Sean Tibbitts
@pizzoc.bsky.social
Data analyst and writer on the side.
In my fruitless search, I see the casket under a bush. Inside is a hare, which gives birth to a duck, which lays an egg, which cracks open & reveals a needle. I know my fairy tales—this is the death of someone immortal. The needle bends, then breaks between my fingers. Koshchei is deathless no more.
It's not until you've bundled inside, stomped ice from boots and burned lips on hot chocolate, that you realize you lost your necklace out there in the drifts. You suit back up, search in the waning light, but the necklace remains lost. What do you find instead?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
In my fruitless search, I see the casket under a bush. Inside is a hare, which gives birth to a duck, which lays an egg, which cracks open & reveals a needle. I know my fairy tales—this is the death of someone immortal. The needle bends, then breaks between my fingers. Koshchei is deathless no more.
We finished playtesting my KPop Demon Hunters–inspired playbook and Threat for The Between last night and now I'm super sad we aren't playing a whole campaign with these characters.
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
We finished playtesting my KPop Demon Hunters–inspired playbook and Threat for The Between last night and now I'm super sad we aren't playing a whole campaign with these characters.
goddammit
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 PM
goddammit
"how did you get into ttrpgs"
I didn't get into ttrpgs, they got into me. Like a fungus, blooming inside me, filling the chambers of my heart and the alveoli in my lungs. Sadly, the infection only continues to spread.
I didn't get into ttrpgs, they got into me. Like a fungus, blooming inside me, filling the chambers of my heart and the alveoli in my lungs. Sadly, the infection only continues to spread.
I could feel the creature curling inside me like a worm. I could feel them sucking the vitality from my limbs, a great many maggots stuck in the swollen meat of my belly.
"how did you get into ttrpgs"
The moment I was born, TTRPGs pinned my shadow to the earth with a large brass nail and tore it from me. This is my first memory, the seed of many hours of therapy to come.
The moment I was born, TTRPGs pinned my shadow to the earth with a large brass nail and tore it from me. This is my first memory, the seed of many hours of therapy to come.
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"how did you get into ttrpgs"
I didn't get into ttrpgs, they got into me. Like a fungus, blooming inside me, filling the chambers of my heart and the alveoli in my lungs. Sadly, the infection only continues to spread.
I didn't get into ttrpgs, they got into me. Like a fungus, blooming inside me, filling the chambers of my heart and the alveoli in my lungs. Sadly, the infection only continues to spread.
I just remembered that I wrote my first TTRPG-related piece in March of this year. Now it feels like I've been doing it forever and it hasn't even been nine months! Special thanks to @iamatrex.com for creating space in this hobby for people like me, and to everyone else who has lent a helping hand.
November 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I just remembered that I wrote my first TTRPG-related piece in March of this year. Now it feels like I've been doing it forever and it hasn't even been nine months! Special thanks to @iamatrex.com for creating space in this hobby for people like me, and to everyone else who has lent a helping hand.
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Writers! Particularly TTRPG writers, but anyone comfortable with fantasy: The Gauntlet Pitch Day is coming December 6th!
Details at the link below.
www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pitch-day.html
Details at the link below.
www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pitch-day.html
Pitch Day
Pitch Day: The Great Forest We’re taking pitches for our upcoming game, The Lands Remaining ! Pitch Day will be December 6th, 2025. There will be three different Zoom calls you can join to make...
www.gauntlet-rpg.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Writers! Particularly TTRPG writers, but anyone comfortable with fantasy: The Gauntlet Pitch Day is coming December 6th!
