SPRIGS & KINDLING

A digital Carved from Brindlewood fan-zine of community collected creative works

Volume 1: October 2024


Volume 2: February 2025
The Between


Volume 3: Spring 2025
Sex, love, and obsession

In Progress.
Appx Release Date: April 30, 2025




Volume 4: Summer 2025
Public Access & Other Analog Oddities

Actively Seeking Submissions
Submission Due Date: Jul 1, 2025

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

Actively Seeking Submissions
Submission Due Date: Oct 1, 2025


If you are interested in contributing please fill out this form.
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 is here to help bring your ideas to the table!

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


Sprigs & Kindling is not affiliated with The Gauntlet or Jason Cordova, but is published with permission.

Resources

Plain Text and Affinity Publisher Mystery and Playbook Templates
Free use for indie projects! Please credit Sprigs & Kindling


S&K Playbooks
Columns to copy and paste into your character keeper

Editing Team

Amanda Mullins

Editor-in-Chief.
RPG Maven,
Data Wrangler,
Harbinger of Joy.

Alexander Thomas Guy Coursolle

Layout Artist.

Tess Chappell

Design Consultant.
Lover of design, photography, musicals, folk fests and Sailor Moon.

Rebecca Hall

Copy Editor and Contributor.
Queer, disabled Jew. Historian, aerial artist, voracious reader.

Kim Dalton

Editor.
GM, Actor, Ecdysiast. Lover of Showtunes and Shakespeare.

Jack Hargreaves

Editor and Contributor.
Game Designer, Graphics Artist, Consultant.

Chaotic Jamgochian

Editor and Contributor.
Game Designer and Consultant, Carved from Brindlewood Archivist.

Mike Martens

Editor and Contributor.
Writer, graphic designer.

Gabe McCormick

Editor and Contributor.
Public school educator and game facilitator based in greater Boston.

Michael Van Vleet

Editor and Contributor.
Writing type person.


Support our Contributors

Samantha Amberg

Artist, Creative Consultant, TTRPG Lover.

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.

J. Carter (Orthopraxy)

Writer, hiker, and teacher from the Beaver Hills in Treaty Six Territory.

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. Half-elf Cleric/Ranger, Criamon, The Mother. Favorite die: d12.

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 Hawkings

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.

Ken Jeffers

Toronto-based 35+ year GM and TTRPG player, massive life long Horror devotee, booster and fan of all things Trophy, CFB and Gauntlet. New games in the pipeline!

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. Recent graduate of The Mike Martens School of Margins. 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..

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.

Blaine Martin

Podcaster and game designer in the Philadelphia area. Creator and co-producer of Greetings from Stability, a worldbuilding actual play podcast about a spooky island town in the Pacific Northwest.

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.

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.

Raymond Rich

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.

Brian Sago

Art teacher and award-winning TTRPG developer.

salty

TTRPG designer, Actual Player with Desperate Attune.

Briar Sovereign

Queer game designer, writer, and podcaster. Fascinated with romance, giant robots, and messy violence.

Bambi Sroka

Unnatural Disaster

Arkadiusz Stefański

Polish Horror devotee with a soft spot for haunted houses. Actual Player, Occasional GM. Lover of Photography, TTRPGs, and Sports. Psychologist by day, aspiring writer and video gamer by night.

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.

Arthur Wells

Actual Player, TTRPG Designer, Open for Design/Layout Commission.

AND

Jackson Adams

Hank Belanger

Brendan (Khaytra)

Curt Crane

Sasha Erfanian

ErinTheRed

Mike Ferdinando

G. F. Greco

Rhyme Jansen

Jazy

Christopher Newell

Jeremy Novak

Salty Nick

Bex Sleap-Ireland

Aaron Sinner

James Smith

Clint Smith

AJ Summers

Katrin Umlauft

Thradis

Ryan Zenith

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