American podcaster, designer, and board games reviewer
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Thomas J. Vasel is a podcaster, designer and reviewer of board games,[1][2][3] and hosted The Dice Towerpodcast from 2003-2022, which has more than 300,000 subscribers. Vasel began publishing board game reviews in 2002 on BoardGameGeek,[4] followed by YouTube,[5][6] and his Dice Tower website.[7][8][9] As of 2021, he has rated over 7000 games and expansions.[10] His first board game review was for The Settlers of Canaan.[4][11]
Vasel was the designer of the board game Vicious Fishes in 2010,[12] and co-designer for the boardgame Nothing Personal in 2013.[13]
One of his children, Jack Vasel, died in 2011, resulting in Vasel establishing the Jack Vasel Memorial Fund,[14] a not-for-profit fund with the goal of raising and distributing funds to help gamers in their hour of need.[15][16][17]
