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.

Hello everyone this is Tom Vassal.

Welcome to the Days Tower Musings. This show is going to be a continuation of our last show in which we discuss origins 2008.

I really had a wonderful time and there really was just too much to get into two shows and so I thought I would just put the rest of it into this show and hope that you enjoy the coverage of the show even if you weren't there

hopefully you can learn a little bit about it but before I tell you about my thoughts on the show in general,

first I like you to hear thoughts

from my good friend Rick Thornquist I was at the origins game

convention a few weeks ago and had a great time playing games with a lot of people including Mr. Basel.

And Tom sent me a note and asked me if I could give him a report on the festivities.

So here we go.

A lot of people I think about already, I'm sure Tom's already talked about the

boardroom and the dealers hall and the real grandi birthday party with all the cake and ice cream

and other things from around the convention. So I'm just going to sort of skip over those and go right to the

games that I played, the new games and sort of give you my impressions of those.

So here we go.

First up is Wealth of Nations from Tablestar games.

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