TDT # 736 - Dice Tower Retreat Orlando

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Tom and Eric are joined at the Dice Tower Retreat Orlando by Stephen Buonocore to talk about all sorts of assorted topics, including but not limited to these games: Bitoku, Rummikub, Foundations of Rome, That's Life, Magical Athlete, The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, Cascadia, Transformers: The Deckbuilding Game, Vagrantsong, Preorders and Nostalgia (Heroquest, Risk: Shadow Forces, Return to Dark Tower), Picture Perfect, and Empyrial: Spells and Steam.

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0:00.0	Support for the Dice Tower comes from listeners like you and from the op, also known as USAopoly and from Game Nerds.com
0:09.6	Thanks for your support. The Dice Tower episode 736 live from Dice Tower, Retreat Orlando
0:30.0	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, Tom and I are at the Dice Tower Retreat in Orlando.
0:46.0	And we sit down in person for a meandering discussion of the library, the venue, the people, and the games that tie them all together.
0:54.0	Oh, yes, and a certain pod father of gaming, Mr. Stephen Bonacore, crashes the party as well.
1:00.0	I'm Eric Summerer, and here's your host, the Mickey to my goofy, Tom Vassel.
1:05.0	You know, I forget sometimes that Disney is in Orlando.
1:08.0	How can you possibly forget that? I mean, because we're just surrounded by board games and not even looking at that?
1:14.0	No, there's just so much other stuff, and I usually veer from the Disney stuff, because it's so expensive.
1:20.0	But there's, you know, the Universal Studios, and I just went to a place called Deezer Land.
1:25.0	Deezer Land? Well, I think the guy's name was Deezer, his last name was Deezer.
1:30.0	So it has a huge car museum, there's a pinball area, an arcade, indoor go cards,
1:40.0	interment, golf, and rocket fizz. This is a store, I found one down here.
1:46.0	So this is the soda store that we often go to in Unionapolis, and there's one down here.
1:50.0	Of course, there's one down here. It's very exciting. Anyway, so no, I always look for the cheaper options than Disney.
1:55.0	Okay, well, I did go to the Disney room. I was here a couple days early to do some Disney stuff.
2:00.0	I thought I maybe just ride a couple rides, have a sedate visit, but I decided to go with someone who was a maniac,
2:06.0	and we needed to do everything as fast as possible and stay until closing every single night.
2:11.0	So I'm a little sleepy. I'm feeling great. Good. So folks, if you haven't figured this out for now,
2:18.0	we're recording live from Tystar Retreat in Orlando. So this is going to be a different show for many reasons.
2:25.0	There's no top 10. No, there's no Q&A. Well, unless somebody comes over and asks a question,
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