Need a joyful four hours with friends where the war feels far far away and you can fall in love, and choose a future that you're excited about? Then I have the game for you! Find Lumberjills at IPR's Booth 1203 at Origins Game Fair June 19-22 in Columbus, OH - or at IPR right now!

Need a joyful four hours with friends where the war feels far far away and you can fall in love, and choose a future that you're excited about? Then I have the game for you! Find Lumberjills at IPR's Booth 1203 at Origins Game Fair June 19-22 in Columbus, OH - or at IPR right now!

@junobeach.bsky.social This is a *phenomenal* campaign. I was deeply moved by this spontaneous gift & am grateful to know about Frank & how we're connected. We make historical games about women serving in WW2! If you're ever looking for a connection in immersive experience design, pls ping us!

Whether you want to stick it to the man (or just to your ex) hire the Old the Cold and the Bold today!

Check out the Holiday Heist bundle! In Our Last Meal, players co-create a community that has just lost a central member, and then come together to share one last meal with them. An easy-access big feels dinner party larp for 3-8 people.

Our Last Meal, Mo's home larp about food, love and complicated grief is available in the Holiday Heist bundle - it's such a steal of a deal that it's CRIMINAL! itch.io/b/2798/holid...

Thanks to our generous Lumberjill Benefactor @jenkatwrites.bsky.social a War Birds Kiva Loan has been sent to Amal - a sewist and Syrian refugee sheltering in Jordan. Because of good timing we were able to get a Kiva partner to double the impact of Jen's generosity! www.kiva.org/lend/2857503

Today is the end of the campaign! Lumberjills closes at noon EST. Last chance to be a backer! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unr...

Just 24 hours left! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unr...

With 48 hours left, Lumberjills is funded and $1,812 away from reaching the first stretch goal! Because Lumberjills in the woods is extra magical, it lets us hire someone to make the dance card generator work while offline. www.kickstarter.com/projects/unr...

So yesterday I talked about racial diversity in Lumberjills, and today I'm doing a thread on telling queer stories with the game. First we need to talk about history games vs. historical fantasy games. A very long 🧵...

The awesome @genesisoflegend.bsky.social started a thread a few days ago to dig into why Lumberjills might not be funding as fast as expected. Somebody mentioned that the campaign read as offputtingly white and heteronormative - so I wanted to talk about that.

Shout out to one of our Lumberjills backers: Annie Norman of Bad Squiddo Games. She hosts the largest collection of minis of the bad ass women of history, fantasy & the future. Check out these Jills and her whole WWII collection - so amazing! badsquiddogames.com/shop

Fall in love with history all over again with Lumberjills! A game where romance and friendship blooms among the forests of Scotland in WWII. Find your true capacity! Choose your own destiny! Be loved. #lumberjills www.kickstarter.com/projects/unr...

We love @widdledragon.bsky.social 's dedication to the cause!

Escape into a world of coziness and camaraderie with Lumberjills! Know someone who could use a joyful, heartwarming game of friendship, romance and self-discovery? Please share the campaign with them! #lumberjills www.kickstarter.com/projects/unr...

Friendship is the heartwood of our Lumberjills game! Join these extraordinary women as they discover their strength, capacity and beauty together! 🌞💪🙌🏕️ #Lumberjills www.kickstarter.com/projects/unr...

Looking for a game that's equal parts heartwarming and historic? Lumberjills delivers! Dive into a world of romance, resilience, and remarkable women. 🌲🪓💞 #Lumberjills www.kickstarter.com/projects/unr...

And of course, this wouldn't be a War Birds game if we didn't point out that in Scotland there was a wide variety of women hard at work doing home front service alongside the Lumberjills.

Yesterday we posted about the Canadian Forestry Corps, and today we'll do the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit (NOFU)! But isn't Newfoundland part of Canada? Not in WWII it wasn't!

@widdledragon.bsky.social has come up with the most delightfully nerdy concept: fanart of characters she's played (or designed) from other games who are getting their romance on by playing the Lumberjills larp! I love it, it's rpgs all the way down.

Want to read about the Lumberjills? They are fascinating and the NYT wrote a great article about them. www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/w... If only there was a indie 4-person larp currently kickstarting about them.

One of the reasons Canadian designer Moyra Turkington was excited to write Lumberjills was because of the Canadian connection! Many Lumberjills found futures in Canada as War Brides after falling in love with Canadian men in the lumber camp dances. Let's talk about The Sawdust Fusiliers!

The BBC also has a great piece about the Lumberjills www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/61... in case anyone is looking to learn more, before backing @warbirds.bsky.social kickstarter!

In 2014, while planning the War Birds anthology, I came across this image of Cicely Clark 😍💜✨and immediately fell in love with the Women's Timber Corps. There was almost no info accessible about them back then. 🧵 www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-...

One of the joys of doing a crowdfunding campaign is reading the testimonials of your past playtesters, and getting to reminisce over specific runs of the game. This run was unique and delightful in many ways!

For the evening crowd! My larp Lumberjills went live on Kickstarter today. It is a deeply joyful, wholesome feel-good game about those who served in the Women's Timber Corps in WWII. Find out how phenomenal you are! #lumberjills www.kickstarter.com/projects/unr...

One more thing you need to know about Lumberjills: It's launching today at noon! Come shout timber with me! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unr... #lumberjills

Today's one thing about Lumberjills: It's a game that challenges the notion that conflict & scarcity is the best/only way to create fruitful narrative tension in rpgs. Instead, abundance, scaffolded support & the promise of success invites players to find it in their choices.

Today's one thing about Lumberjills: It has custom techniques that are built to let players feel physically competent without needing to be. Our lumberjill characters discover they are capable of more than they ever imagined. #lumberjills tinyurl.com/lumberjills-ks

Today's thing you should know about Lumberjills: It's a gateway larp! Tabletop players curious about live action games and first time roleplayers have described it as being fun, easy to access, & effective at building up their player skills. #lumberjills tinyurl.com/lumberjills-ks

Today's thing to know about Lumberjills: It's well baked! At 10 years in the making, it has been playtested extensively and runs like a dream! Come to the woods! #lumberjills tinyurl.com/lumberjills-ks

Posting one thing a day about Lumberjills until launch! Today: It has a big, joyful, blue-skies, feel-good vibe. Make friends, flirt, feel strong, and be free! Players often tell us they feel like they're floating after they have played. 💜 #lumberjills tinyurl.com/lumberjills-ks

Kickstarting in April 2024! Lumberjills is a live action roleplaying game about the women of the WWII Women’s Timber Corps. Fell giant trees, make lifelong friendships & find your dance cards forever full! Find out how phenomenal you are. #lumberjills tinyurl.com/lumberjills-ks

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