For our tenth episode, our drinks of the evening are a pairing of George Dickel Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey and the "Local Logger" Lager from Everybody's Brewing. In our bike segment, Just Jacob gives a post-ride report on a recent trip he took through eastern Washington, following it up with a talk about emergency bike maintenance and safety tips. The Game Talk topic is the divisive subject of tabletop RPG character creation methods, specifically the conflict between Point-Buy and Random Roll systems. Finally, during our Bar Talk we share our feelings on Smoking in bars, including discussion of the continual banning of it in bars nationwide.

Plus, we got an email from Francis James Hogan, creator of Adventure Maximus! If you haven't checked out our Character Jam on that system, please do. It's a charming game, and we'd love to hear your stories from it.

Ten episodes and going strong, yay! Drop us a line! You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram as "Breakfastpuppy" or email us as either NPC, Justjacob, or DrXanderGerrymander at Breakfastpuppies dot com! We have a Discord Channel, Facebook Page, and Google Plus Community, too! And let us know your thoughts by leaving a review on iTunes!

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Links of Note:

• Sag Wagons
• American Motorcycle Association
• Adventure Maximus RPG!
• Guardian Games Portland

Credits:

• Hosts: NPC, Just Jacob, and Dr. Xander Gerrymander
• Theme Song: "Bikers, Dice, and Bars" by Skip VonKuske
• Drink of the Evening: George Dickel Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey, Everybody's Brewing "Local Logger" Lager
• Final Thoughts: Thanks again Francis for the awesome email and gaming offer!

Timestamps (We support chapters!):

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:00:33 Welcome
• 00:06:23 Bike Talk
• 00:22:25 Game Talk
• 00:41:44 Bar Talk
• 01:03:07 Last Call
• 01:09:48 Outro

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We're thrilled to have a very special guest with us this week: Linsel Greene, the former bartender of the legendary Tugboat Brewery, Portland's oldest independent nano-brewery, which unfortunately closed down for good last year. We start off with a talk about recumbent and electrics bikes, which a lot of local bicycle mavens love to hate for some reason. In our nerd chat segment, we discuss various types of co-op board games, and our experiences playing them. Finally, we close our episode with a deeply heartfelt eulogy for the Tugboat Brewery, which we all miss dearly. It was a beloved icon of Old Portland, and we were all pretty devastated by its loss.

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• Hosts: NPC, Just Jacob, and Dr. Xander Gerrymander
• Guests: Linsel Greene, former bartender at The Tugboat
• Theme Song: "Bikers, Dice, and Bars" by Skip VonKuske
• Drink of the Evening: A selection of Ports! Treos Ternion Dessert Wine, Quenett 2011 Boiler House Port, and Kopke 20-year Tawny Port
• Final Thoughts: RIP, the Tugboat. You were truly representative of a better age of this rapidly degenerating town.

Topics Mentioned:

• Babe-raham Lincoln
• Portland Samurai Biker Guy
• PedalPT
• Oregon Moped, Motorized Scooter, and Pocket Bike Guide
• Escape the Dark Castle Kickstarter

Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:00:33 Welcome
• 00:06:03 Bike Talk
• 00:28:27 Game Talk
• 00:51:13 Bar Talk
• 01:13:11 Last Call
• 01:19:04 Outro

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We're back with another Character Jam! This time we pulled NPC's copy of Adventure Maximus off the shelf for a run through its initial character creation process. It's a super-cute visually-driven RPG designed for kids, with some really cool ideas equally hilarious and clever. This might be our shortest one yet, but that's just because Adventure Maximus focuses on such a quick set up to play. Enjoy!

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• Hosts: NPC, Just Jacob, and Dr. Xander Gerrymander
• Guests: Poppy Beaujolais
• Theme Song: "Bikers, Dice, and Bars" by Skip VonKuske
• Final Thoughts: I have not been drinking, yes I have been drinking...

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With Xander out due to illness, NPC, Just Jacob, and Poppy spend an evening drinking Kalimotxo and talking about their experiences at the recent Wagoncon event in The Dalles, OR. This episode goes pretty off the reails so we decided to keep it shorter and make it a bonus release. Thanks again for listening, and we hope to see you all at Wagconcon in 2019!

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• Hosts: NPC, Just Jacob
• Guests: Poppy Beaujolais
• Theme Song: "Bikers, Dice, and Bars" by Skip VonKuske
• Drink of the Evening: Kalimotxo (Red wine and Coca-Cola, served over ice)
• Final Thoughts: Ron is a national treasure

Timestamps:

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:34 Welcome
• 12:47 Wagoncon Thoughts
• 45:40 Outro

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Xander's back, hooray! Our drink of the evening is one of NPC's old time favorites, the Royal Crown Royal, which is nothing more than Crown Royal whiskey mixed with Royal Crown Cola, over ice. We kick off our topics with a discussion about the joys of Touring on motorcycles and bicycles, including tips for the road and how to pack the necessities. In our second segment, we talk about the concept of the Gaming Group as a major social hub, and then unexpectedly drift into a conversation about using role-playing as a form of self-therapy. We wrap up with a chat about our favorite times at Karaoke bars in the Portland area. And we even recorded a new Character Jam bonus episode afterward, so stay tuned for that to come later!

Also, Dr Xander Gerrymander made us empanadas! You unfortunately can't taste them, but I assure you they were most delicious.

