Eric Summerer

At The Table with The Dice Tower - Better Than The Original

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

At The Table with The Dice Tower - Better Than The Original

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Tom, Julie, and Eric discuss the results of the Origins Awards, and share the nominees for The Dice Tower Awards' Game of the Year. Julie tells us about her trip to Origins (and Tom pines for ice cream), and we ponder the dos and don'ts of upgrading your boardgame pieces. Then, we finish the show with our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:17 - Gen Con Plans (Booth 331)

02:29 - Origins Awards and Dice Tower Nominees

11:46 - Julie at the Origins Game Fair

29:33 - Upgrading Pieces

48:50 - Captain Flip

50:28 - Cities

54:02 - Arraial

58:17 - This Game is Killer

1:00:58 - Pandemic Hot Zone: North America

1:03:18 - The Fog: Escape from Paradise

At The Table with The Dice Tower - I Pick Things Up I Put Them Down

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At The Table with The Dice Tower - I Pick Things Up I Put Them Down

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Tom and Eric congratulate Julie on her successful move, which leads to a discussion on keeping your collection to a reasonable size (so you don't have to move as much). We run through the nominees for the Spiel des Jahres (Germany's Game of the Year awards), answer some questions from the mailbag, and share our recent Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:53 - School Schedules

02:17 - Con Schedules - Gen Con Booth 331

04:46 - Julie's Move: Transport Logistics and Culling Strategy

21:47 - Spiel des Jahres

31:46 - The Dice Tower Awards Show

33:08 - Mailbag: Game unplayed the longest?

38:26 - Mailbag: Unplayed favorites?

42:40 - Ticket to Ride Legacy

47:15 - Fish & Katz

49:20 - Super Kawaii Pets

51:08 - Shobu

54:14 - Windmill Valley

57:06 - Invincible: The Hero-Building Game

At The Table with The Dice Tower - Places Please

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At The Table with The Dice Tower - Places Please

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This time, Tom recounts his trip to BGG Spring, and Eric reviews the Dungeons and Dragons show in New York City. We act out a new Tale of Boardgaming Horror, attempt to help answer a listener question, and close the show with our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:47 - Summer Events

05:26 - Dice Tower District

06:09 - Tom at BGG Spring

13:22 - Eric at Dungeons and Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern

18:23 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

26:53 - Listener Question: Unexpected Children

41:40 - Agueda

44:00 - The Almost Gone

47:18 - Dumb Ways to Die

50:31 - License to Grill

55:15 - Endangered Rescue: Galapagos Penguins

At The Table with The Dice Tower - In The Year Two Thousand... Four

Anonymous — Tue, 28 May 2024 23:34:00 +0000

At The Table with The Dice Tower - In The Year Two Thousand... Four

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Tom, Julie and Eric run through some of their plans for Dice Tower East and Gen Con later this summer before taking a look at the year that was 2004, which was inexplicably 20 years ago. We share a new Tale of Boardgaming Horror, answer a question from the mailbag, and round up our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:48 - Events at Dice Tower East

03:04 - Gen Con Plans

05:36 - Looking back at 2004 - 20 Years Ago

21:23 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

28:52 - Listener Question: Digital Game Implementations

36:27 - Splendor

39:51 - Bus & Stop

42:44 - Clash of Galiformes

46:48 - BOG

50:02 - The Morrison Game Factory

SummererTime - Real Time Co Ops: Quicksand, Ted Lasso, and NOOBS in Space

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SummererTime - Real Time Co Ops: Quicksand, Ted Lasso, and NOOBS in Space

Eric Summerer takes a look at three real-time cooperative games:

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Ted Lasso Party Game
NOOBS in Space

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At The Table with The Dice Tower - Queen of Tokyo

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Tom and Eric quiz Julie about her recent trip to the Tokyo Game Market, including some of the games she brought home, before moving on to a Tale of Boardgaming Horror and our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:49 - Dice Tower East and Large Dexterity Games

02:27 - The World Series of Boardgaming

03:49 - The Universe Explained with a Cookie

04:42 - Julie at the Tokyo Game Market

30:48 - Acorns

32:38 - Shiki no Tabi

34:06 - Space Macho

37:25 - Do You Need To Go?

