Episode #117: Top 10 Beautiful Artwork
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2008
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Tom and Sam talk about Pandemic, while Mary reviews Perry Rhodan and 10 Days in Asia. The guys discuss a lot of recent board game news, while Geoff issues a Cultipation challenge. Mark wants to add gambling to board gaming, Giles discusses atmosphere + gaming, and Moritz talks about an element of a boring game. Tom, Mark, and Paul discuss artists in games, and Tom gives the top ten beautiful boards, box covers, and card artwork in games.
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, episode 117, for real. |
| 0:05.0 | Our top 10 board game artists. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games, card games, and the people who play them. |
| 0:23.2 | In this episode, we'll be discussing the best game artists and their best-looking games. |
| 0:27.9 | This episode of the Dice Tower is sponsored by Your Move Games, makers of Battleground, fantasy warfare, the miniature war game without miniatures. |
| 0:36.7 | To learn more about Your Move Games or to take a flash |
| 0:39.4 | demo of Battleground, please visit www.orghumvigames.com. And now, here are your hosts, the Mattress |
| 0:46.8 | Kings of Western Pennsylvania, Tom Vassel, and Sam Healy. |
| 0:53.2 | All right, well, welcome to the show. This is Tom Vassel. And this is Sam Healy. And for the record, I've never been to Western Pennsylvania, okay? I'm from Eastern Pennsylvania, so what an insult. I don't know. All right. Well, you know what? I sent Eric to script, and I put there in parentheses, you know, and now introducing, then I put in parentheses, something stupid, Tom and Sam Healy. |
| 1:14.4 | So there you go. |
| 1:16.5 | What, are we married now? |
| 1:17.7 | Well, maybe there's something, oh, whatever, Tom Bassel and Sam Healy. |
| 1:22.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:22.9 | Hey, folks, we got a lot of stuff today in our show. We got, we got Jeff and we got Mike and did I say Mike, |
| 1:28.3 | I meant Mark, and all kinds of things going on. And we'll talk about some of the best artwork |
| 1:33.3 | that we've seen in games. So since we have so much, let's get started. And here's Mary with a |
| 1:38.5 | couple of reviews. Hello, gamers, Dysishi Kier with two game reviews Perry Rodan, D. Cosmic Hans, and Ten Days in Asia. |
| 1:47.8 | First of all, I'm going to just shorten the name of the game to Perry Rodan, because the rest of it's just too long to keep saying. |
| 1:54.3 | But this game is based on the very successful science fiction pulp series by K.H. Shear and Clark Darleton. |
| 2:02.2 | It has been published since 1961 in Germany. In August of 2007, they passed 2,400 installments. This game is part of the |
| 2:09.3 | Cosmos 2-player series. I really enjoy many of their two-player games. The boxes are very compact and |
| 2:15.0 | fit nicely together on the shelf. Because of their size, they also make great travel games. |
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