At The Table with The Dice Tower - All Ashore!

26:25Andrew's flight was canceled on the way to the airport. I thought I was getting on a plane until about five minutes before I wasn't. And turned out they were missing a flight attendant that I thought was just across the airport and would be here in 15 minutes. But no, they were missing one to be assigned to the flight in the computer system, which was not going to go well. So that got canceled. I got pushed to Wednesday. So stayed an extra couple days, which meant we got to take a road trip to Dice Tower HQ. And we just sort of broke into a normal workday at the Dice Tower and got to see how the sausage is made.

27:01And it made it was. And got to hang out and play some extra games and just generally check everybody out. I should have probably put you in a video when you were here. I didn't even think of that. We were really busy. I did get into an all-play promotional video. Chris snagged me and did a nice little bit about voiceovers. So, yeah, I got put to work a little bit. But we did have a game night that night, and I got sucked up in a game, which I'll talk about later. I did hear you guys, like, screaming at the table next to me, Aaron. What was the party game you were playing? That was – I think that's an all-play upcoming.

27:41It is called Jibber Jabble. Jibber jabber. Jibber, the jabble, I believe, is the second word, which makes it fun to look for on Board Game Geek. It is, you're trying to spell out clues for the one guesser in the room. And so you've been given a category and a particular word, and you're trying to give clues for that specific word. Kind of like just one, except you are spelling the word letter by letter as you go around the table with absolutely no discussion amongst the team that is trying to spell the word. So what happens is somebody, you know, is trying to spell balloon, and they say, B, and then the next person doesn't know that that's what the first person thinks they're doing, and they go, oh, and then everybody panics as they try and figure out what the second person now thinks they're spelling.

28:33And it involved a lot of screaming from Jason, who was coming up with what he thought were amazing clues that no one wanted to go along with, and then he started yelling at the people who didn't spell things properly. It was a lot of yelling. It was. At some point, the entire room is just staring at us. I'm like, okay, guys, calm down, please. Anyway, it just sounded like it was fun. Anyway, then they went home, and Eric got in a plane, and life went back to normal, except for the fact that that jerk Punxsutawney Phil. I could have told you he was going to go for six more weeks of winter. I was like, that was the least surprising result ever.

29:17Yeah, we know, Phil. We know. Get back in the hole. Oh, wow. Hey, if you're feeling cold, folks, come to Dice Tower West. It will hopefully be warm by then. I hope so. I just hope my flight goes well. That's all. I just remember last – well, so last year – I believe we're flying this year. Last year we drove the truck and there was the snowstorm in the Rockies over Colorado. Oh, boy. But not, we're not going to think about that. Not this year. No. I will say one thing. My one contribution is thank you to the Drakes for sending me all the lovely footage of the karaoke that took place. Oh, yes. So there was a, this is where there was a donation request list, right?

30:02If you sing certain songs at karaoke, we will donate money to the Jack Fassel Memorial Fund. Yes. and money was raised. But also, I have footage. So blackmail fodder? No. Maybe. No. Anyway, it was a good time from what I could tell. Nobody was hurt. Money was raised. And it was the one moment that I felt like I was in the loop. You're participating. I was participating. Pulling strings from afar, perhaps. Maybe. All righty. Well, that's enough about the cruise. Let's jump to a question. Questions. Questions. Questions. Questions. All right. So we have a listener question saying there have been many times that they've hosted get-togethers with friends.

31:01And at some point, everyone decides they want to play a game, hopefully. Yeah. We usually, they usually play a party game, sometimes later strategy games. They take the game out, set it up, take time to teach it. And their problem is while they're playing the game, people stop and are social and they break off into conversation and everybody's having a fun time. But they are sitting there waiting for the next person to take their turn. and they don't want to be a killjoy and stop people from talking and enjoying themselves but they're not sure what to do because they want to keep the game on the rails so what are our thoughts on a situation like this what would you do you're having too much fun stop it yeah this is a tricky situation though right because you're in that situation where you everyone's having a good time and you kind of don't want it but at the same time it's like can we focus a bit this is this is this a hard call.

