TDT # 407 - Replacing Our Favorite Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2015

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this show, we talk about The Boardgame Geek Card Game, Trifecta, Duck Duck Go, Tigris & Euphrates, String Safari, Telepathy, and Dimension. Our contributors talk about cheating, Ra, Top Promoter, Forbidden Island, and Game State. We have a tale of Horror and a new Tale of Treachery! We talk about copying board game design elements from other games, and finish the show discussing what it would take for a game to replace our current favorite game.

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0:00.0	Hosting for the dice tower is generously provided by cool stuff ink
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0:10.3	the dice tower episode four oh seven replacing your face The Dice Tower, Episode 407.
0:13.7	Replacing your favorite game.
0:16.4	Oh! Oh, Hello and welcome to the Dice Tower a podcast about board games and
0:41.2	especially the people who play them.
0:43.0	In this episode, Jeff looks at the game state.
0:46.0	Both Tom and Brian look at some Reiner Canizia classics
0:50.0	and our lonely gamer tells us when it's okay to cheat.
0:54.0	Plus, a new musical contest, a message in the mailbag asks why there's so much copying in board gaming.
1:01.0	We have tales of horror and betrayal, and we discuss what it would take to replace
1:06.3	our favorite games.
1:08.2	I'm Eric Sommerer, and here's your host, The Dick York to my Dick Sergeant, Tom Vassal. That doesn't really make sense. Well we're talking
1:16.0	about replacements. Oh, Eric is always ahead of the curve in these things.
1:20.6	Yeah, yeah. you have to...
1:24.0	But it doesn't make sense that you replaced me.
1:28.0	Oh, wait, what?
1:30.0	I'm...
1:31.0	Moving on, I'm Eric Somerer, how are you?
1:32.7	We did this gag two years ago.
1:34.5	We tend to.
1:36.1	It's a circular gag.
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