TDT # 384 - Classic Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

Tower, Catan, Boardgame, Game, Board, Leisure, Dice, Card, Games, Vasel, Summerer

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2014

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

We start this show with a Tale of Amazement, although there is Horror to be found also! We also talk about Mysterium, Dead Man’s Draw, Evolution, Planes, Sentinels board game, St. Petersberg, Super Rhino, and Nexus Ops. Finally, we end the show talking about whether modern games have completely replaced "classic" games for us.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hosting for the dice tower is generously provided by cool stuff ink
0:04.4	cool stuff in stock at cool stuff ink dot com. Thanks for your support
0:10.7	the dice tower episode three eighty four the classics The Classics. Hello and
0:35.0	welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and car games and especially the people who play them.
0:41.0	In this episode, Jeff wonders how to run a tournament for semi-co-op games.
0:46.0	Brian defends the monolith with some translucent bugs,
0:50.0	and we all talk about some classic games that still hit the table.
0:53.7	Plus, we premiere our tales of amazement
0:56.8	and include a tale of board gaming horror
0:59.3	just to balance out the karma.
1:01.4	I'm Eric Sommerer, and here your host the Popomatic to my trouble
1:05.4	Tom Vassal. Man the Popomatic is a great thing. Sure. You know it's great.
1:10.7	You bet boss. So why does no one stick it in games today?
1:15.3	Why doesn't like Memoir 44 come with the Memoir 44 Popimatic?
1:19.0	Hmm. Or what other games have dice that you roll quite a bit during the game?
1:25.1	Galaxy Trucker, a Popimatic.
1:27.2	Popimatic Galaxy Trucker.
1:29.2	I'm just saying they could put the Popimatic in different games and I would use it.
1:32.3	It'd be awesome.
1:33.0	Well I mean you could always buy a copy of trouble and just you know
1:36.2	hack saw the popimatic thing out and you could use it for whatever you want.
1:39.8	I'm really happy to get the lid of the box back on let alone try to use a
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