31:59So I'll pass it off to the two people wiser than me. At the top they're saying get together, not game now. So if it's a get together, you gotta let people get together as they will. You gotta be a little looser, I think, with the rules. I get it too, because if somebody is running the game, you're the one that's probably taught it and told everybody the rules and you're trying to keep it moving, there is some sort of responsibility there where you need to keep it together. Otherwise, it will just fall apart. If you're going to get to the end of the game, somebody's going to have to steer this ship.

32:35Right. I guess for you, the point is getting to the end of the game. For everybody there, the point is to have a good time. So letting go of a lot of hubris when I'm at a family gathering of – sometimes games fall off the rails. Now, I have over the years cultivated nieces and nephews to be gamers like myself who won't allow that. And I don't have to be the one doing that, the timekeeper and the let's move it along people because they are. And that is so my advice is play the long game. Teach the young ones. That's my advice. No, that's good. I like it. I think if you are you're talking about this specific instance, you are in this situation.

33:19you're playing, I don't know, say just one and everybody's laughing about the last round and then they get to talking about a story about some of the words that they used and how that relates to a family trip everybody took and memories start flying back and forth. Everybody's having fun. You don't want to stop that. You almost need to recruit someone else in the out group, not you who's trying to get the game on the rails, but maybe make eye contact with the niece or nephew across the table and sort of wait for them to notice that you're patiently waiting to continue the game and then maybe recruit one of them.

33:53Like, obviously, the gamer in the room is going to want to keep the game going, nerd. But if you get somebody else in the group that has been laughing and joking to say, okay, everybody, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Julie really wants to keep this game going. So let's, round two, that you need to recruit someone else. You need an assistant in the room. Also, maybe, so you're saying lighter strategy games, maybe lighter strategy for, It depends on the group. Like if you know it's a group that's going to devolve into just chatting and catching up and stuff, you play something like Ido where each question, you can end the game at the end of the question.

34:28Yeah, you can just stop. You don't have to play until you've all failed. In fact, sometimes when you fail the round, that's what perpetuates. No, no, we got to go until we win. And it perpetuates the game. so also choosing the game you play if if this is a large crowd who's not really wanting to even if it's a lighter strategy game and and at the end of each round it could just that could be the end of the game maybe that's just the way to go yeah yeah yeah all right let me modify this question a bit here yeah what if it is so i think this is an easy question to answer when we say everyone's kind of just chilling having a good time and sure just go with the group or get your your uh trained nieces and nephews to handle it um but what if it is one person who is not they're not being bad or anything but they're just very social and they're talking and they're the ones like having a great time they're not in any rush to play the game they're getting up and eating and moving around and talking and it's their turn they're like oh yeah and they come sit back down how do you deal with that person who again is not i'm going to be clear i don't feel like they're being deliberately jerky or bad they're just more interested in socializing than right playing the game uh it depends again that depends on the game if it's still a light strategy game there's still only a finite amount of time before the game is over uh i've had because and so if i'm in a social setting regardless i tend to or i yeah teacher julie comes out a little bit where you preemptively say, okay, so your turn's coming up.

36:06Yeah, you're next. You're next. And I, yeah, I've done that before. And try to make it as light as possible. And not, and not judgy. But to help them along, to get, you know, so we're not there for seven minutes before. Oh, wait, whose turn is it? It's yours. It's still yours. So there's that. but if it's a it depends on the game because if it was something and i have had that where uh playing a longer substantially longer game where somebody was wants wanted to play it just was somebody who could not sit still and focusing was a challenge and so they were doing a bunch of other things in their kitchen and so kept waiting kept waiting And I didn't say anything during the game.

