TDT # 480 - Video Gamers and Board Games

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2016

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In this show, we talk about Great Western Trail, Adrenaline, Islebound, Power Grid: The Card Game, Chromosome, and Terraforming Mars. We also hear the history of Acquire, talk about our Essen 2016 experiences, and end with our top ten games to use to entice video gamers into the hobby. Again.

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0:00.0	Hosting for the dice tower is generously provided by cool stuff ink.
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0:09.0	Thanks for your support.
0:11.0	The dice tower episode 480.
0:14.1	Video games.
0:15.1	Wait what?
0:15.7	Well, kind of. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games and especially the people who play them. On today's show we have and Plus we we recap our adventures in Essen, we share a tale of amazement,
0:55.0	and after some confusion,
0:57.0	we all take a look at our top 10 games to get a video
1:00.0	gamer into board gaming.
1:01.0	I'm Eric Sommerer, and's your host the master chief of board
1:06.0	gaming Tom Vassal.
1:08.0	Hey folks future Tom here I'm interrupting the show because I want to really talk to you about the Jack
1:15.2	Vass Memorial Fund auction which is going on right now over at Boardgame Geek.
1:20.9	You can find a link to it from our website dice tower.com, but the Jack Mass Memorial Fund is a charity
1:27.3	organization that was started by myself. My son was born prematurely and died six years ago and the gaming community was extremely
1:39.0	helpful in my time of need and so I started this fund as a way to help others in their time of
1:44.8	extreme need and there are when people have something in the gaming community
1:48.9	have a tragic event happen to them that's beyond their control. We have this fund set up so that we can
1:55.3	help them and you can go find a skeek list at the bottom of it there are
1:58.1	testimonials from people that we have helped. We are an official charity
2:02.1	we and this auction is one that people put up all sorts of
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