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Amanda/iamatrex

@iamatrex.com
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she/her. YEG. Firepit Press. Stew Princess. I like TTRPGs and horror movies. Tell your pets I say hi! sprigsandkindling.com a "very well-adjusted and balanced individual" - Wes Franks a "strange creature of I don't know what!" - Gabe McCormick

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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 05/10/2026
Which brings me to something I think about when making games: You don’t have to explain your weird dungeon. Give the players rules they can discover, patterns they can investigate, and enough information to make meaningful decisions. They don’t necessarily need to know why the dungeon exists.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 05/10/2026
Naturally, everyone wants to know WHY. Who built the Cube? Why are they there? What is it for? Is anyone even watching? Cube gives us pieces of information, but it never seems particularly interested in giving us one big, satisfying explanation. And I really like that.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 05/10/2026
Cube figures out pretty quickly that it doesn’t actually need a trap in every room. Once you know that any room might kill you, opening a door to an apparently empty room becomes frightening all on its own. Sometimes establishing the threat is enough. Let the audience do some of the work.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 05/10/2026
One of my favourite things about Cube is how much it does with very little. Filmed using a single cube-shaped set, with different coloured panels and lighting making it feel like the characters are moving through an enormous structure. The repetition makes it MORE claustrophobic, not less.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 05/10/2026
And then there’s MATH! The numbers written at the entrances to the rooms aren’t just decoration, and figuring out what they mean becomes part of figuring out the Cube. Observe. Develop a theory. Test it. Realize you were wrong. Revise the theory. This really is a TTRPG.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 05/10/2026
And they very quickly arrive at the classic adventurer solution to “I don’t know if this room will kill me”: Throw something into it first. In this case, it’s a boot. The horror movie equivalent of “I poke the floor with my ten-foot pole.”
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 05/10/2026
This movie is basically a dungeon crawl. A group of strangers with different skills explore rooms, look for traps, try to figure out the rules, and gradually learn how badly they work together as a party. I think we’ve all played this game.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 05/10/2026
Time for another #hauntalong recommendation! Today I’m recommending Vincenzo Natali’s Cube (1997), a Canadian sci-fi horror movie about a group of strangers who wake up inside a giant maze of identical rooms. Some of the rooms are safe. Some of them are super not safe.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 21/08/2026
Got a beautiful homemade bookmark, a fun promo bookmark, and some delightful cards from @kristadb1.bsky.social today. Supporting local #YEG folks is pretty cool, friends! (you can see the corner of the latest Downhomer in this shot, gotta represent our people lmao)
Promotional postcards, bookmarks, and other printed materials for Krista D. Ball’s books spread across a wooden table. A pink floral bookmark with a purple tassel rests on top.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 23/07/2026
Ram, the Romeo in this R&J story, has a tattoo on his arm. My friend who can read it says it's the character's own initials. I'm howling.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 16/07/2026
Sprigs & Kindling, our free anthology zine of creative TTRPG works from the Carved from Brindlewood and Trophy communities is up for two ENnies. Huge shout out to our whole team of contributors, artists, and editors <3 sprigsandkindling.com
2026 Nominee Best Community Content. Sprigs & Kindling Volume 4.1. Amanda Mullins.2026 Nominee Best Free Product. Sprigs & Kindling Volumes 3-5.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 14/07/2026
Sprigs & Kindling, our little volunteer-driven zine of CfB and Trophy TTRPG works, is up for two ENnies, which is an incredible honour! Here is a sneak peek at the cover for Volume 7: Gods & Monsters by @oddoblivion.bsky.social , themed around @thesiltverses.bsky.social TTRPG and Arkham Herald.
A spooky being in front of some street lights.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 12/07/2026
okay I am home after spending a week with my parents helping my dad recover from open-heart surgery (he's improving, and everything is good!) So I wanna talk a quick bit about Sprigs & Kindling and our ennie nominations. :)
We're honestly blown away that Sprigs & Kindling has been nominated for two ENNIE Awards.

This has always been a volunteer project. The goal is simple: give new creators a place to learn the ropes of TTRPG publishing—writing, editing, layout, art, proofreading, and everything else that goes into making a book. Breaking into the industry is hard, and we've been lucky enough to watch a bunch of our contributors go on to publish professionally.

Seeing a free community zine recognized alongside so many incredible projects is pretty surreal.

If you like what we're doing and want to support a volunteer-run project that's all about helping new voices, we'd really appreciate your vote.

And whether you vote or not, thanks to everyone who's written, edited, illustrated, laid out, proofread, read, or shared Sprigs & Kindling. This nomination belongs to all of you.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 13/05/2026
because I miss the era of old internet, I built a webring into the Sprigs and Kindling website.
Sprigs & Kindling webring. It's a link that takes you to a random contributor's website!
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 13/05/2026
lmao I'm also a hater
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 16/04/2026
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 14/04/2026
a creature that instills fear
a little baby fluffy chick
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 14/04/2026
Important news: my sister has new chicks.
a fluffy baby chicken
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 06/04/2026
Still trying to find a way to combine my two favourite movies into a short form TTRPG....
John Carpenter's The ThingLegally Blonde
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 06/04/2026
Found on the internet and its about me
"i am both dumber and smarter than you think. never estimate me."
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 03/04/2026
My mystery for the Public Access TTRPG is one of the kickstarter stretch goals! Inspired by some of my favourite horror movies, it will be in the books if we hit the $430,000 USD mark! :D Back it now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...
$430,000 - Summer of the Witch

