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 5: Autumn 2025
Trick-or-Treat!
It's Trophy!


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

S&K is against the use of generative AI in creative works

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


Sprigs & Kindling Webring: Randomly links to a website of one of our contributors!

Randomly links to a website of one of our contributors!


Support US


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.

Michael Dürr

Writer, Kpop stan and ttrpg enthusiast.

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.

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.

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

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