SPRIGS & KINDLING
A free digital Carved from Brindlewood anthology of community collected creative works
Volume 1: October 2024
First Volume
Volume 2: February 2025
The Between
Volume 3: April 2025
Sex, love, and obsession
Volume 4:1 SEPTEMBER 2025
Public Access & Other Analog Oddities
Volume 4:2 SEPTEMBER 2025
Public Access Lost Transmissions
Volume 6: Winter 2026
Endings &
Beginnings
Writing in Progress
Submission Due Date: Dec 1, 2025
Appx Release Date: Jan 31, 2026
Volume 7: Spring 2026
Gods & Monsters
(The Silt Verses and Arkham Herald)
Actively Seeking Submissions
Submission Due Date: Mar 1, 2026
Appx Release Date: Apr 30, 2026
Volume 8: Summer 2026
Short-Form
CfB Games
Actively Seeking Submissions
Submission Due Date: Jun 1, 2026
Appx Release Date: Jul 31, 2026
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If you are interested in contributing or being involved contact Amanda (discord @iamatrex)
or email (sprigsandkindling at gmail).
This is a volunteer zine, but you keep full rights to your submitted work and can publish it anywhere else. We especially encourage newcomers to TTRPG writing to join in–our team of experienced writers are here to help bring your ideas to the table!
Sprigs & Kindling is not affiliated with The Gauntlet, Jason Cordova,
Hedgemaze Press, or Jesse Ross but is published with permission.
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Resources
Plain Text and Affinity Publisher Mystery and Playbook Templates
Free use for indie projects! Please credit Sprigs & Kindling
S&K The Between Playbooks
Columns to copy and paste into your character keeper
S&K The Between Unscenes
A tab to copy into your character keeper
Randomly links to a website of one of our contributors!
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Editing Team
Amanda Mullins
Editor-in-Chief.
RPG Maven,
Data Wrangler,
Harbinger of Joy.
Alexander Thomas Guy Coursolle
Chief Layout Artist.
Tess Chappell
Design Consultant.
Lover of design, photography, musicals, folk fests and Sailor Moon.
Rebecca Hall
Chief Copy Editor.
Queer, disabled Jew. Historian, aerial artist, voracious reader.
J. Carter (Orthopraxy)
Deputy Editor.
Writer, hiker, and teacher from the Beaver Hills in Treaty Six Territory.
Arthur Wells
Layout Artist.
Actual Player, TTRPG Designer, Open for Design/Layout Commission.
Contributing Editors
Darren Brockes
Writing instructor studying education and reading games.
Kim Dalton
GM, Actor, Ecdysiast. Lover of Showtunes and Shakespeare.
Jack Hargreaves
Game Designer, Graphics Artist, Consultant.
Chaotic Jamgochian
Game Designer and Consultant, Carved from Brindlewood Archivist.
Adam Laforet
(Fenris-77)
Teacher, Game Designer, Jester.
Mike Martens
Writer, graphic designer.
Gabe McCormick
Public school educator and game facilitator based in greater Boston.
Raymond Rich
Brian Sago
Art teacher and award-winning TTRPG developer.
Gabriel Robinson
Game designer, writer, strange herald of forest and tide.
Jesse Ross
Game creator and artist.
Michael Van Vleet
Writing type person.
Support our Contributors
Samantha Amberg
Artist, Creative Consultant, TTRPG Lover.
P.K. Ashur
Proud trans traditional watercolor artist. Over 30 years of immersing themselves in RPGs, CCGs, and board games.
Bjorn Ove Asprem
Norwegian TTRPG Game designer and GM.
Bartosz N (bartosso)
Sentient biped, French-to-Polish translator, founder of the SPIRAL.
Irving Benitez (jellyfishlines)
TTRPG designer, Actual Player, AP podcast host, podcast co-host, and writer.
Justen Bennett
TTRPG player, occassonal GM, and sometimes writer.
Ben Bisogno
Actor, Writer, Artist.
Sarah Bolling
Writer, editor, designer.
Devin R Bruce
Singer, Speech-pathologist, citizen, making things stranger since 1979.
Evan Bucholz
Game designer.
Megan Caldwell
Writer, TTRPG designer, author, and definitely a mermaid.
Chainsaw_ Witch
Horror Writer.
Meredith Collins
Writer, GM, player and supporter of indie TTRPGs for all ages.
Jason Cordova
Founder of The Gauntlet, creator of Brindlewood Bay and The Between, head of Gauntlet publishing.
Corey Davies
Designer in the UK developing games and third party modules for narrative and OSR games.
Peter DeCraene
RPG player for 40+ years; forever GM and loving it. D&D, Ars Magica, The Between.
dión
Michael Dürr
Writer, Kpop stan and ttrpg enthusiast.
enui
Charlie Etheridge-Nunn
Friend to sharks, writer of comics, games journalism and occasionally RPGs.
Pat Eyler
Player, GM, Cartographer, Writer, Grandpa.
Rob Fletcher
Mountain Goth, Software Engineer, Indie TTRPG Creator.
Tess Fowler
Artist.
Amanda Lee Franck
Artist and Game Writer.
Wes Franks
Horror, TTRPGs, and Professional Wrestling. Designer, Podcaster, and Writer.
Thursday Garreau
Game designer and actual play GM.