Details at the link below.
www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pitch-day.html
Details at the link below.
www.gauntlet-rpg.com/pitch-day.html
AAAAAAAAH IT'S ALL HAPPENING
Happy Friday! We're getting hyped for an upcoming project, looking to crowdfund physical copies in March 2026! That's right, we're getting MORE (unofficial)TROPHY! In partnership with @jesseross.com and @pemetawe.bsky.social, with a stellar list of writers! #TrophyTTPRG #Trophy #TTRPG
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
AAAAAAAAH IT'S ALL HAPPENING
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Realis is coming sooner than you think! Sign up to be notified at launch when the print edition of @austinwalker.bsky.social's TTRPG goes live in 2026, and start bracing yourself for all the additional art, player options, and GM resources being added to the game: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Coming soon: Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
www.kickstarter.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Realis is coming sooner than you think! Sign up to be notified at launch when the print edition of @austinwalker.bsky.social's TTRPG goes live in 2026, and start bracing yourself for all the additional art, player options, and GM resources being added to the game: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
(Note: While this is true in the mundane sense, in the alchemical sense any two sufficiently similar stones can be made to *act* identical. This is the basis for the “answerable,” the communications device that has knit our Eternal & Most Serene Republic together for millennia against mighty odds.)
The thing about stones is you will never find two the same. You try; searching sandy shores, mossy caves, and volcanic peaks, but there is always variation in texture, shape, gradation, and history. What are some of the jewels (literal or not) of your collection?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
(Note: While this is true in the mundane sense, in the alchemical sense any two sufficiently similar stones can be made to *act* identical. This is the basis for the “answerable,” the communications device that has knit our Eternal & Most Serene Republic together for millennia against mighty odds.)
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Cloudflare is down, but you can still download and read Sprigs & Kindling! We have 5 free anthology volumes of Carved from Brindlewood and Trophy TTRPG supplements, including essays, art, and mysteries!
sprigsandkindling.com
sprigsandkindling.com
Sprigs and Kindling
An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games
sprigsandkindling.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Cloudflare is down, but you can still download and read Sprigs & Kindling! We have 5 free anthology volumes of Carved from Brindlewood and Trophy TTRPG supplements, including essays, art, and mysteries!
sprigsandkindling.com
sprigsandkindling.com
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cover i painted for an unpublished Trophy adventure
November 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
cover i painted for an unpublished Trophy adventure
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it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
Paralyzed! By Imposter Syndrome
— title of my memoirs
— title of my memoirs
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Paralyzed! By Imposter Syndrome
— title of my memoirs
— title of my memoirs
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I hate to do this considering The Everything, but overdraft fees have made it so that I only have about $10 to my name.
So if I could get a hand making it to Thursday, i would be incredibly grateful.
ko-fi.com/leviphipps
So if I could get a hand making it to Thursday, i would be incredibly grateful.
ko-fi.com/leviphipps
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November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I hate to do this considering The Everything, but overdraft fees have made it so that I only have about $10 to my name.
So if I could get a hand making it to Thursday, i would be incredibly grateful.
ko-fi.com/leviphipps
So if I could get a hand making it to Thursday, i would be incredibly grateful.
ko-fi.com/leviphipps
I wrote a first draft of a mini-incursion for Trophy Gold this week, and it occurs to me that creating TTRPG modules and content would be way easier if I had a game designer's brain instead of the brain I have
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I wrote a first draft of a mini-incursion for Trophy Gold this week, and it occurs to me that creating TTRPG modules and content would be way easier if I had a game designer's brain instead of the brain I have
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TTRPG pitch: Reverse Delta Green where you are shapeshifting undercover alien spies working for a benevolent intergalactic government doomed to go mad containing humans and the various insanities of human life from escaping earth.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
TTRPG pitch: Reverse Delta Green where you are shapeshifting undercover alien spies working for a benevolent intergalactic government doomed to go mad containing humans and the various insanities of human life from escaping earth.
My dog woke me up early to go outside. I was annoyed at first, but a couple minutes after we got back in the heavens opened and torrential rain descended. So now I get to sit here at the dining room table, writing and listening to the rain.
November 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
My dog woke me up early to go outside. I was annoyed at first, but a couple minutes after we got back in the heavens opened and torrential rain descended. So now I get to sit here at the dining room table, writing and listening to the rain.
I start with an intricate mycelial web that binds the new topsoil of the entire asteroid together. I have grand plans for soaring redwoods and megafauna, but I get distracted and come back to find a fungal paradise. People start calling it “The Mushroom Planet”—maddening because it’s an asteroid.
