TDT # 454 - Retheming Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2016

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In this show, we talk about Avalanche on Yeti Mountain, Mad Libs: The Game, Tigris and Euphrates, Conquest Stratego, Apotheca, Time Stories: Prophecy of Dragons, Thunder and Lightning. We also hear from a variety of contributors, incluing Game Tech, History of Board Games, and more! After a few tales, we finish up the show with thoughts on the retheming of games.

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0:00.0	Hosting for the dice tower is generously provided by cool stuff ink.
0:05.0	Cool stuff in stock at cool stuff ink.com
0:09.0	thanks for your support.
0:11.0	The dice tower episode four five four pros and cons The Dice Tower, episode 454.
0:14.0	Proes and cons of retheming. The Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and
0:38.9	especially the people who play them. On today's show we explore the biography of
0:44.0	survive. Try our hand at causing an inciting incident. Look at the
0:49.0	welcoming power of party games and more. Plus a trio of new tales,
0:54.4	one of which leads to us trying to use games
0:56.5	as a sort of personality test.
0:58.8	And we come together to discuss the pros and cons
1:01.4	of retheming a game. I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your host, The Small World to my Vinci. Tom Vassal.
1:09.0	That's right, baby. I've just made you obsolete. No one will ever play you again.
1:17.0	Many people consider me mechanically, a very strong contender.
1:21.0	I feel like there's three people who think that. You're right there
1:24.7	aren't that many people I've I picked a terrible example. I don't know I
1:28.2	Jason. Jason Levine insists that Vinci is better than Small World.
1:34.8	Yeah.
1:35.8	He's wrong.
1:36.8	I can see maybe enjoying it more.
1:41.8	Maybe you don't like the whole fantasy thing.
1:44.0	Okay, I guess that no, no. No, he's wrong.
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