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The Dice Tower, episode 281.

Merry Christmas!

Well, not yet, but welcome to the 2012 holiday gift guide. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and hard games, but especially the people who play them.

In this episode we check in with the crew with snakes and lattes in Toronto, and we discuss

our holiday gift guide for 2012.

This episode is sponsored by Ruse, a brand new Victorian Steam Punk card game raising funds

on Kickstarter until November 16th.

And Teton Con, the Ultimate Gaming Vacation, June 9th through the 15th, 2013.

Reserve your slot at Teton Con.com. I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your host the Donner to my

Blitzen. It's Tom Vassal. Wasn't Donner kind of a jerk or is he the father of

Rudolph? You know I think you're right I think Donner is the father of Rudolph? You know I think you're right I think

Donna is the father of Rudolph so that's good that's good right but he was kind of

jerked to his son yeah but he eventually saw the light I think that's like

you. Oh wow wow All right well you know what? Yeah, okay folks this may be the

first time you've ever listened to the dice tower and we're glad you're here if it is. This is a unique

episode of the dice tower. We're not going to do our normal things. We often have contributors

from all over the world giving us different segments on board games we have one that we'll

shove one in no problem but we do have contributors who are contributing to this but

this is a specific one we wanted to give you a gift guide to games in case you were shopping for Christmas

this year 2012. So one of the things that we wanted to do here was we wanted to

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