TDT - Episode # 305 - Strategy Guides

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2013

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In this show, Tom and Eric talk about Eclipse for the iOS, the Second Summoners, Space Dice, Diplomacy by web, Quartifacts and more! Tom talks about a possible new game design, Geoff about Buddha's List of Games, Giles about Game Authors, and Jude about Gamification levels. All this, plust the news, a tale of horror, our Origins plans and more! We finally end the show talking about whether or not we use strategy guides for games.

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0:00.0	Hosting for the dice tower is generously provided by cool stuff ink cool stuff in stock at cool stuff ink dot com
0:09.0	Thanks for your support the dice tower episode three oh five strategy guy The Dice Tower, Episode 305.
0:14.0	Strategy guides, play your games better. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and
0:45.0	jiels want the people who play them.
0:44.0	In this episode, Jeff wonders what games Buddha might play.
0:48.0	Jude explores the concept of gamification
0:51.0	and Giles wants some respect for game authors.
0:54.7	Plus an overprotective tale of board gaming horror.
0:58.7	We give some advice on teaching rules and visiting origins for the first time and we weigh the pros and cons of reading strategy articles.
1:07.0	I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your host, the Ganon to my link. It's Tom Vassal now wait a minute see you usually do buddy things this isn't a buddy thing maybe it maybe they are no
1:19.8	maybe secretly they they really like hanging out with each other.
1:24.0	I secretly want to know why Link doesn't suddenly real, you know, a couple, you know, he should get mad after a while,
1:29.0	as in one, the series isn't named after him.
1:32.0	And two, it's easy. One, the series isn't named after him.
1:33.0	And two, it seems like he's always chasing the same guy no matter what time period it's in.
1:38.5	It's like a fruitless endeavor.
1:40.0	Yeah, they're just stuck in this weird time loop, generation after generation.
1:45.0	What's the best one, Eric?
1:47.0	Oh, I'll link to the past, for sure.
1:50.0	Which one is that? I don't know by the name. That's the Super Nintendo one.
1:53.2	Ah, I agree. Although to be fair, I haven't played past
1:56.8	the first Wii one. Okay. Yeah, I haven't played many of the more recent ones either, but I really like the link to the past is just a great
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