Episode #215: Should you force your kids to game?

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Leisure, Games

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2011

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Geoff talks about fuzzy logic, and Eric talks once more about dice. We spend time going over Origins, talking about the events and the future of the convention. Finally, we discuss the question - should you force your kids to game?

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0:00.0	Hosting for the Dice Tower is generously provided by Fun Again Games, the world's best game source, online at funagin.com.
0:08.0	Thanks for your support.
0:09.6	The Dice Tower, episode 2.15.
0:12.4	Force-feeding games to your family. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially the people
0:39.4	who play them.
0:41.1	In this episode, Eric Herman previews some upcoming dice games.
0:45.7	Jeff gets fuzzy in his logic, and several members of the team look back at Origins 2011.
0:52.9	Plus, we start a new contest, discuss the Spieldes-Yaris winners, and think about how often we make our kids play games.
1:01.4	I'm Eric Summerer, and here's your host, The Kirk to My Spock.
1:05.7	It's Tom Vassel.
1:08.0	I guess. I've always liked McCoy.
1:10.4	Yeah, I hemmed and hawed between calling myself McCoy or Spock, but I think I'm more of the calm, reasonable person on the show.
1:19.5	Well, you're the one that goes quick to action, very emotional. You're always ranting and raving about things.
1:25.1	This game is terrible.
1:28.4	I was picturing you more as more one of the red shirts. Oh. But, yeah, all the co-hosts just have red shirts in your mind. I'm actually wearing a red shirt today. That's all right. Well, here we go. Fortuitous. First thing we need to do is we need to clear up some confusion. You may be wondering, folks, why this is not actually being aired two weeks after the last podcast. Instead, it's probably... It's actually going to be like just a couple days, I think, at this point. So, it's Eric's fault. Yeah, sure. Blame the co-house. No, I was supposed to get it out the night before I went to Origins. And then I got to Origins. I was like, oh, I didn't get that podcast out. All right. As soon as I get back from Origins, first thing. And then I went on another vacation to Orlando. And, yeah. Yeah. Okay. But the episode is out now, even though we wish someone an early birthday after their birthday.
2:18.9	So, yeah.
2:20.1	Sorry, happy birthday again.
2:24.0	Well.
2:25.6	We're back on track. We're back on track.
2:28.0	Yeah, well.
2:28.6	This is why we shouldn't take vacations.
2:30.7	We planned on like a little bit of a break and the break happened in a weird way.
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