Episode #5: Top Ten Thematic Games
The Dice Tower
Tom Vasel
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2007
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we announce the winner of our BattleLore contest and start a new contest for Starcraft: the Board Game! Then, we go back to episode 5 and listen to Tom and Joe discuss if it's ever right to deliberately lose a game, and what games are good for young children. Tom reviews Infinifield, Joe reviews Victoria Cross, and both give their top ten thematic games.
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| 0:00.0 | The Dice Tower episode 5, originally recorded fun and informative discussion of all types of |
| 0:24.8 | board and card games. |
| 0:25.8 | Yeah, okay, that's good enough. |
| 0:27.8 | Well, normally I would have a nice fancy intro recorded other than our standard one, but we had a little bit of uh... snafu this week. |
| 0:35.9 | Originally we were going to record episode 106 this week and then Sam and I just couldn't get |
| 0:42.1 | together just things got in |
| 0:43.2 | away and so what we're doing is we're posting our next archive show |
| 0:47.4 | episode five now next I know that that's two archive shows in a row and some of you like that but next week we'll post episode 106 and then the week after that we'll post episode 107 so you won't be missing anything any of the new material. We'll still have that on there. |
| 1:03.8 | However at the same time there's a couple things a couple announcements a couple |
| 1:07.5 | things I want to talk about first of all even though today is not episode 106 we're |
| 1:12.0 | still going to end this game contest. |
| 1:14.7 | It's only fair. |
| 1:16.0 | It's been a really interesting contest. |
| 1:18.1 | We had over 400 entries involved. |
| 1:21.2 | And the winner of this contest got all four expansion packs from Fantasy Flight Games for the game Battle |
| 1:28.2 | Loor, the Dwarven expansion pack, both of the Goblin Expansion Packs and 100 years were Expansion Pack. |
| 1:37.0 | And so, what we did is we took all the people who emailed us and to enter this contest |
| 1:42.1 | you would tell us which race you'd like to |
| 1:45.1 | see next. Currently there's goblins and there are dwarves. What would you like to see |
| 1:49.2 | other than that? I got all kinds of responses to this. Some people said elves, some people said |
| 1:54.6 | centaurs, undead, lizard men, minitars, eagles, giants, mercenaries, |
| 1:59.8 | amazons, fairies. And a lot of people said hey we don't really care about any new races |
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