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The Dice Tower episode 540 the best of 2003 50 The Best of 2, 2003, 15 years ago. 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, Jeff takes a look at the future. and especially the people who play them.

On today's show, Jeff takes a look at the future of balance.

We look forward to the conventions of 2018.

We answer some questions from the mailbag,

including wondering why we insist on calling Essen.

We present a Tales of Horror Showdown, and we finish up by going all the way back to 2003 with

our top 10 list.

I'm Eric Sommerer, here's your host the Captain Jack Sparrow of board gaming Tom Vassal

All right fine. Um, no one likes Captain Jack Sparrow though.

Yeah, well, he...

I mean the moviegoers like him, but in his timeline no one likes him.

But yes, he's not a well-liked character.

I'd rather be Will Turner,. Okay but fine. Sure. So it came

out 15 years ago like this is like if you're like what that movie's 15 years old. Yeah that's

a little crazy. Actually it's a little crazy. Actually, it's a little crazy just going through this.

So folks, each year we go back 5, 10, and 15 years ago.

We'll get back to craziness next week of other, I mean, next podcast of other top tens but we you know I like doing these

retrospectives I think they're good for the us and I think they're good to take a

look back because the Ice Towers often accused of being cult of the new. Right.

And it's good to take a look back and I've found some, you know, we get a lot of complaints about these

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