Ambie's Top 100 Games: 80-71

January 28, 2020

Ambie's revisiting her top 100 games as of the end of 2019! This video is numbers 80-71.


Top 100 Games: Ambie's 80-71

May 28, 2018

For our two year podcast anniversary, we decided to put together our top 100 board games of all time! In this video, Ambie goes over her top 80-71 games.


Strategically Thematic: The Gallerist

May 11, 2017

Strategically Thematic is a segment featured on The Dice Tower's bi-weekly Throat Punch Lunch videos about games where the theme and mechanics go together really well.


Episode 3 - All Things Unique

June 23, 2016

Ambie, Cassadi, and Crystal discuss some games they've played recently, including Keyflower, FUSE, Pixel Tactics, and City of Remnants. The "Accessory of the Week" segment is about 3D printers - not necessarily an accessory, but can be used for making accessories. We then discuss great games with a unique theme. In this week's "Board Game Etymology" segment, Crystal discusses the origins of the word "dice."

KublaCon 2016 Recap

June 22, 2016

by Ambie Valdés
KublaCon is a gaming convention held on Memorial Day Weekend in the Bay Area, California. Since I live 15 minutes away, I go every year. I believe KublaCon started out as an RPG convention - it has an online system for signing up for different RPG events, and it has a lot of rooms for RPGs and miniatures gaming. But it also has some tabletop gaming, which is primarily what I'm interested in. This year, I spent a lot of time playing games with old friends and new friends.

Throughout KublaCon, I was able to play 25 different games, 10 of which were new to me. Since there are way too many games to talk about, I'll just mention some of the highlights (and show the pictures I remembered to take).

I started off the convention Friday night with Millennium Blades (Amazon), a meta card game about a collectible card game (CCG). You get to draft cards, buy cards, make a collection, and make a deck to play in a 'tournament' against everyone. There are a whole bunch of cards - with a starter deck of 118 cards, plus 12 packs of boosters (12 cards each) added each game to make the main store deck, that's over 250 cards in the game! Also, there's tons of variety, so in the 3 rounds of play, I made 3 different tournament decks, all with different types of combos and ways to get points.
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