A new Mystery! The infectious jingle of the Golden Clover Summer Solstice Music Festival promises the biggest celebration of the summer in Degoya County. But when the Latchkeys receive a package from a frantic doctor whose patient was murdered, they uncover a sinister plot tied to Golden Clover’s charismatic CEO, Daniel Carpenter. As festival preparations intensify, eerie masks, unsettling townsfolk, and strange technological rituals point to something far more dangerous than a music festival. With thousands of lives at stake, the Latchkeys must uncover the truth behind the masks and stop Carpenter before the solstice celebration becomes catastrophic. Inspired by Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Midsommar, and The Wicker Man. This stretch goal will be included in Signals from the Other Side.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 02/04/2026
Thinking about my dream car.
The Nissan S-Cargo. It looks like a snail.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 31/03/2026
lmao the mods deleted it because I'm a lurker. I'll still upvote your cool things, redditors, but I'm not gonna make a bunch of useless posts just to promo my thing.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 28/03/2026
A little sneak peek at some art in progress by @oxsago.bsky.social for @signalstation.bsky.social's Trophy Gold incursion for our TTRPG anthology! Only 3.5 days left in the kickstarter! we're super close to $13,000 CAD! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...
a giant? frog peers from a steamy pedestal
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 25/03/2026
This fish at the restaurant I’m at has my energy. (Orange, big weird eyes, anxious-seeming)
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 20/03/2026
$5 hotel Pepsi lmao
It’s a Diet Pepsi. A can. Cost me $5 because I’m at a hotel
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 18/03/2026
But first, some sustenance after our terrible cab ride
A beer
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 14/03/2026
our art by @oxsago.bsky.social is still in progress but here is a little sneaky peek. It's looking AMAZING.
a colourful piece of art featuring fancy people in a ballroom, but also a little spooky!
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 07/03/2026
let's add the sand dunes in there :D
Athabasca Sand Dunes. A landscape photo of a lone person walking along a sand dune. Photo borrowed from https://www.tourismsaskatchewan.com/provincialpark/1414/athabasca-sand-dunes-provincial-park
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 13/01/2026
The Athabasca
The Athabasca river winding its way southwest of Ft McMurray. The trees are green and gold, like a painting!
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 06/01/2026
Legit, you should be reading Sprigs & Kindling (always free!) if you like Carved from Brindlewood or Trophy TTRPGs haha sprigsandkindling.com
Rusting with You on Discord says: time-travelling thatcher is genuinely one of the bes tthings s&k has ever published

(written by Ben Bisogno!)
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 30/12/2025
I'm hyped!!! ruinanthology.com
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 25/12/2025
Our dog-nephew who isn't supposed to be on the couch having a little snooze on Christmas Eve.
A bull mastiff has a little snooze. He's on a grey couch with his head on a little pillow that he pulled down specifically to rest his sad little face on. I'm not a narc so I am not telling on him for being on the couch.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 25/12/2025
the funny number of the Youths
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 25/12/2025
ignore what my shirt says
Amanda in a t shirt that says "All I want for Christmas is Halloween"
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 25/12/2025
we're almost at the funny number :D www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...
Launching Soon!
Ruin: An Anthology of One Shot Incursions for Trophy. 
A collection of 14 new incursions for Trophy Gold and Trophy Dark. 
There are 66 followers.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 20/12/2025
a great cat, all white with crossed eyes. "Don't watch all day, it'll rot your brain" says Korbin Dallas in the Fifth Element getting the TV set up for the cat
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 20/12/2025
It's been a while since I've done this, so here is your periodic reminder that this is the same guy
GIMME THE CASH
(weird hat dude from The Fifth Element)Nino from Amelie
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 12/12/2025
I didn't even have a reference pic for Rapidpunches and they knocked it out of the park. I just said "I was thinking of the Mavens you did for Michael having a little New Years Eve party, but maybe something spooky happening in the background or outside a window or something."
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 06/12/2025
and here is a cover reveal for our next volume releasing in January 2026 themed around Endings and Beginnings, with art by the amazing @rapidpunches.itch.io :D
The Murder Mavens are celebrating new years by investigating a murder. There are bloody handprints and a mysterious figure seems to be climbing outside a window!
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 03/12/2025
No surprises here lmao
My most used words: ttrpg, game, sprigs, kindling, trophy, movie, happy
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 21/11/2025
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
RUIN: an anthology of one shot Trophy incursions. 
Writers include: Sarah Bolling
Darren Brockes
J Carter
Kevin Macku
Ben Mansky
Mike Martens
Blaine C. Martin
Amanda Mullins
Gabriel Robinson
Brian Sago
Sean Tibbitts
Mads C. Turley
Michael Van Vleet
Arthur Wells

Crowdfunding in 2026!
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 24/10/2025
S&K Volume 5 is all about Trophy! The cover that @jesseross.com made for us is SICK. Everything is edited except one last incursion, layout is 78% done, and our copy editor @rebeccahall15.bsky.social is having an amazing honeymoon but will power through when she is back (she's great!) I'm excited!
a man has a tree bursting from his chest
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 21/10/2025
100) 28 Years Later (2025)
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 21/10/2025
99) Pieces (1982) Can't believe I've never seen this before!
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 20/10/2025
I don't wanna give away too much, but when thinking about your TTRPG characters remember that they carry all their history with them. All their decisions in the past, all their reactions to events, you can play around with that, and you don't have to make them heroes. They can be monsters. :D
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 20/10/2025
All wrapped up in a stylish, quirky bow
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 20/10/2025
It's a biting commentary on influencer culture mixed with the residual effects of childhood trauma.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 20/10/2025
Aisha Dee puts on an amazing performance as Sissy... I mean, Cecilia. Awkward and vulnerable, but deeply disturbed at the same time.
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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 20/10/2025
One part slasher, one part revenge story, Sissy is blackly funny and really quite gorey. (It's very Australian horror!)
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