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The Dice Tower

TDT - Episode # 337 - 2014 Gaming Resolutions

The Dice Tower

Tom Vasel

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

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2014

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

It's 2014 - huzzah! In this show, Eric and Tom take a look at King & Assassin, Viva Topo, Baba Yaga, Race for the Galaxy: Alien Artifacts, and Among the Stars: Ambassadors. Greg visits an interesting gaming store in New York, Brian compares Merchants of Venus with Firefly, Geoff seems to forget something, Mark reviews Loka, Tish talks more about gaming groups, and Bill examines conventions as social events. We also discuss how to run a Wits and Wagers gaming event, a tale of true horror, and our gaming resolutions for 2014. Oh yeah, and we kick off our Kickstarter for 2014!

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Thanks for your support

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the dice tower episode 337.

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Our New Year's Gaming Resolutions. Oh, Welcome to the Dice Tower, a podcast about board games and card games, but especially

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the people who play them.

0:42.6

In this episode, Brian Pitts Merchant of Venus against Firefly.

0:47.0

We try to remember Jeff, and Greg has a bad experience in New York City. Plus I have some praise for a store in Washington, D.C.

0:56.0

Tom and I share some tips for running a Witz and Wagers event at a convention,

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and we announce our gaming resolutions for 2014.

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I'm Eric Sommerer and here's your host

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the Grand Marshal of the 2014 tournament of Meeples Parade

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Tom Vassal.

1:11.6

Um, can this be like a Mummers Meeples Parade?

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Well, I don't know.

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What sort of floats would you like to see in a tournament of Meeples Parade?

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Well, let's see, there would be the Meeples. That would be like a very colorful rainbow of colors.

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There would be a dinosaur one, you know, just because...

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Right. And all of the floats need to be covered in gaming paraphernalia. You have to, you know, cover it with wooden cubes or perhaps those jewel glass beads things.

1:41.0

All of the surfaces on the floats need to be covered by gaming material.

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You've really put some thought into this? I have. I was watching the Tournament of Roses

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parade with with my kids on New Year's Day. So, you know, it's on the brain.

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This is I'm finding this is one of the negative things about having a house with no

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