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• Hosts: NPC, Just Jacob, and Dr. Xander Gerrymander
• Theme Song: "Bikers, Dice, and Bars" by Skip VonKuske
• Drink of the Evening: Royal Crown Royal (Crown Royal Whiskey and Royal Crown Cola)
• Final Thoughts: "Beverly" is the weird Coke variant I was talking about

Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:00:34 Welcome
• 00:08:58 Bike Talk
• 00:28:29 Game Talk
• 00:49:22 Bar Talk
• 01:05:36 Last Call
• 01:12:28 Outro

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With Xander absent due to illness, the rest of us post-Wagoncon-exhausted folks decided to get drunk on Kalimotxo and break out the ol' D&D Rules Cyclopedia for another Character Jam! We're using my old original print copy for this session, from which I've birthed many awesome gaming memories over the last three decades.

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• Hosts: NPC, Just Jacob
• Guests: Poppy Beaujolais
• Theme Song: "Bikers, Dice, and Bars" by Skip VonKuske
• Final Thoughts: We really, really don't want JJ to Make Mystara Great Again...

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It's our first ever "show on the road" - live from Wagoncon 2018 in The Dalles, we've brought the crew from all of our shows (Have Movies, Will Game and the brand new HAMMERCRAWL! podcast) together for a multi-show celebration!

This time around we are drinking quite a variety of things, but our specific showcase is the 2015 Oregon Mountain Pinot Noir, showcased by our special guest Spencer from the Sunshine Mill winery. For our bike talk segment, we start with a ride report following the devastation of last year's big Eagle Creek Fire, before talking with our guests about their favorite bikes, both past, present, and future. For our game talk, we jam on a variety of topics and tangents, focusing most on the PC Games we love and especially the current favorite, PUBG. In our final segment, we talk in more detail about the delicious wines we've been drinking, and tell about some of the interesting facts of the Sunshine Mill Winery.

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• Hosts: NPC and Just Jacob
• Guests: Dusty Eppers, Matthew Gray, Poppy Beaujolais, and Spencer
• Theme Song: "Bikers, Dice, and Bars" by Skip VonKuske
• Drink of the Evening: 2015 Oregon Mountain Pinot Noir, Old Granddad, Gentleman Jack, Jameson
• Final Thoughts: 90% of the time Spencer wins 100% of the time.

Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:00:33 Welcome
• 00:08:20 Bike Talk
• 00:28:27 Game Talk
• 00:50:26 Bar Talk
• 01:14:48 Last Call
• 01:18:10 Outro

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Hello everyone and welcome back. Just a heads up that there's a super wee slight bit of voice crackle in the middle segment of this episode, due to a dying cable on the back end that we didn't catch until we took a break. We were able to salvage the recording well enough, and hopefully it isn't too awful! The naughty cable was quickly punished, and has since been replaced.

We open with our drink of the evening: Xander's personal recipe for "The Desert Storm" cocktail, featuring Arak, orange juice, and grenadine. We then fire off our discussions with a pretty passionate conversation about greenways, bike lanes, those confusing "green boxes" around town, and the outright lies that are "Bike-Friendly!" living developments in the infrastructurally-corrupt city of Portland. Hashtag #fuckPBoT! In our nerd-talk segment we discuss the controversy behind "loot crates" in video games. In our bar-talk segment we lament the loss of good bars, and share stories of some of those we miss the most. We close out with some personal talk about the road we've traveled thus far with our podcast, and our feelings toward the future.

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• Hosts: NPC, Just Jacob, and Dr. Xander Gerrymander
• Theme Song: "Bikers, Dice, and Bars" by Skip VonKuske
• Drink of the Evening: Desert Storm (Oregon Arak from Bull Run Distilling, orange juice, pineapple splash, pomegranate grenadine)
• Xander's Referenced Verge Article: Here
• Final Thoughts: Six episodes and some change, and we're having a blast. We hope you stick around for all the more awesome things to come!

Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:00:34 Welcome
• 00:04:58 Bike Talk
• 00:24:57 Game Talk
• 00:46:40 Bar Talk
• 01:06:13 Last Call
• 01:17:13 Outro
• 01:17:48 BONUS

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For our third bonus Character Jam episode, Poppy joins us again as we make characters for the recently-kickstarted "Tales from the Loop" RPG. Listen along as we make a new group of kids to play through a fantastical 1980s America that never was. And be sure to check out all the inspirational artwork from Simon Stålenhag!

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• Hosts: NPC, Just Jacob, and Dr. Xander Gerrymander
• Guests: Poppy Beaujolais
• Theme Song: "Bikers, Dice, and Bars" by Skip VonKuske
• Final Thoughts: We really want to play this game! If you have any interest in hearing this, let us know!

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Welcome back! This week Dr. Xander Gerrymander was unable to join us, but we're also joined by two guests from our Monday night gaming group, Christina and Mike. They brought delicious whiskey sours with them, made with Rebel Yell Kentucky Straight Bourbon.

In our first segment we talk with our guests about their involvement in and with the Dropout Bike Club, giving insights into Bike Club culture in the Pacific Northwest. We also speak at length about Portland's legendary event Zoo Bomb (which you can see more about in the Veer Documentary). In the gaming segment we talk about Dark Age of Camelot, Star Wars Galaxies, and our other favorite Massively-Multiplayer Role-Playing Games from yesteryear, as well as what kind of drive it takes to be an awesome guild master in such a social scene. We close out with insights into and stories from the life of a worker in the "back of the house" of bars and dives and more.

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• Hosts: NPC and Just Jacob
• Guests: Christina Riot and Mike Tousignant
• Theme Song: "Bikers, Dice, and Bars" by Skip VonKuske
• Drink of the Evening: Whiskey Sours (Rebel Yell)
• Final Thoughts: The old MMOs they ain't what they used to be, ain't what they used to be...

Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:00:33 Welcome
• 00:07:22 Bike Talk
• 00:24:56 Game Talk
• 00:49:38 Bar Talk
• 01:07:54 Wrap
• 01:19:37 Outro

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