38:57 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

43:18 - An Age Contrived

47:45 - Kinfire Delve

51:30 - Onitama

54:45 - Pickleball Blast!

59:17 - Slay the Spire

At The Table with The Dice Tower - Back to Back

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At The Table with The Dice Tower - Back to Back

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Tom, Julie and Eric begin by recapping their recent travels, including Julie's trip to The Gathering of Friends and Eric's family trip to Washington DC and Philadelphia. Tom recalls the recent 36-hour marathon on the video chanel, which leads us into tips for playing several games in a row. We have a pretty darn horrific Tale of Boardgaming Horror, and finish the show with our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:43 - Playing Games All The Time?

02:40 - Jack Vasel Memorial Fund Auction (link below)

04:11 - Julie at The Gathering of Friends

14:32 - Eric in DC and Philly

16:23 - Marathons, Cons, and Playing Lots of Games in a Row

39:07 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

46:04 - El Burro (La Granja)

51:20 - Kohaku

53:48 - Cubitos: Fowl Play

55:45 - Expressions

57:51 - Agemonia

1:01:42 - Spinball

Link to the Jack Vasel Memorial Fund Auction (Ends May 12th, 2024):

https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/333009/the-jack-vasel-memorial-fund-auction-2024-through

At The Table with The Dice Tower - Bargain Basement

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At The Table with The Dice Tower - Bargain Basement

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This time, Tom, Julie, and Eric discuss the pitfalls of April Fools gags before highlighting the highs and lows of bargain hunting. We confront a listener-submitted dilemma from the mailbag, and we share some Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:45 - Cruise Hype and an Unexpected Musical Rant

02:21 - April Fools Annoyance

12:12 - Bargain Hunting

29:25 - Question: Avoid the Game or the Person?

36:05 - Spark Riders 3000

42:36 - Primal: The Awakening

45:56 - Blueprints

48:30 - Cryptid Cafe

50:49 - Eppi

57:36 - Flashback: Zombie Kids

At The Table with The Dice Tower - This Is Seventeen

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At The Table with The Dice Tower - This Is Seventeen

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Tom, Julie, and Eric revisit last episode's question about auction games by looking at their favorite auction mechanisms, and look forward to Julie's and Eric's events at Dice Tower East. We share a new Tale of Boardgaming Horror, and run through our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

01:23 - Staying Up Late and Dice Tower West

03:29 - Looking Forward to Dice Tower East

07:00 - 36-Hour Marathon

08:07 - Auction Mechanisms

33:32 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

37:52 - Xylotar

41:17 - The 7th Citadel

49:39 - Cleocatra

53:40 - Expressions

57:25 - Hissy Fit

59:53 - My Parents Might Be Martians

At The Table with The Dice Tower - Vegas Baby!

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000

At The Table with The Dice Tower - Vegas Baby!

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This time, we are LIVE at Dice Tower West 2024 in Las Vegas in front of a convention audience to discuss our Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops, pit three games in a Vegas-themed Showdown, share a Tale of Boardgaming Horror, and take questions from the audience.

01:04 - News for Dice Tower West 2025

03:17 - Games Tom Taught

04:26 - Eric Plays Wyrmspan

05:52 - What's Julie Been Doing?

07:33 - Way Too Many Cats

11:38 - Shipwrights of the North Sea: Redux

13:45 - Paris: La Cité de la Lumière

17:27 - Mr. Jack

19:54 - Challengers: Beach Cup

22:47 - Video Game Champion

29:36 - Showdown Intro

30:27 - Vegas Showdown

31:19 - Lords of Vegas

33:52 - Vabanque

36:22 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

41:12 - What is our favorite Stonemaier Game?

41:58 - Where does Tom keep his hats?

42:39 - What are our favorite Auction Games?

44:23 - What was our favorite non-gaming Vegas experience?

47:41 - What game surprised us after having low expectations?

50:24 - Do we implement house rules/post-release fixes?

54:54 - What is a good travel-sized deck-building game?

57:28 - What are our spouses' favorite games?