36:57I did say something afterwards where I'm like, hi, you are lovely. I enjoy you tremendously. I cannot play a game with you that is longer than 45 minutes because you struggle with the focusing and I am somebody who doesn't handle that well. So it's not a good fit for us to play something longer than that. I want to continue playing games with you. Please make sure from now on they are, you know, a 30-minute game. That would be delightful. And I was just very straightforward and they were mortified. I was like, don't, I'm not saying this to make you feel bad. I'm saying this so that I don't get frustrated and then impassive aggressive going forward.

37:33And I just was very direct about it because they were a lovely person and I do enjoy their company. They just, you know, things like ADHD are very real and, you know, you do what you can. Yeah, I think game choice is a big factor here. It's hard when you're already in the situation. Like, we've decided to pull out Ticket to Ride, and you've got a player who's just not really engaging with the game and is, you know, wandering off, and it gets to their turn, and they're not doing anything. If this was a lighter party game, there might be a way that you could just run the round without them. Like, if everybody else is waiting, and you could just, you know, especially if it's a team-based something, they're just out for this round.

38:14That's fine. We'll figure out how to play Catchphrase without that particular team member for a round. And that's an easy way to, if you're picking the right game, one that can be dropped in and out of easily, that's if you know this is going to happen. It's hard when you're in it, though. Yeah. All righty. Well, let's talk about some games. We should. Yeah.

38:38They say that every rose has its thorn. But not every rose has a hula hoop. Julie, what's a game that you played recently and loved slash possibly didn't love? because i don't know uh so i played like i was with my parents for the past week so i will say i played a lot of trick-taking games card games yeah my mother has joined the bridge club in her community and is getting very competitive uh and so we we spent a lot of time talking about bridge reading books about bridge strategies um i it's not for everyone but it certainly was really fun to see uh some taking it to a competitive level how many people were very interested in her neighborhood community to play it so that is i don't know if that's necessarily like to say i haven't played a ton of board games because i was i was there and that's that's where their interests lie however before that uh i played chisogi anime studio tycoon and that was a hula hoop because so it is a game that is published in japan now we've talked about you know a couple years ago we talked about when going to tokyo game fair and one of the things the takeaway that I think I mostly find is that most of the games there are tiny little pocket cute games that are, you know, mostly abstract movement, very light.

40:15This is not. So it was a hula hoop, because this is a worker placement. I had to dig down and think hard strategy wise kind of game. Loved it. But you are a struggling anime studio. And you have four rounds, each round being a year, and you start, you've taken money, you've loaned money, maybe it's from the bank, maybe Aunt Jean left you a small allotment because she believes she thinks you're a good kid. I you have, you're behind, you owe people money from the start, and you are trying to have a feature film come out every year. So you start with four Dead Inside staff cards. That's literally what they're called.

41:12Yes, yes, they've been. I do love that. The writer, the artist, the producer, and the director. You have six studio action tokens. So you can increase your staff by two over the course of the time, but that's the maximum. And then you have your resources. So what you're trying to do on your turn, like there's three phases. There's production, which is the main one. And in that, you're placing your workers on the various locations. Now, most of them can only go to one or two spaces. So, you know, your artist is going to go to the animate or, you know, area where they are creating art or doing layout.

42:01You can send the manager to any one place, but you're mostly at the start, probably going to want to start them at hire or upgrade, where you will spend money to hire more staff or to, I guess, give professional development and therapy to your dead inside workers so that then they become genki or energetic. And each of those cards have special abilities and are giving you extra benefits. Hey, future Eric here. You know, I correct Tom's pronunciation all the time and I think it's only fair that I jump in. And also my college Japanese instructor would really not be happy with me if I didn't jump in and say it's genki.

42:40Genki desu ka for energetic. You know, okay, are you good? Genki is the Japanese word. Sorry, Julie. So each of the locations you have to choose. So there's, and as they fill up, if somebody else has already placed a character there, you might, a worker there, you will probably still be able to, but it's going to cost you extra money because now you're trying to break into a market that's already been used. Then you have your movie release. So part of the thing that you're also trying to do while you're doing that is you're trying to get a beginning, middle, and end of your script. And they can be different.