Cassidy Hadlock
RPG enjoyer and writer, needlecraft and sewing enthusiast.
Sydney Hawkins
TTRPG Writer, AP Performer, Pro-GM, Teacher, and Snack Enthusiast.
Julius Hennig
Casual game designer and, equally important, bird nerd.
Dominic Hladek
TTRPG writer and designer from Germany.
Aaron Hollander
Religion scholar, educator, peacebuilder, goofy dad, 30-year TTRPG veteran.
Julia Kartes
Writer of all sorts of things, solo TTRPG designer, vampire enthustiast.
Katrina Kizenbaha
Latvian Artist, Designer, Maker, and Software Developer.
Tomboi LaCroix
Queer Shitposter and Joker of All Trades.
Bran Lavigne
Queer game and layout designer. Hailing from the haunted woods and cragged shorelines of New England.
Nicolas le Vif
Full-time game designer (3 published games with great success in France), pro illustrator when not designing games.
MW Lindberg
Author of queer queer fiction, Storyteller/Keeper, Likely Hidden Traitor
Billy Lingar
TTRPG player/writer/editor, video gamer, wannabe voiceover artist.
Kevin Macku
Writer, actor, cat dad.
Marc Majcher
Game designer, performer, maker, and teacher.
Ben Mansky
Game Designer, Layout Artist, Science Consultant.
Blaine Martin
Podcaster and game designer in the Philadelphia area. Creator and co-producer of AP podcast Greetings from Stability..
Zoheb Mashiur
RPG designer. Co-creator of AP podcast Desperate Attune.
Matt McLane
Just a nerd from Michigan.
Lynne M. Meyer
Award-winning queer, autistic, chronically ill femme TTRPG editor, writer, consultant, editor at Paizo and fierce advocate for inclusive games.
Brian Miranda
Game Designer.
David Morrison
Player of games and freelance RPG writer.
B Narr
Multi-award-winning actor, horror writer, TTRPG designer, and AP performer.
J Evan Parks
Writer and Master Duelist. Thinking too hard about things.
Levi Phipps
Semi-pro ttrpg writer, semi-retired AP performer.
Clinton Pong
(Dr Mirabilis)
Amateur game designer, weekly TTRPG keeper.
Daniel Qualls
Social Science Education Professor & CfB enthusiast.
RAPIDPUNCHES
Artist.
Tristan Real
RPG fan and newfound writer. Roman History MA.
Niamh Reilly
Artist.
Rica (Riciehmon)
A queer and AuDHD nerd and vampire lover from Germany. Hobby writer, artist and passionate ttrpg player/dm. Parent of two cats. Social worker/carer.
Nicolas Ronvel (Gulix)
French translator and game designer who doesn't like to prep.
Alex Rybitski
Game designer, editor, and consultant. All-purpose idea monkey.
Natascha Safarik (Tintenfuchs)
Calligraphy artist.
salty
TTRPG designer, Actual Player with Desperate Attune.
Briar Sovereign
Queer game designer, writer, and podcaster. Fascinated with romance, giant robots, and messy violence.
STEPH INFECTION
Transgender TTRPG Designer and pro GM. The chick that writes about living meat.
Erik Stuteville
Queer nerd, aspiring actual player and TTRPG writer (who has written basically nothing). Find me on Discord as dreamer529.
Sean Tibbitts
Former librarian, current data analyst and writer.
Michaelangelo Trueblood
Illustrator and aspiring TTRPG writer/designer.
Mads C. Turley
TTRPG player/facilitator/writer and voice actor based on the East Coast USA.
Vyn Vox
Voice Actor, TTRPG Personality, CEO of VtM Rot.
Alton W
AND
Tony "Knives" A.
Amanita
Arrianna Abraham
Jackson Adams
Russell Anderson
Malek Annabi
Rafa Arruda
Noah Ban
Hank Belanger
Scott C. Bourgeois
Brendan (Khaytra)
Eric Brunsell
Sara Campos-Silvius
Chai
Benjamin Cowley
Curt Crane
Jim Crocker
Rafal Cupial
Kirk Damato
Josh Domanski
Leigh Eldridge
Sasha Erfanian
ErinTheRed
Mike Ferdinando
Chris Finik
Jeremy Gaines
Valentin Gerber
G. F. Greco
hurmly
Lisa Imbryk
Rachel Jamison
Rhyme Jansen
Jazy
Ken Jeffers
Igor Juraszewski
Alexander Kerber
Andrea Klassen
Lukas Kristjanson
Kuroda
Llama
lovelyzoo
Mags Maenad
Warren McDonald
Natalia Montgomery
Scout Munroe
Dori Murdock
Drew Murter
Jeremy Novak
Salty Nick
Lon Prater
Tom Proctor
Susan Quintana
Mike Raichelson
Kim Riek
Blake Ryan
Rory of Ynn
Hendri Schrueder
shaed
Aaron Sinner
Bex Sleap-Ireland
slvrrrrrby
James Smith
Clint Smith
WD Smith
Bambi Sroka
Arkadiusz Stefański
AJ Summers
Cameron Summers
Thradis
Thwalee
Katrin Umlauft
Wawoozle
Whiletruefork
Nova Wurmson
Ryan Zenith
Bartlomiej Zwolinski
Contact Us
sprigsandkindling at gmail
This page is managed by Amanda / iamatrex