TDT # 452 - Power Creep

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2016

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In this show, we talk about Thunderbirds, Pied Piper, Northern Pacific, Millenium Blades, Knit-Wit, Monstrous, and Pecunia non olet. We have a pile of contributions, including both old and new! We end the show talking about power creep, and how it affects games.

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0:00.0	Hosting for the dice tower is generously provided by cool stuff ink.
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0:08.8	Thanks for your support.
0:10.3	The dice tower episode 452 power creep creep creep creep creep The Dice Tower, episode 452.
0:13.0	Power creep, creep, creep, creep. Welcome. Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and
0:38.8	especially the people who play them. On today's show we have a whole mess of contributions. We'll look at
0:45.4	tile laying games, give you the biography of Quirkle, play some card sharks, figure
0:50.5	out why you're cheating, try not to go too far when drawing people into the hobby, and more.
0:56.0	Plus we have tales of amazement, humor, and romance, and we look at power creep.
1:01.0	Which games are the biggest offenders offenders and which solve the problem
1:04.8	in novel waves.
1:05.8	I'm Eric Sommerer and here is your host, The Zordon to my Alpha Five, Tom Vassil.
1:12.2	Zordon and Alpha Five, they Vassil.
1:12.8	Zordon and Alpha Five, these sound like aliens from space invaders?
1:16.6	The mighty morphin power rangers, yes.
1:20.0	Alpha Five's a little robot who helps out the Power Rangers.
1:24.8	Why, why?
1:25.8	Message from Zordon.
1:27.1	But why do we have a Power Rangers reference?
1:30.1	Because it's power creep.
1:32.3	And I was thinking like those the putty things from Power Rangers they're
1:35.9	sort of creepy power go go Power Rangers I don't believe I've ever watched a whole episode of
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