TDT # 401 - Prototypes

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2015

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Hey, we're back! In this show, we talk about Council of Verona, Firefly Blue Sun, Star Wars: The Queen’s Gambit, Viticulture + Tuscany, the Bruges expansion, Quilt Show, and Balderdash. Eric ruins someone's convention, we talk about legal recourse against Kickstarter, and are joined by a host of contributors. Finally, we end the show with our thoughts on playing people's game prototypes.

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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.
0:08.9	Thanks for your support the dice, episode 401.
0:14.0	Prototypes, good or bad. Well, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and especially the people who play them.
0:41.0	In this episode Jeff takes the lead. Brian tests out some mass market war games
0:46.5	and Bill tries to escape from the room. Plus a tale of horror with a familiar villain. some good advice for aspiring designers, and a group discussion
0:55.9	on the value of prototypes.
0:58.2	I'm Eric Sommerer, and here's your host, The Roth IRA of Board Gaming, Tom Vassal.
1:04.0	Hey folks, that's me, here to help you in your time of oldness.
1:09.0	I just have Roth IRA swimming around in my head after doing taxes.
1:15.0	Oh yes, yes, yes, but we're done with taxes.
1:20.0	Hooray! We should be, I think. I think the dice hour made a profit this year which was unbelievable
1:27.1	Congratulations but that with that comes all the fun of the IRS but that was taken care of and we move on. Now that they have their chunk of my soul.
1:40.0	The joys of quarterly estimated taxes are in your future.
1:44.0	You know, it was interesting though, I went to the H&R Block because doing your own taxes for small businesses rather daunting.
1:54.3	Yeah, you're telling me.
1:56.7	And so anyhow, it was like empty and I said, I went April 1st, that's when I went in the guy
2:02.3	said, I said, you know know why aren't you like packed he said that there's
2:05.6	not as big of a rad much mad rushister used to be in years gone by hmm
2:11.6	people seem to do them way earlier now? Well I guess if you're getting a
2:15.6	a refund you want to do it as quickly as possible right? Sure. Because you're
2:21.4	broke after Christmas. Right. Because you're broke after Christmas.
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