43:22The different colors denote different types of themes. So it could be romantic. It could be action thriller. It could be horror. And they have different ones, and they will score differently. So if what is hot right now is out, and each year one falls off and the next one slides in, So you're trying to hopefully get one of the thematically what is hot and new, hot new games type of thing so that when you fill out your little puzzle pieces of beginning, middle and end of script, they have the themes that are just really in and trending right now. The other ways that you can get points at the end of round, if you put out a release so you get the popularity, you can get rewards based on your reputation and money.

44:12um you can also level up and get merchandising and if you have merchandising then you get more income and like i said money is tight because if not because you have to pay your staff um at the end of each round and um dead inside staff costs one coin the gen key staff costs two um and if you can't you have to take on more debt and of course the more debt you have the less points of your end game scoring points you lose points for those as well at the end of the game so So it was unexpected, completely unexpected playing it. Had a great time. Definitely rewards itself playing it more than once.

44:51That first time you're like, wait, what? Honestly, and I had fun, but I just, I was like, I, it was more moving part. And again, partially because I wasn't anticipating it. But the second time around, it really solidifies. And I was having a great time playing. The art is beautiful. The characters are hilarious. Their abilities are very reflective of whatever style they're trying to go for. And that part was fantastic, too. So for being a work replacement, the theme was all across the board. And anybody who's run a small business, it translates across not just anime. Just so you know. So that was my primary game that I wanted to talk about.

45:37As a side note, it is currently, you can go back to us on Kickstarter right now. We're not being paid to promote this or anything. Just Julie mentioned it, and it's on Kickstarter. So if you want the reprint of it, go for it. So that's Chisogi Anime Studio Tycoon. It's for one to four players, and it plays in one to two hours. It's a fun one. And this, at least the original edition, has maybe the prettiest cards I've ever seen. So nice, I'm afraid to shuffle them. They're that nice. Yep, it's true. What about you, Eric? Well, I mentioned one of my games already. It was one of the most checked out.

46:12I think we said number three on the list. That is Eternal Dex. It took me a while to get a hold of the copy because it was being checked out so often. I started hearing rumblings of this one and people saying, yeah, I enjoyed it. I didn't. And it started sounding like one I really wanted to play. I knew nothing about this game until getting on the cruise, made a point of finding someone who had gotten it off the shelf and said, hey, can I join with you? I'd love to try this game. Eternal Decks is a cooperative game about hand management. You have a deck that starts out with just a color and the numbers one through five.

46:53You're going to be playing these cards to rows on this player mat. really nice like a fabric mat that that's the player board that's kind of different and new and you're trying to fill up these rows one of the rows you have to build from low to high values one is high to low and the other one just follows a general rule that you always have to do where you can't play the same color or the same number that just got played in that row so you're taking turns playing cards but the trick is that when you play a card you will never see that card again It's gone, so you're going to run out of cards real fast.

47:30The way you get more cards is by filling up those rows. When you do so, you get to unlock one of three Eternals at the end of that row, which come with a whole bunch of new cards. Whoever put the last card on that row gets those new cards. Cool, they get shuffled up, and that's now your new deck. However, by waking up this Eternal, you now have a restriction that comes into play. Maybe you can't play fours anymore. Maybe you can't play sixes or you can't play certain colors. That's a problem because people have those cards in their hands. They want to be able to play them. So you have to play certain combinations of cards by discarding them to the river over there to block off, appease those Eternals and make that rule no longer apply.

