
0:44.5	Plus, we have some new questions from the mailbag and our latest gathering of roses,
0:46.2	thorns, and hula hoops.
0:47.4	I'm Eric Summerer.
0:48.7	I'm Julie Arhearn.
0:50.3	And I'm Tom Vassel. And it is still summer.
0:53.5	Yes.
0:55.1	Technically, technically, from a technical, technical perspective, yes.
0:58.6	Well, it's also school has started for most people, and that just changes everyone's lives.
1:04.5	Traffic patterns change.
1:06.4	Oh, the school buses are everywhere.
1:08.1	Schedules change. People like Eric who work from home aren't affected as much.
1:12.4	Well, it is.
1:13.1	It got very quiet all of a sudden. When the kids were left and went out of the house, suddenly my wife and I look at each other and go, oh, it's quiet for like an hour before we have to start work. This is great. So, yeah, it changes here, too. This is a gradual thing for me because every two years, my house gets quieter in general with a kid going off of college.
1:32.1	I'm down to three kids now.
1:35.0	Wait, didn't you have four last week?
1:36.9	Yeah, well, she went to college a couple days ago.
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