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I love nanaimo bars, can't lie. 

I am shocked I haven't made a comment on here before about my favourite one-shot. It's a banger every single time.

Thank you!!

Added!!!

That's a great point! I'll make one when I get home from work :D

I was literally JUST reading a guide to Midwest communication and laughing at how similar it is to Canadian communication. 

Thanks for the comment :D

Hell yeah! Just read it, it's great!

Really great work. Easy to follow, evocative, and the layout is great. Well done!

This is so entertaining. What a fun way to interpret the title and stay on theme. Kudos!

This is so entertaining. What a fun way to interpret the title and stay on theme. Kudos!

The art is really great!! Love to see handmade art. 

This was a lot of fun and you really killed it with the layout!

This layout is bonkers (compliment)

Thank you!!! I borrowed the layout from our upcoming Trophy Anthology, lmao. Tried something new with the writing too (more poetic than I usually write) :D

Please delete this if promo like this isn't okay!! We're not making money, we just wanna give people an opportunity to practice publishing :) 

Just a little promo, if that is okay?? I'm hoping to mimic this contest in the next year for CfB or Trophy specific things... but wanna get people interested :)

I'm the editor-in-chief of a volunteer zine aimed at highlighting new writers and experimental works in the Carved from Brindlewood and Trophy circles. You keep 100% of the rights to your work, so you can publish it elsewhere. We give you feedback, editing, layout, and practice at all those things. 

https://sprigsandkindling.com/

Just wanted to throw you some support and love because you are amazing and this is awesome. 

Hello fellow Trophy Dark entree!!! This was so well written and laid out. I like what you did with the moments, that was very clever. Same with the Paint the Scenes. Really well done, congrats!!!! :D

You did a great job condensing a lot of interesting hooks into a short incursion! The layout is excellent too. Great work, Michael!

The writing was an extremely pleasant surprise. Extremely well written. The layout is simple, easy to read, and thematically on point. Really excellent work, Sean!

Sorry for the late reply!! I've added more copies :D

Beautifully written and fantastically ghastly. This is going in my "need to run" pile! 

I don't know anything about Shadowdark but the layout is so clear and the flow works so well I bet I could figure out how to run it based on this entry alone! Great job!

This is very clever, and I support the princess in trying to get out of a bad date the way she did ;)

Crisp and simple, but not lacking in options, you can tell this is written by someone who is really familiar with how a dungeon crawl works. Great job! 

Big fan of the cover stories and treasures! And I'd pay good money to watch an AP where two performers do the rhyming insult battle. The art is gorgeous, the layout is great, this is crisp and even though I know nothing of Cairn I could see how this would be super easy to pick up and run! Great job! :D

"If you die in Tartarus you die in real life" and "Jandalf" got me. Excellent work, this is short, sweet, and perfect for w one shot!

This is GREAT. I can already imagine running this at my Trophy tables. Absolutely top notch work! (And so exciting to see another Trophy incursion in Appendix N!)

I was VERY nervous about getting all those roll mechanics to fit but it worked out nicely! Thank you for the compliment <3 <3

If anyone wants a download code for reviewing/rating or just because, get at me on discord (iamatrex) or bluesky (iamatrex.com) and I can send you one! :) Otherwise there are community copies available!

Send me an email at manda.mullins@gmail.com or add me on discord as iamatrex and I can send you a download code! :) 

Hi Everyone! I'm Amanda aka iamatrex. I'm in Edmonton, and I love games! I am the editor-in-chief of an ongoing anthology of creative TTRPG works called Sprigs & Kindling, a freelance TTRPG writer, and (in my regular life) a statistician :)

I'm excited to see what everyone comes up with! 

I'm going to write a Trophy Dark incursion set in Edmonton but post-apocalyptic. What if there were treasures hidden under the Muttart Conservatory? :D

This game is absolutely horrifically delightful. What a gem. Where else could I play two people dressed in a cow costume and have it not only unhinged, but also be perfectly creepy?? The Minnesota State Fair! 

In the face of infinite temporal expanses, my existence flickers fleetingly, leaving me grappling with the profound insignificance of my being. Time, an indomitable merciless spectre, slithers through my grasp, allowing me but a fleeting glimpse of the sheer miracle of my own existence before it slips into the void. Yet, amidst the desolate contemplation, there exists a profound paradox—an ephemeral moment so exquisitely poignant that it transcends the boundaries of time, an eternal essence contained within a fleeting instant. But, no, such reassurances elude me, for my existence, a mere flicker in the cosmic abyss, reduces me to a minuscule speck, lost amidst the chasm of nothingness and everything.

Good game!

I just finished adding the clues, and popped it up on the Gauntlet Publishing discord for any feedback while I think about layout. Any layout tips for someone who usually only works with statistical data? XD

I hear he wasn't even an NPC for the mystery - he just showed up. Typical Dave. 

I just backed this, and read through the first mystery in the bunch. It's going to be SO fun to play! The prompts are all excellent but I am really hyped about the NPCs. Every single one of them is someone I want to show up in a game. Even Dave. 

I can't wait for the rest of the mysteries! The summaries look great, and (selfishly) our playgroup has gotten through nearly all the other mysteries so MORE is always better :D

Haunted Observatory! Inspired by various space horror things but most especially the X-Files episode "Space" (the one where the astronaut is haunted by the face on Mars. It's great/terrible.)