48:16You also have to do your timing right because I may be flush with cards now because I completed a row, But Julie is still sitting there with two cards and giving us looks like, come on, guys, I only have two cards. I need help. You can help by instead of help instead of playing a card, you can three times during the game pass a card and just give something to someone that, you know, this will be perfect for you. There's also communication. You're not allowed to say specifically, I have these cards or I am wanting to play over here. But you do have two little, very much like magic maze, two little markers that you can just put down on places on the board and be like, this, don't play there because I have a perfect card for that.

48:58Or please help me because all I have is this over here. I can only play over here, but I need to play over there. So I'm in trouble. and you attempt to complete goals, appease a certain number of Eternals, complete certain rows multiple times, and the more rows you complete, you now have removed one stack of cards from the end of that row, so now you have to put five cards in the row instead of four, and then six cards in the row instead of five. It ramps up as you get more resources and abilities, and then there's multiple missions in the box. As soon as I played this, I immediately went and pre-ordered a copy from their next print run.

49:38Eternal Decks was a rose. It sounded like one I would love, and I absolutely did. Oh, good. Then there was a game called Ham Helsing. Ham Helsing is a game from Fireside Games, the folks that made Castle Panic. It's based on a children's series of books. Cooperative. You play a character and you are, you know, fighting baddies, demons, monsters, that sort of thing. You can be Ham, the pig vampire hunter. And you can be the dog, I think, is one of the characters. Anyway, you're given a character. It is a deck building, deck crafting game. You start out with a basic deck that has symbols on the cards, a couple of special abilities.

50:21You can get currency to put transparent sliders into the, you know, upgrade the cards, much like Mystic Veil or Unstoppable, that stuff. So you're making cards better by adding some icons, maybe abilities. And you get currency by taking out bad guys. You will move around a map. There's a big bad that is gradually moving toward your hideout. And there are big bad, there are little baddies that are spread around. and you play icons from your cards to take them out and do good in this map. However, after every move you do, after every turn, you're going to add minions in the circle around you. So you might be bordering four spaces.

51:09You're going to put out four little bad guy tokens in all the spaces that are around you. You might be bordering seven spaces. You're going to put seven little tokens around you. And some of those not only will put more minions out on the board, but will also cause them to surge and move and come towards you. And they're going to do damage to you. They're going to do damage to you if they're in your space and you only have so many hit points. You need to heal and do stuff to stay alive and manipulate these groups of people. But ultimately, you have to take down the big bad. The big bad has a lot of hit points.

51:42In our four-player game, he had 65 hit points. Yeah, he's tough. Yes. You have to start attacking them at some point, but the big bad doesn't really earn you a lot of money. You need to earn money by taking out the little guys, and that's how you afford stuff for your deck to make your deck better, because your basic deck isn't going to cut it going up against the big bad. The big bad also has blocking dice when you try to attack the big bad, maybe with a bunch of color-coded symbols. They're going to roll dice and possibly block colors of attack. So if I have tuned my deck to be very strong in purple, and I am going to do six damage in purple, and the bad guy rolls purple on the dice, my entire turn is done.

52:29Or my entire attack is done. That particular movement phase is done. If there are too many minions, they reach a threshold in an area, which is very, very easy to do as they surge around the board. they're going to burst that, overcome that zone, no longer giving you the special ability for that zone, which helps you churn your deck, make purchases, get some currency, trade stuff. You don't get to do that anymore. And I spent, when I played, oh, the game only goes five turns, by the way. You only have five rounds to defeat the big bad and take him down to zero. And if you are blocked multiple times, you sometimes get bonuses for landing certain color attacks on the big bad.

53:18But if they're blocked, you don't get those bonuses. So for several turns, I had zero currency because I decided to go after the big bad. And so I had no upgrades for my deck for several turns of the game and blocked several of my attacks. And eventually I was surrounded by spiders. and I think I was eaten and carried off to their nest. I think this game's too hard. And it was one of those that we kept reading the rule book over and over, like we're missing something. They're all surging too fast. There's something wrong with the pace here. It's possible that we were just terrible. And that could still be true.

