The Dice Tower, episode 190.

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

In this episode, Moritz examines Game Design Workshop. Jeff sees

games everywhere he looks and some new voices tell you what to do when your kid

throws a tantrum during a game.

Plus, we talk about some recent game news and list some games we love, but some game boxes we hate.

I'm Eric Sommerer, and's your host the fact page to my fantasy flight rulebook.

It's Tom Vassal.

Okay, now you're just playing with stereotypes.

It's only a stereotype if it's untrue.

Well, you know, the thing is,

one of the things that I used to get really riled up on on the internet,

you know, five or six years ago was when

fantasy fight would publish a game, people would get on and talk about how terrible the

rules were, they couldn't publish a good game to save their lives.

Now they're one of the major giants of the

industry and there's still people complain about the rules but I've come to

conclusion at the games that they have their facts and such. It's just part of

the package because you can't have that much theme in

chrome in a game without having, you know, and being able to cover every little

single niggly detail.

Yeah, you just come to expect it.

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