Thomas J. Vasel is a podcaster, designer and reviewer of board games,[1][2][3] and hosted The Dice Tower podcast 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.
[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.