53:58No, you're right, Eric. I really wanted to like this game. I love the theme. I love the art. I like Fireside Games. it is so hard yes and i think that's a i think that kind of kills the game because whether you like hard video i mean hard board games or not this game looks like it's for families yes and this is going to just really discourage people it's also too long and too short at the same time as in the game is a long game but there's only five turns so a deck building game doesn't work with five turns, really. When you're only buying five cards, I mean, you can. There's ways to get additional buys.

54:38There were levers to pull, but I think what really, the thing that finally puts the stake in the heart of this is those block dice and that you can build up to a major move and you feel so good about playing all these symbols and I got these cards in my hand, I got this great move and I don't land it and get nothing if a purple shows up on two dice. No, this is a pass. This is way too thorny for me, and I'll be moving on from Ham Helsing. All right, well, let's bring up the mood here with Cozy Stickerville. Okay. Cozy Stickerville is from Corey Kanetska Unexpected Games. This is the first time now that I've, in a while, where I've played a game that was described as cozy.

55:26Well, cozy's actually in the name of this game. where I felt that they were accurate with the word. There's a lot of games like, it's cozy. I'm like, you mean it looks cozy? I actually stabbed my opponents 15 times. My wheelhouse, I see. But this one really is cozy. If you like games like Animal Crossing, et cetera, et cetera, that's what this is. In fact, this is barely a game. What it is is it's a big board, and you will play some stickers on this board building a little town. That's what you do before the game starts. You put out like eight stickers on the board, your house and some trees and stuff.

56:03Then you start one of 10 games. And each game, you draw an event card. The event card often gives you a choice. You make the choice. Something will happen. And then after you do that, you take one action. Your actions often are some of these event cards stay out. And it will say, John wants to move to your village or Judy wants to move to your village. John's a crazy inventor. or Judy wants to bring art. And you're like, oh, which one do I want in the village? And you pick one in that person now, you put a sticker on the board. But once it's stickers on the board, you can then for your action say, I want to visit Judy's house and something will happen and so on and so forth.

56:42And that's the game. It's a huge multiple choice book game. And at the end of the game, you have more stickers on the board. You put the 10 or I think it's 12. I don't remember how many cards there are per game. event cards away, draw out the next deck, everything stays the same, and you keep playing. So me and the kids have played through the whole thing. We played through all ten games, and there is enough stuff left over that you can play another ten games in the back. It's just that if you get to the spot where it's like, John or Judy can come visit, it's going to be Judy, if you said John the first time, etc.

57:19So you have less choices the second time through, but still lots of choices. We did not get to do everything. There's a little little bit of escape room stuff in there, very mild stuff that comes across. But it's just such a treat. Everyone was amused. Oh, this happened. This guy came. Is this guy bad or good? Meanwhile, I guess there's a little bit of trigger warning. If you have problems with your an overbearing father, definitely that's the case here. You're like Bill that your father's like, meh, I can do better than that. he's like there the whole like he's in the background the whole time because you start off by being a lazy terrible child of your father so he sent you off to prove yourself are you really let's unpack it's a journey of discovery well you are kind of lazy but I guess you get this game as you're coming out you're redeeming yourself yeah I don't want to spoil but there's like some family stuff but again it's not that deep It's not a lot of – there's no murder or bloodshed or any of that stuff.

58:27The worst thing that happens, maybe someone will steal from you or they will scam you or what have you. But we just found it to be very engaging. We played it in three sessions. We played three games, then four games, then three games. Okay. And it just – it's easy to pack up, put away. It is disposable. Obviously, when we're done playing the second ten games, we'll be done with it. but I had a really amusing time. I'd say we probably played six to seven hours total, maybe seven or eight. I'm not sure. I wasn't timing it, but we had a lot of fun and I think it's very worthy of the cozy name. Cool.

