Behold Her

Episode 7 of Behold Her highlights some amazing girls playing Dungeons & Dragons. Host Lysa Penrose (@mercyfuldm) chats with Sammy and Birdie of the D&D & Daughters podcast (@daughterdungeon), while the girls of Seattle's Lake Washington Girls Middle School D&D class and club (@ethanschoonover) interview each other. Guests also include Dr. Megan Connell (@meganpsyd), a psychologist who uses D&D to empower young women.

In Episode 6 of Behold Her, host and producer Lysa Penrose talks to MORE women on the Dungeons & Dragons team about what it's like working at Wizards of the Coast and how the team has changed since 3rd edition. Guests include Dragon Talk host Shelly Mazzanoble, Senior Art Director Kate Irwin, and Head of Licensing and Publishing Liz Schuh. The episode ends with an audio essay by Guild Adept Ginny Loveday about how leadership in the D&D Adventurers League community has changed her life.

In Episode 5 of Behold Her, host and producer Lysa Penrose talks to women on the Dungeons & Dragons team about it's like working at Wizards of the Coast, what inspires them, and what they hope to bring to the future of D&D. Guests include Game Designer Kate Welch, Art Director Emi Tanji, and Senior Creative Art Director Shauna Narcisco. The episode ends with an audio essay by w riter Ashley Warren about how D&D's Curse of Strahd and Barovia continues to touch her life.

In Episode 4 of Behold Her, host and producer Lysa Penrose talks to women and nonbinary individuals who manage and moderate tabletop RPG communities. Guests include Darcy Ross, community relations coordinator of Monte Cook Games, Brenna Noonan, brand manager of Starling Games and PolyHero Dice, and a panel of moderators of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition Facebook group (Cait Bridges, Mimsy Dorsey, June Yin Gan, Paige Leitman, Anne Thornton). The episode ends with an audio essay by Petrina Ho about how she builds a welcoming gaming community in Singapore.

In Episode 3 of Behold Her, host and producer Lysa Penrose talks to women who produce, star in, illustrate, and research live tabletop actual plays. Guests include Hadeel Al-Massari, the wizard Nejma in D&D's Trapped in the Birdcage, Kayla Cline, illustrator and SP0-R3 in Encounter Roleplay's Rise of the Dark Side, Elyssa Grant, producer of Acquisitions Incorporated's The C Team, and Hettie Rowan, the Critter Thesis Critter researching the fandom of Critical Role. The episode ends with an audio story, written and read by Shauna Nakasone, co-host of Waffle Talk, about how D&D helped her embrace her identity as a transgender woman.

In Episode 2 of Behold Her, host and producer Lysa Penrose chats with three generations of administrators and organizers of the Adventurers League, the official play campaign for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition. Guests include Claire Hoffman, the Associate Content Manager of the Adventurers League, Deb Berlin, the Vice President and Convention Coordinator for the Role Initiative, and Fenway Jones the Teen DM, the organizer of Jasper's Game Day to support suicide prevention. The episode ends with an audio story, written and read by Mysty Vander, about how a clash with kobolds gave her a spark of hope.

In Episode 1 of Behold Her, host and producer Lysa Penrose chats with Dungeons & Dragons artists and creators who share a passion for making the game more accessible and inclusive. Guests include Dani Hartel of Craft Hags, a weekly show on the D&D Twitch channel, Rose Whittaker of R-N-W.net, and Marisa Turmaine, better known as Mazzmatazz the Knit-cro-mancer. The episode ends with an audio story by TK Johnson, read by Noel Shiri of the podcast Dames and Dragons, about how their childhood love of D&D was taken away by Kentucky's satanic panic and rediscovered years later.

In this miniepisode, host and producer Lysa Penrose explains what the Behold Her Podcast is all about!