Episode #129: Top 10 Turkeys
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2008
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Tom and Sam review 12 games, including Merlin's Company - an expansion to Shadows over Camelot. Moritz talks about popular culture and gaming, and Eric reviews Split! We discuss current news, and give a top ten list on "turkeys", games we like much less than when we first played them.
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower, episode 129, our top 10 turkeys. |
| 0:30.1 | The Dice Tower, a podcast about board games, card games, and the people who play them. |
| 0:36.2 | In this episode, we'll be discussing our top ten turkeys, games that have fallen in our opinions over time. |
| 0:40.3 | This episode of the Dice Tower is sponsored by Your Move Games, |
| 0:45.2 | makers of Battleground, fantasy warfare, the miniature war game without miniatures. |
| 0:49.5 | To learn more about Your Move Games or to take a flash demo of Battleground, |
| 0:53.2 | please visit www.orghumvugames.com. |
| 0:58.5 | And now, here are your hosts, the stars of this fall's remake of BJ and the Bear, |
| 1:01.0 | Tom Vassel and Sam Healy. |
| 1:02.7 | Oh, Joy. |
| 1:03.7 | Oh, my. |
| 1:04.5 | Who's the Bear? |
| 1:07.3 | Can I be BJ? |
| 1:08.5 | Sure. |
| 1:09.7 | I care not. But you know what? I wouldn't be surprised if a remake of that show actually came out. They seem to remake everything these days. They are. And sometimes it works well, like Battlestar Galactica. And other times, unmentionable shows and doesn't. I guess they're remake in 90210. Oh, yay. Sam and I are running out to watch that one. |
| 1:30.5 | Yes. I hope they make a board game of it. Already got it on my cue to be downloaded. |
| 1:35.9 | Well, welcome to the show. I'm Tom Vassel. And this is Sam Healy. And we're talking about all kinds of board and card games. |
| 1:43.5 | In case you've missed it over the past couple weeks, I've been trying out a new format, |
| 1:47.3 | doing some videos of my top 100 board games of all time, and I've started doing my reviews |
| 1:52.8 | in video. |
| 1:53.6 | It's actually kind of fun, and if I ever pick up a good video camera, maybe you'll see the Dice Tower |
| 1:58.8 | in video someday. |
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