Episode #4: Top Ten from the Other Side
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2007
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, originally aired May 25, 2005 - Tom and Joe answer a myriad of listener questions, discussing various classic abstracts, using games in church, and why war games are so long. Tom rants about playtesting, and they both talk about the games that give them the most stress. Atlantic Storm and Mr. Bigshot are reviewed, and they both discuss "Turkeys and Kangaroo" games. Finally, they end the game with their top ten games from the other side: Tom with war games, and Joe with Eurogames.
This show was sponsored by Gorilla Games.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dice Tower, episode number four. This show originally recorded May 25, 2005 is part of our classic series in which we look back at older episodes of the |
| 0:24.0 | dice tower with better sound quality and comments. This week's episode of the |
| 0:28.1 | dice tower is brought to you by Gorilla Games, publishers of Battlestations, |
| 0:32.0 | the Game of Heroic Starship Adventure, and Jeff Siodex Lifeboat, |
| 0:36.4 | the Card Game of Survival at sea. |
| 0:38.6 | For more information, go to W.W. |
| 0:40.4 | Battlestations. info. And now here's your host, Tom Vassil. |
| 0:45.0 | All right folks, welcome to the show. |
| 0:48.0 | We're glad to have you long this week, especially after the really bad audio quality in the last 10 minutes of last week. |
| 0:55.0 | My apologies about that. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm not sure exactly what went wrong, but by the time I realized what had happened it was too late. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, this week we're going to be listening to episode 4. |
| 1:07.0 | And episode 4 was the first time that we finally kept the name Dice Tower, |
| 1:12.0 | and we still were very unsure of our format for the show at this |
| 1:17.4 | point and you can tell that because this is quite possibly the longest question |
| 1:21.3 | session that we've ever had in any show. |
| 1:24.0 | And this continued for a little while. |
| 1:25.9 | The questions were interesting and they let us go off in different types of topics, but really, |
| 1:31.1 | you know, we needed some more structured format and so as the show went by, we eventually |
| 1:36.1 | grew into a format that was very structured and that's where we are today and we still have |
| 1:41.9 | our banter back and forth forth but I don't really |
| 1:44.2 | want to have 45 minutes worth of questions in every show. However people did send us |
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