We've talked a lot about wanting to run convention games and we'll have our first chance this January! FAN EXPO Portland was kind enough to invite us to take over part of their show floor for three days of D&D, starting with a new Leyfarer Quest: The Beasts Within.

Something stirs in its forgotten resting place, awakening unpredictable magics. Gather your party, seek its wild source, and unleash your inner animal!

We'll have multiple tables running The Beasts Within with three timeslots:

• Friday, 1/24, from 4-8 PM

• Saturday, 1/25, from 10:30-2:30 PM

• Saturday, 1/25, from 3-7 PM

... followed by an afterparty with a special extra reward for the brave adventurers who stopped the wild magic plaguing New Briar's End!

The Sunday of the convention we'll be switching gears to run The Nine Lives Trial, our intro to 5th Edition D&D, and fitting in as many free games as possible.

All of the FAN EXPO games will require a convention badge. The afterparty is open to everyone, but will have a few secret menu items for badge holders in addition to the epilogue for The Beats Within. We're super excited for our convention debut and hope to see y'all there!

Last month we released a prime beer poking candidate, The Walking Void, just before our monthly beer poking and we've managed to sneak a second in this month with Dubbel Trouble! We brewed up this Belgian Dubbel with our friends Three Creeks out in Sisters and can't way to see how it holds up to the heat.

We busted out the old homebrew equipment and made Belgian candi sugar from scratch, giving bold caramel flavors alongside petit blanc hops and the quintessential Belgian finish. 8.9% ABV 15 IBU

This easy drinking beer rolled with advantage & got dubbel 20's in deception. Be careful, adventurer, it's stronger than it appears!

Beer poking starts at 6 PM tonight, Wednesday 11/27, and in addition to our beers we'll have Luna Lagoon, a gluten-free Tropical Stout from Mutantis Cult Brewery, and Deschutes' Non-Alcoholic Black Butte Porter back for another round as well.

While we will be closed tomorrow (Thursday) for the holiday, we're offering a crowler discount through the weekend to keep you topped up for the festivities. Crowlers will be 3-for-2 today through Friday night and can include any of our beers except Dubbel Trouble.

And yes, by popular demand we're now offering crowlers and growlers of both our Bananaweizen and Michelada! You will need to mix them yourself though, our attempts to actually can the beer cocktails continue to be met with disaster...

• Wednesday 11/27 - Last Wednesday: Bierstacheln (Beer Poking)

   

• Thursday 11/28 - Closed

   

• Monday 12/2 - First Monday: Blood on the Clocktower Takeover

   

• Tuesday 12/3 - FWD RPG PNW Presents: Not the End: Valley of Shadows & Drop-In Dungeons Presents: Shadowdark Megadungeon

   

• Thursday 12/5 - Monthly 5e Character Creation Workshop & Dungeon Battle Karaoke is back at Clinton Street Theater and we're sponsoring a very cool prize...

   

• Monday 12/9 - Open Miniature Painting Night

   

• Thursday 12/12 - Monthly GM Networking

   

• Saturday 12/14 - Our first Game Jam kicks off! Design and playtest your own short tabletop game with the help of our staff!

   

• Sunday 12/15 - Intro to Magical Kitties Save the Day, one of our favorite all ages roleplaying games

• Monday 12/16 - Monthly Musicale Monday, featuring no cover live tavern music

• Thursday 12/19 - Monthly History of Tabletop Roleplaying & FWD RPG PNW Presents: Thirsty Third Thursdays

   

• Tuesday 12/24 & Wednesday 12/25 - Closed

   

• Monday 12/30 - FWD RPG PNW's monthly non-D&D takeover

• Tuesday 12/31 - Shadows of the Year II, our fancy, 5e-focused New Years Party

Cheers!

- Team TPK

Oh, you read all the way to the end? Well here's a sneak peek of an awesome new Hop Dragon from Steven Suiter (who designs all our tap handles) that will be gracing our shirts and hoodless sweatshirts soon...