Sean Tibbitts

It is! And I haven't found the bottom of it yet!

I blame @jasoncordova.bsky.social , actually. I wasn't even following him on Twitter at the time, but he posted something about monster combat in Trophy Gold that really caught my attention, which led me to Trophy, which led me to Brindlewood Bay, which led me to The Between, which...

The short-form Carved from Brindlewood game I'm writing is based on Twin Peaks, by the way. I've pitched it for Volume 8 of Sprigs & Kindling (if I can get it to cooperate before then). Pitches are currently open for three S&K issues—check out the zine below!

If anything, after editing and revising, the game has gotten even longer 😭

Writing a short-form game is hard, y'all! My current WIP is several pages too long to be called "short-form" at the moment. If only I were better at the editing and revision side of writing...

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Hey everybody, I hate to ask, but I’m putting out my hat if anyone can help. I haven’t talked about it because I didn’t want to make it a big deal but two weeks ago I had to make an emergency room visit. With the big unexpected expense, start of the month payments I’ve hit a negative balance hard

Sprigs and Kindling An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games

Sprigs & Kindling sprigsandkindling.com is actively seeking pitches:
Vol 6: Endings & Beginnings. Any Carved from Brindlewood-related creation. Due Dec 1, 2025
Vol 7: Gods & Monsters. The Silt Verses TTRPG and Arkham Herald. Due Mar 1, 2026
Vol 8: Short-form CfB. Due Jun 1, 2026

DM me with pitches!

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist): the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much. you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

YouTube video by SAYCREW DC [DANCE IN PUBLIC] SAJA BOYS 사자 보이즈 - SODA POP Cover by Saycrew Indonesia

I am still on a KPop Demon Hunters jag. This is pretty intense, moreso than my Encanto jag and much moreso than my brief Hamilton jag. It’s gotten to the point where I, a 55-year-old man, have a favorite KPop Dance Cover troupe. youtu.be/Rwo36UIFM-w?...

A man has his head thrown back as a tree erupts from his chest

Happy October! We have a Sprigs & Kindling Volume 5 cover reveal for you! This volume is themed around the TTRPG Trophy and creator @jesseross.com did the art! It's incredible!

You can check Volumes 1 to 4 of S&K here: sprigsandkindling.com

my body is a machine that turns purchased TTRPGS into unplayed TTRPGSs

This is an excellent take.

We haven't gotten to the KPDH-associated Threat yet, but so far it's been super fun! I'm playing The Vessel, and after we wrapped, my husband (who was listening from our loft) came downstairs and was like, "Did I hear that right? You did it with a fish-person?" And I was like "YES, I DID, 100%"

Had the first session of the playtest for my KPop Demon Hunters–inspired playbook and Threat for The Between this morning! Huge kudos to @likethejeans.bsky.social for jumping in and GMing, @raezee.bsky.social for inhabiting the new playbook, and @rebeccahall15.bsky.social for her hard-bitten Legacy!

Charles Xavier: My school helps mutants control their powers. This is Cyclops, he was my first student and he is totally incapable of controlling his powers. This is Jean Grey, she started with Scott. She also cannot control her powers. And meet Rogue, yep you guessed it, can't control her powers

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That looks excellent! Now I want soup

Situate design and play within the body. You are an animal, making games for other animals.

Embrace the weirdness of the body. We're snotty, hungry, leaky, horny animals that are easily frustrated, excited, and startled.

At Queerness in Games con. Watching Avery Adler's keynote

This is amazing.

if you can help me (oh my god please help me) i have a glorified tip jar patreon (ive been doing co working two hour sessions and a monthly session for questions. this month i was going to play with the story engine so people could meet it) please don’t use the app they will take 30%

Backed! This looks amazing. So glad I saw this.

I immediately went out and bought Koriko after watching this video. Haven't started it yet, but I am very excited to play it. What I can say is that the boxed set is gorgeous!

...maybe I could start with a handful of Side Characters and Locations. That sounds doable

Just rewatched "Patience" by Gilbert & Sullivan with my husband, and now I want to write some kind of content for The Between that references the Aesthetic Movement. How hard do we think that would be? I'm thinking kind of hard

I totally forgot I submitted a couple entries in the Degoya County Library D66 roll table, so I was very surprised to see my name in the list of contributors 😅

Anyway, go check out this special DOUBLE ISSUE of Sprigs & Kindling! It's chock-full of amazing creativity!

It really is that good!

Here is a hard thing to convince people of.

If you had an awesome RPG session last night?

YOU DID THAT.

Not the game. Not the designers. Not the publishers. You. You were awesome.

For many of us, that is SUPREMELY uncomfortable to even consider, and it’s easier to put the games pedestal.

I started a new short story yesterday! Got 1,600 words written on it, too. No, I still don't know what it's about

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Things are fucked for a lot of folks, but it would mean a lot to me if you’d be able to share or donate to this #GoFundMe.

This is going to help @cha0ticstupid.bsky.social, our pets, and I get a fresh start away from the epicenter of fascism. #mutualaid #donateorshare

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