Thomas J. Vasel is a podcaster, designer and reviewer of board games, and hosted ''The Dice Tower''

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from 2003-2022, which has more than 300,000 subscribers. Vasel began publishing board game reviews in 2002 on

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, followed by

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, and his ''Dice Tower'' website. As of 2021, he has rated over 7000 games and expansions. His first board game review was for ''

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''. Vasel was the designer of the board game ''Vicious Fishes'' in 2010, and co-designer for the boardgame ''Nothing Personal'' in 2013. One of his children, Jack Vasel, died in 2011, resulting in Vasel establishing the ''Jack Vasel Memorial Fund'', a not-for-profit fund with the goal of raising and distributing funds to help gamers in their hour of need.

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