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Tom Vasel takes a look at the news for the week, joined by a host of friends.
Show Notes:
0:20 – Intro
1:06 – Board Game News
3:06 – Kickstarter News with Boardgame Brawl
5:52 – Q & A with Tom and Jason
9:14 – Snakes and Lattes
11:29 – Dice Dice Baby
15:10 – Dice Tower Productions
16:18 – Head in the Clouds with Chaz Marler
19:12 – Top 100 Expansions of all time: # 86 – # 90
23:44 – Discriminating Gamer
25:20 – Suzanne – Board Game Apps
27:29 – Tom Thinks
33:14 – Whitlepedia
35:31 – Closing Thoughts
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I reveal the reason why the Machi Koro Harbor expansion comes in such a
wonderfully oversized box; this week on my “Head In The Clouds” segment on
The Dice Tower’s Board Game Breakfast show.
Ugggghh splattering milk over your table. Dousing components in milk is bad
enough, but that felt. All of the cringe.
I’m almost sold on the greek coins you showed… I just wish I could get
all gold ones with the same printing as the silver ones (with the owl)
I’m really determined to pimp out my Cyclades game.
Chaz’s commentary was easily my favorite segment this week. His take on
the packaging of some games was perfectly highlighted when he held up the
Pathfinder expansion deck. I guess we should be thankful that the over
sized box wasn’t contained in a plastic blister pack. That might have
pushed him over the edge.
Tom Vassel, i started watching this episode at the bus stop at 11pm, at
11:05pm, i got mugged by 2 guys with knives, they took my wallet (dropped
it when running from the cops) and they took my phone, after giving
statements and looking at mugshots at the police station, i finally got
home at 4:00am, and first thing i did was open my laptop and continue
watching the show, made me smile and laugh, so thanks for ending my night
on a high note,
cheers!
The Middle east coins would be great with Tokaido 🙂
Can you put the website for these?
By the way we just finished the *Montreal Joue*(2 weeks of boardgames and
video games fun everywhere in montreal) Library, Restaurants, bars, coffee
shops, Stores and even parcs. Can’t wait for next year 🙂
In today’s The Discriminating Gamer segment, Evil Cody gets a present, and
the lines between fantasy and reality become blurred.
Really enjoyed the show this week. Chaz was brilliant. Whitley was
insightful. Discriminating Gamer gets a reality check. Overall, terrific
show.
Can someone identify the metal coin Kickstarter Tom previewed? Is it just
called “Legendary Metal Coins”?
The Discriminating Gamer segment was hilarious!
My gf’d actually like a Star Trek Next Generation Love Letter…
So Chad… where to buy :P?
Russet Taupe, did you select the red and orange planes in Airlines Europe?
Whitley’s segments are consistently awesome. Today was no exception.
TDG does it again! Oh, Evil Cody, what a rascal!
Cody’s part is awesome
OH MY GOD! MY heart almost burst into tears when they announced the Space
Dandy deck-building game. I wasn’t expecting it, and holy craaaaaaap it’s
my favorite show to date ;-; Right along side Cowboy Bebop and Samurai
Champloo- it’s like an anime Futurama. So unexpected.
Chaz, your segment was the funniest part of my week so far, which is
impressive because I re-watched Tom’s review of Oneupsmanship just for
laughs this morning.
Great show all round. Whitleypedia was very cool. Loved the venn diagram
and based on my experience, very accurate.
With Machi Koro it’s even worse than that. The entire expansion fits in
the base game box. Read as, throw the expansion box away. Looks like MANY
expansions will fit.
“atrocities of WWII Love Letter” Oh Chaz, I’m dying here…
“Play long and prosper.” I like it :D
Interesting coins on display. Regarding what the arabic coins at 13:00
say….
The one on the right says (as best as I could see): laailaaha illallah
Muhammad rasoolullah (There’s none worthy of worship except Allah, and
Muhammad is his messenger), which actually was written on many coins long
ago, even some non-Arab coins. The middle coin has Muhammad repeated all
the way around, can’t see what’s in the middle. Lastly the one on the left
has the word Iqra (read or recite) written all the way round.
I swear you’re pouring that milk from a greater height each time
Sometimes I sell older games that will never hit the table again if I see
that they still have value. I use eBay (I know they take 9-12% if you
combine it with PayPal-at this point it’s gouging if you ask me-anyway I
digress) to sell items. IMO an accurate way to see the value of something
is to see what people are actually paying for it. I don’t look at what
people are selling an item for. I search completed auctions and filter it
so it only shows sold items and then list it showing highest price first.
Then if I want to sell something I use that as a good starting point. Of
course it doesn’t work if you have something so rare that no-one has sold
one in awhile. But it works well for me.
I love the idea of pimping a game with metal coins, and those look pretty
great. One thing that bugs me are the pirate coins. No pirate has handled a
coin with a skull and cross bones or Kraken on it. It feels tacky, like a
kid’s pirate party toy, rather than something which would enhance the
flavour of Merchants and Marauders or other pirate games. And it’s odd,
because they did a great job of making the greek coins realistic.
Susanne could you put the stats before the explanation please? It would be
easier to watch if I wasn’t wondering the whole time if I will be able to
get in on android or kindle. I like the segment but if its only on ios its
not really worth watching for people that only have android devices
During the top 100 expansion sequence, there’s a Monopoly game on the far
left (bright blue box). What flavor of Monopoly is that?
“strategerize” lmao @28:20
I totally enjoy the reviews and discussions of games as a hobby more so
than the hobby in and of itself, which I also enjoy, but I’m saying I get
what you’re saying.
Splattering that beautiful Geek Chic table with milk… You monster!
Hello guys,
The “Legendary Metal Coins” campaign Tom reviewed in “Dice Dice Baby”
segment is now live!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/drawlab/legendary-metal-coins-for-gaming
I hope you like our new campaign :)
+PairOfDice Paradise Space Balls the Love Letter! :-)
Great work as always. Funny segment from pair of dice paradise :)
Chaz continues to knock it out of the park.
Chaz section is really becoming a highpoint here… when it comes to a
delicate mixture of wit and creativity… awesome…
And this means sthg as this show is getting better every time! Thanks
everyone at the Dicetower!
Chaz is the man!
I really appreciate the Machi Koro expansion box, cause it replaces the
base game box to hold everything, taking up less shelf space.
Congrats to all- this was really fun to watch. Game On and Thank You!
I feel your pain Tom for the jury duty work. I had to do it a few years
ago and I hope I’m not called back anytime soon.
I am awaiting Tom’s Top 10 Duel of Ages 2 characters! (and it’s coming..)
Star Trek: The Next Generation Love Letter Make it so! Edition
Chaz that was hilarious!
Already backed Burgle Bros and got Paperback as a bonus. Can’t wait for it
to come out.
Was this the week you were going to announce the winner of the D&D
DiceMasters contest?
I would certainly buy Spaceballs Love Letter
Who gives this a thumbs down??? jeez…
Chaz was amazing, Suzanne and everyone was great as always. Another great
show!
The card game is probably the least ridiculous thing about Space Dandy.
Chaz was icredible this week. Really funny and oh so true.
What is the value of a collectable game? There is only one true answer:
the amount you are able to get someone to *pay* for it.