Bikers, Dice, and Bars Podcast

We're super ultra mega excited this time to finally have a good chance to open the very special bottle of Nikka single malt whiskey that Poppy brought us from her recent trip to Osaka. While killing off most of this delicious spirit, we take a break from the usual format to enjoy a good long discussion of the various Shows, Movies, Books, and Games we've been enjoying this Summer. There are a LOT...

We're back with another Character Jam, this time bringing out the recently-released Forbidden Lands RPG, from Free League! Listen as we drink George Dickel Rye, and attempt to make characters for a new game. The Mad Marquis returns as well! We've already jammed one of Free League's games back in our third CJ episode ( #3: Tales From the Loop ), and we have more news on that front coming very soon,...

Welcome back for episode 30 of Bikers, Dice, and Bars! This time we brought on our good friend Larry Reading, former proprietor of our favorite now-departed neighborhood local. In our Bike Talk, Xander updates us on his progress beautifying his brand new scooter, which he has christened "the Black Dahlia." In our nerd talk, Larry teaches us about the history of the charitable Toys for Tots organiz...

For this session we welcome Zach Barcus from Slap Dash Studios as our guest. Zach joins us to drink a decent sub-$20 bourbon and follow it with a round of "cheap beer taste-off" contest. In our Bike Talk segment, Just Jacob educates us on the basics of getting into cycling and motorbiking as a total noob to the hobby. In our Game Talk segment, Zach details his personal methods for getting into cha...

Hop in the saddle and ride on down to Camp BDaB, and join us for our Summer Camp special! No, we're not actually at a summer camp, but instead we're here to talk about all things Camp-related. Our good friend Alex sits with us this evening, helping us down a mix of white russians and black russians, poured by Just Jacob. In our Bike Talk segment, we discuss tips and methods for safe and effective...

It's time for another Character Jam, woooo! In preparation for a new batch of upcoming recordings for our sister podcast, this time we're going through the newly-completed HAMMERCRAWL! RPG character creation system. This one's an entirely home-brewed game system, cobbled together from what were once just house rules merging a dozen other old school gaming systems. Our HAMMERCRAWL! games have consi...

We recorded this special WWII-themed episode on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, aka Operation Overlord. In the spirit of that anniversary, we decided to focus our episode's topics around themes relating to WWII. In our Bike Talk segment, DXG and JJ take a stab at educating us on some of the historical highlights of the usage of bicycles and motorbikes in warfare. In our Game Talk segme...

For this special new Character Jam, the BDaB crew tackles another of NPC's favorite games, Beyond the Wall (and other adventures) . This is a classic-inspired "retroclone" style adventure game, rooted in small-village tales such as Lloyd Alexander's great Chronicles of Prydain . We have a blast making characters for this one, but beware! Many puns await within! Listen at your own peril! Drop us a...

Welcome to Season 2 of the Bikers, Dice, and Bars Podcast, recorded in the drunken city of Portland, OR! The Breakfast Puppies crew is back from vacation, recording our first episode in the new studio. Did you miss us? With both Linsel and Poppy out on prior engagements, this time we're back to just the original three, doing things OG style once more. Our drink of the evening is a small assortment...

We've got another special bonus episode of Bikers Dice and Bars in the feed! JJ and NPC hit up the recent Gamestorm convention here in Portland, OR, and managed to grab some great interviews with a few of the passers-by, including the director of the convention itself. Tune in for some great gaming stories, and a taste of both the Gamestorm and the upcoming Wagoncon events. And don't forget to cat...

Coming at you with another awesome drunken Character Jam, the Bikers Dice and Bars crew is back with our longest episode yet. This one was just too good to split into two, so sit back and enjoy an extended romp through the random hilarity of Palladium's Nightbane Role-Playing Game! We're currently halfway through a month-long content break as we move to a brand new recording studio. This episode w...

We made it through our first year! We recorded this episode as a first anniversary special. Breaking out the Red Breast 15-Year and the ever-popular Yellow Spot, we break from the usual Biking-Gaming-Drinking segment flow, and go a little free-form on this one. Highlights include: We take a look back at our favorite moments from the show in the first year. We again clink to the much-lamented passi...

Ho-lee Heck-balls, folks, we unexpectedly got a wee bit tanked on this episode, thanks first to over-strong pours of a mixed drink we'd never had before, and then doubly again due to DXG's surprise addition of some soon-to-be-gone-forever Bridgeport beers. It's a bit of a wild ride! We had a lot of fun with this one, and despite some meandering along tangents at times, it was a joyous occasion, an...

