TDT # 464 - Best Ancient Era Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2016

⏱️ 128 minutes

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NOTE: Due to some file transfer issues, this episode is a week late, AFTER Dice Tower Con. Sorry about that!

In this show, we take a look at

Guildhall Fantasy Trio, Burano, Ghost-Fightin’ Treasure Hunters, Fool’s Gold, Garbage Day, and Dead Last. A plethora of contributors join us, from law cases to DnD horror stories! We start a quick contest, answer a few quesions, and finally end the show with our top ten ancient era games!

Transcript

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0:08.8	Thanks for your support.
0:10.4	The Dice Tower episode episode 464.
0:13.0	Ancient Era games. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and especially the people who play them.
0:42.0	On today's show we have two perspectives on Dungeons and Dragons,
0:46.8	two reviews of some older designs,
0:49.2	and one biography of mice and mystics.
0:51.9	Also a tale of horror slash awkwardness,
0:55.0	some questions from the mailbag,
0:57.0	and our top 10 ancient era games.
1:00.0	I'm Eric Sommerer, and here's your host,
1:02.0	the man known as Conan the Board Game Librarian, Tom Vassal.
1:07.0	That's a, that almost sounds like that's already been done.
1:12.6	Well, it was a, it is a gag from UHF, but it didn't have board game in there.
1:17.4	Oh, that's right, UHF, Conan the librarian.
1:20.4	Yeah, I keep wanting to introduce my children to UHF, but I don't think they'd get any of the jokes because it's all these parodies of stuff they haven't seen, like, why is that guy running away from a giant rock? don't get it well it's Indiana Jones you
1:34.2	haven't seen that yet yeah I think your oldest might be old enough for
1:38.8	Indiana Jones at this point at least the first one second one's kind of actually I
1:42.0	think all of the Indies are going to be too terrifying for him.
1:46.2	He's pretty sensitive to mortal peril.
1:48.5	That's true, that's true, that's true, because they have those couple moments in them all.
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