Episode #130: Top 10 Ways to Upgrade Games
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2008
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we add a new contributor - Charley Eastman, who manages to play Shogun with a three year old. Geoff talks about triangular numbers, Mark compares Gencon to Origins, and Stephen finds a couple more good old games. Sam and Tom review Thebes, answer some questions, and discuss some recently played games. Finally, we end the show with our top ten ways to upgrade games.
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| 0:00.0 | The top 10 ways to upgrade a game Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games, card games and the people who play them. |
| 0:31.0 | In this episode we'll be discussing how to upgrade your games, making the components bigger and better. |
| 0:37.0 | This episode of the Dice Tower is sponsored by Your Move Games, makers of Battleground Fantasy Warfare, the miniature war game without miniatures. |
| 0:46.0 | To learn more about your Move Games or to take a flash demo of Battleground, please visit |
| 0:50.5 | W.W. dot. dot your move games. |
| 0:53.0 | And now here are your hosts, the 2008 candidates for the cardboard party, |
| 0:59.0 | Tom Vassal, and Sam Healy. |
| 1:02.0 | I don't know, the cardboard party sounds like... |
| 1:04.0 | I don't know, is that a good name there? |
| 1:06.0 | We're sagi, we can get sagi easily, |
| 1:09.0 | destructible. |
| 1:10.0 | I don't know, what are the good qualities of cardboard. |
| 1:14.0 | Multiple uses? |
| 1:15.0 | I just don't know if that's necessarily the best name for a party. |
| 1:20.0 | Well I don't know it It's better than the Green Party. Oh, okay. See, now you just went all political? I did. Well, you're saying the name, I'm assuming? Well, anyway, the... I'm Tom Bassal. assuming well anyways uh... the |
| 1:33.0 | i'm tom bassal by the way and just am just to the name |
| 1:38.2 | i i i made no political remarks please please |
| 1:41.4 | stay away from me people |
| 1:44.0 | Eric see what you have done you start up political stuff in our in our podcast again and we just we're trying to get |
| 1:49.2 | rid of that I don't want to be the president but we can can say vote. His job is too hard. All right. Well, anyway, I'm |
| 1:57.0 | Tom Vassal and... This is Sam Healy. And you're listening to the Dice Tower. You can find us on the web and other places. I'm currently putting up a video |
| 2:04.5 | series of my top 100 board games and putting out reviews of several games. So go check those out |
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