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The Dice Tower

Episode #200: TotalCon and Favorite Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2011

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this episode - we talk about TotalCon, a board game convention in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Tom and Eric play some of each other's favorite games, and try out several new games - as well as play in and run tournaments. Come listen to our experiences!

Transcript

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the dice tower episode 200 total con Episode 200. Total Con. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people who play them.

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In this episode, we celebrate number 200 by traveling to Men's Field, Massachusetts.

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Tom plays my favorite game.

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I play one of Tom's favorites.

0:51.0

Plus, we hang out with a lot of great folks and play a lot of

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great games. Hear all about them. I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your host,

0:59.3

the intrepid explorer to my Sherpa, Tom Vassal.

1:04.0

Yes, that one I actually had a part of, I think.

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Yeah.

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The Sherpa comment comes because Tom has know wandering around the convention here.

1:13.0

We are at TotalCon 25 in Mansfield, Massachusetts and we're recording in our hotel room on Sunday morning.

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But everywhere we went Tom would turn to me and say,

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well, Eric, what are we doing next?

1:25.2

What time is this event?

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I was like your little assistant running around behind you

1:29.2

with my clipboard, which I actually have in front of us.

1:32.1

It was really a little bit too. It's more like a wedding planner. It's good to feel needed. That's all that's all I'm saying.

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Well usually I I have everything very meticulously organized. I have my own schedule and everything. I just was so busy this month. So that's my excuse. Okay.

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All right folks, this is the first time we've recorded live together ever.

1:52.0

You're a lot taller in person. I got a lot of people tell me that.

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