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

Can you help support Amal?

Kiva is a loan, not a donation. With Kiva you can lend as little as $25 and make a big change in someone's life.

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

Women With Axes: Looking Back at World War II ‘Lumberjills’ (Published 2019)

Meet Rosie the Riveter’s British cousins.

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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!

The Women's Timber Corps: Who were the 'Lumberjills' and what did they do?

During WW2 Britain needed everyone who could help, to help! Back then women didn't fight in wars so they were asked to help in any way they could. The Women's Timber Corps were groups of women who wor...

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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-...

Miss Cicely Clark of The Women's Timber Corps at work in a timber...

Miss Cicely Clark of The Women's Timber Corps at work in a timber camp in Suffolk as part of the war effort.

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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...

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