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Bikers Dice and Bars Character Jam #19: Blackout in Crater Valley

We’re back with another Character Jam! This time we’re doing another DCC spin-off, and it’s a glorious one: Blackout in Crater Valley! It’s a game about feeding a bunch of 1980s teenagers to a Halloween Nightmare, and it’s a perfect new addition to what might hopefully become a long tradition of running DCC games on the spookiest night of the year. Give us a listen and laugh along at all of the awesome new character options in this Stranger Things-esque adventure module!

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BDaB Character Jam 17: Ray Winninger’s Underground

This is another part of the big “2020 Close-out!” backlog rush, and as such the notes here are at a minimum.

In this character jam, we attempt to make characters for Ray Winninger’s Underground. ” It’s like Platoon meets Dead Presidents meets Article 99 meets Captain America Civil War meets Jacob’s Ladder.” This is a long one, and there’s lots of math, but it’s a really good episode, and we hope you like it!

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BDaB Character Jam 16: Firefly Part 1: The Characters

NOTE: This episode kicks off a major effort to clear out the editing backlog in the final weeks of 2020. The show notes on these are kept at a minimum until we clear out the log, which ends with the last of our new Mothership RPG Actual Play sessions.

In this new Character Jam, we make an _awesome_ set of new heroes for the excellent Firefly RPG. Please give it a listen, and then check out the special bonus Part 2 episode on Patreon, where we later meet back up and create our ship!

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BDaB Character Jam 15: Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (1st Ed)

FINALLY! We’ve had a lot of tech difficulties in the last month, resulting in two “lost” episodes and a whole new approach to the entire way we record. Hopefully things are worked out, so for now, here’s our latest new character jam! This time we try our hand at drunkenly making characters for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 1st Edition. And spoilers: it does not go well, but it’s still hilarious through to the end.

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BDaB Patron Exclusive #1: Tales from the Loop Campaign Session Zero!

Back when JJ, DXG, and I started this variety show project, one of the ideas that we had for filling time after recording an episode was to keep drinking while trying to make characters for the many different RPGs sitting on my gaming shelf. We called these “Character Jams” and they started pretty early on in our show. While we’ve had a blast each time we’ve recorded one of these Jams, and occasionally joked about how fun a campaign with the characters would be, we never had actual intentions of taking them any further than the char-gen process. After all, there are so many games to jam on, and we wanna get to all of them someday, right?

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