When terraforming an asteroid, you have a blank slate to build a tiny new world. Later, low-income orbital housing will be built here, or community homes for interplanetary travel, but first you have control. What flora and fauna do you coax to life on this rock?
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
#TinyTalesTuesday #WritingPrompt
November 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I start with an intricate mycelial web that binds the new topsoil of the entire asteroid together. I have grand plans for soaring redwoods and megafauna, but I get distracted and come back to find a fungal paradise. People start calling it “The Mushroom Planet”—maddening because it’s an asteroid.
Back on my bullshit part 2 (pitching my TTRPG fanfic to Sprigs & Kindling)
Back on my bullshit (writing fanfiction about side characters from a TTRPG)
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Back on my bullshit part 2 (pitching my TTRPG fanfic to Sprigs & Kindling)
Back on my bullshit (writing fanfiction about side characters from a TTRPG)
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Back on my bullshit (writing fanfiction about side characters from a TTRPG)
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A quick highlight of some of the awesome stuff in this issue in the thread below!
I was busy doing things on my very favourite day of the year and forgot to promo this but VOLUME 5 of Sprigs & Kindling is OUT! HUGE thanks to our team for working so hard to get this done for Halloween!!!
Trick-or-Treat, it's TROPHY!
sprigsandkindling.com
Trick-or-Treat, it's TROPHY!
sprigsandkindling.com
Sprigs and Kindling
An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games
sprigsandkindling.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A quick highlight of some of the awesome stuff in this issue in the thread below!
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I have two pieces in this issue! The first, 'Ware the Witch, is a short story set in the world of Trophy, and the second, Into the Wildwood, is a Trophy Dark incursion inspired by Over the Garden Wall.
So excited to read everyone else's contributions as well—there's over 200 pages of content here!
So excited to read everyone else's contributions as well—there's over 200 pages of content here!
I was busy doing things on my very favourite day of the year and forgot to promo this but VOLUME 5 of Sprigs & Kindling is OUT! HUGE thanks to our team for working so hard to get this done for Halloween!!!
Trick-or-Treat, it's TROPHY!
sprigsandkindling.com
Trick-or-Treat, it's TROPHY!
sprigsandkindling.com
Sprigs and Kindling
An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games
sprigsandkindling.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I have two pieces in this issue! The first, 'Ware the Witch, is a short story set in the world of Trophy, and the second, Into the Wildwood, is a Trophy Dark incursion inspired by Over the Garden Wall.
So excited to read everyone else's contributions as well—there's over 200 pages of content here!
So excited to read everyone else's contributions as well—there's over 200 pages of content here!
I have two pieces in this issue! The first, 'Ware the Witch, is a short story set in the world of Trophy, and the second, Into the Wildwood, is a Trophy Dark incursion inspired by Over the Garden Wall.
So excited to read everyone else's contributions as well—there's over 200 pages of content here!
So excited to read everyone else's contributions as well—there's over 200 pages of content here!
I was busy doing things on my very favourite day of the year and forgot to promo this but VOLUME 5 of Sprigs & Kindling is OUT! HUGE thanks to our team for working so hard to get this done for Halloween!!!
Trick-or-Treat, it's TROPHY!
sprigsandkindling.com
Trick-or-Treat, it's TROPHY!
sprigsandkindling.com
Sprigs and Kindling
An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games
sprigsandkindling.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I have two pieces in this issue! The first, 'Ware the Witch, is a short story set in the world of Trophy, and the second, Into the Wildwood, is a Trophy Dark incursion inspired by Over the Garden Wall.
So excited to read everyone else's contributions as well—there's over 200 pages of content here!
So excited to read everyone else's contributions as well—there's over 200 pages of content here!
omg!
🩸 Laissez Couler le Bon Sang 🩸
#COMEONIN hits crowdfunding October 2026 in partnership with @plusoneexp.bsky.social.
Thanks to @scragend.bsky.social for this fantastic cover.
#trrpg #horror #carvedfrombrindlewood
#COMEONIN hits crowdfunding October 2026 in partnership with @plusoneexp.bsky.social.
Thanks to @scragend.bsky.social for this fantastic cover.
#trrpg #horror #carvedfrombrindlewood
October 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
omg!