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The Dice Tower is an Internet podcast about tabletop games. Your hosts for the show are Tom Vasel, noted game reviewer, industry veteran Julie Ahern, and voice actor and reviewer Eric Summerer. 

In the show, Tom, Julie, and Eric talk about boardgames, card games, wargames, miniatures, and the people who play them.

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At The Table with The Dice Tower - Re-Role

Dec 2, 2025

This time, we continue our discussion of RPGs by suggesting Role Playing Games that share popular boardgaming mechanisms, as well as giving Tom tips for getting a game started. Plus, we have a new Tale of Boardgaming Horror, and we close the show with some Roses, Thorns, and Hula Hoops.

00:50 - A Story About Mail

02:22 - Eric at PAX Unplugged (inc. Hot Streak)

06:50 - Gift Guides, Dice Tower West and East

08:02 - RPGs for Boardgame Fans (detailed notes below)

37:55 - Tale of Boardgaming Horror

43:03 - Formaggio

48:35 - Gnomic Parliament

52:13 - Carnuta

54:49 - Magic Number 11

56:54 - Insurrect10n

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Julie's Notes

Where to go to get core book pdfs?

DriveThruRPG https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/ 

Itch.io https://itch.io/ 

Cooperative play (yes the overwhelming majority of TTRPGs are cooperative) some extra cooperative leaning 

Dice rolling - Also many many many ttrpgs use dice. Here are some examples

 

Area control

Faction/War

 

Action points - 

Level Up

  • D&D

  • PbtA 

Using Action points

 

Deck builder/Bidding

Ok not really but Redigo is "Hand Management"  https://letsplayredigo.com/ 

Games using a standard deck of cards

Games using a custom or proprietary card deck - mostly they are being used instead of dice

My Closest Pick

 

Pick up and Deliver

Solo/journal:

One shot

 

Worker Placement?

Become a GM

Questions? Tales of Horror? tom@dicetower.com