It's time for a very special Valentine's Day episode of Bikers, Dice, and Bars! Linsel and Doctor Xander Gerrymander couldn't join us for this one due to prior romantic commitments, and it's a damn shame too, as Poppy surprised the rest of us with a bottle of Yellow Spot Irish Whiskey! In our Bike Talk segment, we go over the reasons, methods, and precautions for/when riding "two-up" on your two-w...

Time for another Character Jam! We haven't done one of these in a while, so we're excited to be back on the jam. This time around, following up on our previous Fallout-themed episode, we're taking a drunken crack at making characters for the new-ish "Umerican Survival Guide" RPG, from Shield of Faith Studios. It's pure gonzo post-apocalyptic mayhem in the style of Thundarr and Korgoth, with some a...

Welcome back to the show, good friends! For our 22nd episode, we're taking you on a trip through the WASTELAND! All the while, we're drinking what we felt like were "last minute appropriate" wasteland drinks, the kind of which you might find in your journeys out there in the Boston Commonwealth... In our Bike Talk segment, we discuss, compare, and contrast the pros and cons of Motorcycles vs Bicyc...

Kicking off the new year right, we're back for episode 21 of the podcast! We invited our good friend The Mad Marquis to join us as a special guest as we look ahead to all the biker-y, gamer-y, and drink-y plans we have for the coming year. Afterword, the Marquis gives us insight into the Portland Oregon Burlesque performance scene, and his history of involvement with it. All the while, (some of) o...

Hot damn, we made it twenty episodes! This time we're celebrating with what is probably the beer most commonly brought to every house party in Portland, Full Sail Brewing Company's "Session" lager! In our Bike Talk segment, we talk about the "ghost bike" phenomenon, and go over some unexpectedly interesting stats on cyclist deaths over the recent years. In our Game Talk segment, we talk about how...

This time we have two special guests in the studio, Andre and Alma of the local klesmer-gypsy-punk band Chervona! Our drink of the evening is Bak’s Bison Grass Vodka (aka Żubrówka), a new experience that I (NPC) quite enjoyed - this may even become my new go-to for vodka drinking! In our Bike Talk segment we check in on Xander's daily frosty commute, and then tell stories of Chervona's bike-religi...

It’s the long awaited “Whiskey with Matt Buckley” bonus episode! Back in September, NPC, Poppy, Dr. Gerrymander, and Just Jacob sat down at 4K Ranch for a special curated tour of Matt’s stunning Irish Whiskey collection (after a fun day of eating, exploring, and shooting). Matt is one of the co-founders of the amazing Wagoncon gaming convention here in the Columbia Gorge, and as part of this episo...

Welcome back to the show, folks. This episode is all about promoting Accessibility in our favorite hobbies! Poppy (your favorite local Wannabe Wine Snob) brings our drinks of the evening, which are both the White and Red Winemaker's Cut wines from Copa di Vino, a winemaker we've mentioned before in previous episodes. In our Bike segment, we talk about a variety of options available to make motorbi...

It's spoooOOOoOoOoOOOooky time on Bikers, Dice, and Bars! We decided to be cliche and do our first ever Halloween-themed episode, accompanying our talk with a variety of pumpkin beers from the great Pacific Northwest. In our Bike Talk segment, we talk about how to effectively ride on Halloween, including costume ideas, costume no-nos, and other tips. In our game talk, we talk about techniques for...

For our sixteenth main-program episode, we're jamming on a fairly massive variety of Oktoberfest-styled beers, about half of which are from the Oregon area and the other half from Germany. In our first segment, Just Jacob guides us through a discussion about safety tips for riding in the coming rain season here in the Pacific Northwest. In our Game Talk segment, NPC tells us about Virtual Tabletop...

We're back with another Character Jam episode! In each of these episodes, we record ourselves drunkenly attempting to make characters for a new role-playing game. This time we're tackling one of my all-time favorite games, "The Nightmares Underneath" by Johnstone Metzger. It's yet another "retro" style of game - we apparently do a lot of these because they're pretty simple to go through as a bunch...

Yes, in this episode, we finally complain about E-Scooters, hooray! Once again we've brought Linsel along, more or less upgrading his prestige class to "Regular Host" on our show. Our drinks of the evening are a couple of delicious varieties of Linsel's own "Switchel" recipe, brought to us in mason jars and mixed at the table with Louisiana's own Bayou Rum. In our first segment, we talk about the...