TDT # 706 - Best of 2001 (20 Years Ago)

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Tom and Eric discuss Let's Make a Bus Route: The Dice Game, Bravo!, Santorini: New York, The Quest Kids, Andor, Catapult Kingdoms, and Spinboard Ghost Adventure. We have a tale of Boardgaming horror, and we answer questions from the mailbag. Then we finish off the show by looking back 20 years to our Top Ten Games from 2001.

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0:00.0	Support for the Dice Tower comes from listeners like you, and from The OPP, also known as USAopoli, and from GameNerds.com.
0:09.0	Thanks for your support.
0:11.0	The Dice Tower, Episode 706
0:14.0	The best of 20 years ago, 2001.
0:30.0	Welcome to The Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, and especially the people who play them.
0:43.0	On today's show, we have a tale of board gaming horror.
0:46.0	We answer questions from the mailbag about, among other things, what you would do if you found a super rare game at a tag sale,
0:54.0	and we head back a full 20 years to see how much our top 10 games from 2001 has changed.
1:02.0	I'm Eric Summer, and joining me now, the Dave to my Hal, Tom Vassel.
1:16.0	I've been practicing my computer voice because I'm prepping for a lit RPG novel.
1:23.0	And so I have to stay safe stuff like your burninate skill is now level five plus four dexterity
1:29.9	Okay, I just found out and well, let me hang on a second folks. I'm Tom Vassel. Oh, hi, I'm Eric Summer
1:36.3	We're here to talk about board games, but I want to talk about the thing Eric just mentioned
1:39.2	Okay, until like a year ago. I didn't know this was a category of writing. Yeah
1:44.8	Like this it's called lit RPG or game lit. Yeah, it's essentially what it is is the
1:52.5	The books are written and people are leveling up in the books and
1:58.5	Sometimes they're they're kind of subtle about it. Although I think that's like one and ten that I read that was even slightly subtle
2:06.3	Most of them are they knock you over the head with it
2:09.7	There might be some not some gentle knocking perhaps
2:14.0	Usually at some sort of you know alternate universe where people are entering a virtual reality world
2:20.2	Maybe to escape the post apocalyptic wasteland they live in and so their their world is governed by game rules and you get a lot of system messages
2:29.6	Yeah, I
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