The Dice Tower, Episode 187.

Our top 10, two-player games.

Welcome. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them.

This time, Ryan tells us something else he's learned from gaming.

We head into the vault to examine a Michael Schacht classic.

We answer your questions from the mailbag.

And of course, we run through our top ten games for two players.

I'm Eric Summerer, and here to announce his new fragrance,

Cardboard for Men.

Here's Tom Vassel.

All right, I think you've been getting these intros from the catalog of a store at this point When you have to play the game

Oh, it's that!

Or when the game has to play you

Look at your gaming partner, now look at me

Your gaming partner.

Sadly, they're not...

Here's that game that you want.

All right, we've been playing lots of games lately. Man, have I been just tearing through piles of new games? But I am so glad that I am half the time. One of the games that I played that has been the big to do around was Castle Ravenloft. Okay. And would you know that most of the guys in my gaming group absolutely despise it? Really? And they told me, they said, oh, it's no good. You know, it's, oh, we didn't like it. And I thought, oh, I hope I like it. You know, because it looks so cool. And you know what? I did. But here's the key. I didn't play it as a dungeon crawler. I played it as a cooperative game. And that makes all the difference in the world because it's just a cooperative game. And it's fun. I mean, there's dungeon crawlingness to it. But you're working together to fight all these monsters. And I also played it with kids and with teenagers and with people who just wanted to have fun. And it was a blast. Everybody liked it, except for my gaming group who I didn't play it with. Because they were looking for dissent or some dungeon crawl, and this really isn't that. You don't really level up much. You don't get new weapons. You don't get new stuff. You're just fighting off the monsters until you survive the end of the dungeon. And all different monsters show up and different weird things happen until you fight one big batty.

But great miniatures, a really cool customization system for heroes.

I really liked it.

Castle Ravenlaw.

Cool.

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