59:03The other game I played was Fest Season. This is the game that was constantly interrupted by shouts from Eric's table. Well, that was actually the second time I played it. This is a game in which you're throwing on a music festival in which you have different artists coming and performing. They're all parodies of actual artists. And this is a big game. Parts of it feel like Ark Nova. Parts of it feel like a roll and write because in this game you take an action. There's one of three different actions or one of six different actions you could take. And sometimes taking an action moves you up in a track and moving up in that track gives you another action.

59:40And then that action, when you take that, gives you another action. And so you're building stages, bringing artists into these stages, buying amenities for you. You need a bathroom in your music festival, I hope. Or maybe you want to build a little burger stand or what have you. And then also, do you want to promote rock or alternative or heavy metal music? There's different kinds of music, different genres. And the theme carries it a lot, but this is one of my favorite heavy Euro games I've played in a long time. I wouldn't even say it's that heavy. It's lighter than, say, La Cerda and Galactic Cruise.

1:00:16But it's still a lot going on in it. But I think the theme makes it really easy to decide what to do. I'm going to build a level two stage because, you know, the mild green chili tomatoes, you know, we're going to play on that stage. There's a lot of that in this game. In fact, sometimes they just changed a letter. Or even U2 is Y-O-U-T-O-O. So I'm like, all right, great. Anyhow. Legally distinct. Yep. Legally distinct. But it is. And in fact, I've debated, you know, there's like a program I think where you can paste up and I thought, would it be fun to put in the real names of people? But I don't know.

1:00:59I don't mind the silly names either. And it's just, I think that's a lot of fun, but it also offers really good choices. Trying to kind of build up your engine, building these stages, getting income. as you move up the tracks. So a few minor production things. It's a first time company that did a Kickstarter, you know, so there's some, a few minor production things that would have changed. But overall, I love this game. This was a big surprise for me, a big rose or hula hoop, whatever one's a surprise. It sounded like the biggest discussion came from when you had to decide in the beginning of the game, I don't think you play with all the music genres.

1:01:36You said like, pick one of these that doesn't get played. And there was a lot of - It took like five minutes to do that. A lot of discussion. There was yelling there too. I think we took EDM out. I think was the music. I don't remember if it was EDM or it might have been pop. One of the, some music went out. Because with four players, you don't play with all the music. And I'll never play with five, so I'll never know. And they even have two expansions where you can buy, where you can pick your genre music. Because if you're a country fan, there is no country music in this game. I am amused though.

1:02:08Both times, the last two times I've played this. I said, which music were you throwing out? And everyone shouted country. I'm like, it's not in the game. Not an option. Pick a different genre. I'm going to put polka and just annoy people. Sure. So that was fest season. Fest season, which, ooh, I need to make sure that we have that at Dice Tower West so I can teach it to people. That would be west season. Yeah. I know Jisogi is going to be there on a hot games table and Eternal Dex will be there on a hot games table. Nice. Nice. I look forward to setting those up. All righty. Well, we still have time to go in between then and now.

1:02:43This is the... I need to knock on some wood. This is the quietest month of the year, usually February, maybe. I hope so. As we prepare for the rest of the year. But thank you all for listening to us. And until next time, I'm Tom Bassel. I'm Julie Ahern. And I'm Eric Sommerer. And we'll see you at the table. Thanks for listening. At the Table is produced by Tom, Julie, and Eric with assistance from the team at Dice Tower Studios. You can find us online on Facebook or on BoardGameGeek in the Dice Tower Guild. Promotional consideration has been provided by publishers in the form of review copies of games.

1:03:16Dave Culling arranged our theme based on themes by Timothy Pinkham and Prince William's autobiography provided by The King is Dad. Until next time, from all of us at the table, have fun gaming.

1:03:35You just like dad jokes? That was a dad joke for sure. I actually thought that was funny, that one. Oh, my gosh. The king is dad. It's a rare thumbs up from Tom. I know. It's a rare thumbs up. I don't know what to do with myself.