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

This episode, number 30, is part of our classic series, and originally aired December 21st, 2005.

This time, Tom and Joe take a break from the normal routine, discussing their top 10 games

from 2005. Rick Thornquist, Ted Cheatham, Gary Christensen, Greg Schlausser, Walt O'Hara,

and David Seton share their top games of the year as well.

This episode is sponsored by Gorilla Games, makers of world conquerors,

the new fast-paced game of global conquest, available for pre-order now at kickstarter.com.

And now, here's your host, Tom Vassel. Well, howdy, folks, it's good to be with you again here, listening to these six-year-old podcasts or five-year-old, I don't know, old, it seems, a long time ago. Episode 30, though, is a big deal for the Dice Tower podcast, because this was episode and I said I want to make this special

we're at the end of the year what can we do to make this podcast cool and I thought bringing in

other people onto the podcast this was something that I had toyed with you know a bit and some people

had said in audio contributions and we still got to the point where we had new segments.

That's coming.

But this was something where I brought new people in.

Now, this actually changed a lot of the way I did things, and I learned a lot of lessons.

One, you've got to rein in contributors.

I know it sounds bad, but you have to make sure that they stay on a certain topic, a certain time limit.

And some people are just more interesting than others.

I mean, some people are probably listening to this right now saying, you're not one of them.

But I mean, I understand that some people just, when you put them in front of a microphone,

they're not that interesting.

Some people have to read everything.

They have a hard time talking in front of the microphone.

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