The Dice Tower, episode 190.

Great games, lousy packaging.

Welcome. 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 Summerer, and here's your host,

the fact page to my fantasy flight rulebook.

It's Tom Vassel.

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 the internet,

you know, five or six years ago was when Fantasy Flight would publish a game, people 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 the conclusion that the games that they have their facts and such, it's just part of the package because you can't have that much theme and 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. Well, anyway, folks, if you're just tuning in for the first time, I'm Tom Vassel. And I'm Eric Summerer. Hello. And we're talking about board games and card

games in this show, although it does seem like a long time since we've done a show. I missed you.

It's only actually been three weeks. I'm glad Eric stepped in and did some classic episodes,

although I was a little disappointed because the one episode that he did, 25, I really had so many comments about that episode. That was almost, well, that was like a turning point for our show. Yeah. We added in new music. We had a very good discussion on Memoir 44. Yes. It was just something, you know, it was the Dice Tower changed after that point.

Not as much as it changed when Moritz came on board, but we'll talk about that later.

But anyway, if you have not heard folks, and I apologize that I have been out of the picture for a while, Secret Santa is going on, and thanks to Robert Searing for picking that up, but I've been out of the deal because my wife, my son is apparently very, very impatient. So he decided to come two months early. This was a complete surprise off the wall. My wife went to a baby shower, came home from the baby shower. It wasn't her baby shower, someone else's. Came home and said, you know, my water just broke. And I said, well, you know, what does that mean? Is that the way she said it? She was just, you know, no, no, it was a bit more dramatic than that. So she went to the hospital and then the doctor said she would have to be in the hospital for a month. And I thought, oh, boy, you know, here I am going to take care of six kids by myself for a month. But her mom has come in from China to help. Not many people can say that sort of thing. No. Then she had the baby a couple days later, which was very exciting. First vassal boy in, well, who knows when. First boy in my my family but then the next day the doctors

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