Category: Blog
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Matchmakers – a combat optional D&D season
The Premise A politically powerful NPC is in need of a marriage – and fast! The PCs must quest around the world, guided by a ledger of suitable suitors, to seek out the best match for the NPC. This campaign premise is entirely combat-optional and works in any setting. It helps introduce players to your…
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House Rules to jazz up your games of Codenames
If you are anything like me and my friends, you have spent the last year going through a cycle of being obsessed with a new game and then quickly becoming bored of it because you played it to death (because there is nothing else to do). The most recent game whose novelty has almost worn…
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Woman Game Masters in Scotland
I was delighted to be part of panel on Women Game Masters for International Women’s Day with the wonderful Catherine Wilson. We chatted about feminist world building and storytelling, table etiquette, and system hacks. The recording of this will go up soon on GEAS’s YouTube page. In the meantime, we wanted to keep the discussion…
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7 LGBT Women in STEM you should know about
This blog was origionally published here: https://www.lgbthistory.org.uk/blog/2021/lgbt-women-in-stem/ February is LGBT History Month. One of LGBT History Month Scotland’s themes this year is Unsung People – reveal unheard stories of LGBTQ+ life. So, to celebrate LGBT History Month we’ve put together a blog of the 7 LGBT women in STEM you should know. Women face inequality in…
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Glasgow Women’s Library Slam winner!
I am very excited to share that I have won the Glasgow Women’s Library Slam. The theme of the slam was Elemental Women, so the first round was for a poem inspired by that theme. I chose to write about mermaids – you can watch the video of my poem A Mermaid Returns to the…
Jenny Lester 