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

In this episode, I'm on vacation.

But there are tons of games to get excited about at this year's Essen Fair, so it's time to bring in some local backup.

I'm Eric Sommerer, and here are your hosts, The Itchy and Scratchy of Board Gaming,

Tom Vassal and Z Garcia. Hey everybody, I'm Tom Vassal, and Z Garcia.

Hey everybody, I'm Tom Vassal.

I'm Z Garcia. How you doing, folks?

Hey, Z is here.

What is this all about?

What's going on?

I have usurped the Sommerer.

That's what happens when you go on vacation, Eric.

Eric actually went to Essen early, well not to Essen,

but traveling in Europe with his wife, he's making us a vacation.

Actually, I think you're making us kind of a vacation too, aren't you?

A little bit, I'm going a little bit earlier and I'm leaving a little bit after the convention,

so I am taking a couple of days to just sort of look around

Berlin which is where I'll be staying before and after the Essen.

So now you're going to get emails from people in Berlin who want to hang out with you.

That's okay.

I'm just, I'm flying in on the day Essen starts and leaving the day after it ends.

Just getting in there for the whole period we've made very few

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