Welcome to Dice Tower Musings, an audio blog about board games from the mind of Tom Vassal.

Tom is the husband of the beautiful Laura Vassal, a father of five girls, a missionary pastor in South Korea,

and a middle school math teacher.

Tom is also a passionate gamer

and manages to infuse gaming into many aspects of his life.

Join us now for some of aspects of his life.

Join us now for some of his and his family and friends thoughts on games.

All right, well, welcome to the show.

I'm really glad to have you all here with me today. This is the first of two, maybe three.

It depends on how much we get done today.

Basically, my review of origins. Now in the past, I've put a lot of what I thought about origins online as a written

list and I've also infused it into the regular dice tower but this time I thought I would try

to put it all into Musings. Now a couple things here that I'd like to say first off

is that I took my portable recorder with Me to Origins and I used it actually quite extensively on Wednesday and Thursday and then by the end of

Thursday I just didn't feel like carrying it around and using it anymore.

And so I apologize for that.

Also a lot of what I got was kind of garbled and just didn't come over as well as I wanted it to.

Now I do have an interview with Dr. Reiner Canizia and that will be at the end of this episode so you can listen to that and I try to clean up the sound as much as possible

But if you were with me in a game and you're looking forward to hearing that, maybe I'll have it cleaned up for the next episode, but you won't hear a lot of that into this episode.

But what we're talking about here is Origins 2008 and my thoughts on the entire convention.

Well, just like I would say in one of my reviews, I'll start out with my overall impressions

and that was I thought this was great.

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