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Kavita Poduri is a queer Indian-American tabletop game designer. She likes writing at the blurry edge between sci-fi and fantasy. Her first name is pronounced कविता. Kavita's current projects include: Songs for the Dusk, a post-apocalyptic sci-fantasy Forged in the Dark game about building a better future.Clockwork, a streamlined crafting system for Forged in the Dark games available for free.Brushfire, a Forged in the Dark game of operatic military sci-fi about fighting a war that doesn't care about you (currently on informal hiatus.) Icon by @hedgemice.
Songs For The Dusk
Brushfire
Clockwork
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Faire Season   - A Dream within a Game.
Marvelous   - teen superheroes belonging outside belonging
Far From Home   - A game about immigrants and outsiders
Wanderhome (Full PDF)   - A pastoral fantasy tabletop RPG about traveling animal-folk and the way they change with the seasons.
Heaven in the Dust   - Greek tragedy in the Dustbowl. A Hadestown-inspired game of Belonging Outside Belonging
Feathers   - a slice-of-life game of fallen angels and Belonging Outside Belonging
The Glass Dream Game   - Belonging outside belonging. Building a utopia with action, thought, and games.
venture   - a game of introspective heroic fantasy.
Your Care Is...: A Wanderhome Supplement   - A collection of playbooks for Wanderhome
Venture & Dungeon   - two tabletop roleplaying games with a new perspective on the traditional high fantasy genre.
Where Magic Died   - A 3 page game of belonging outside belonging, dead magic and a tower
We, the City   - More than anyone else, YOU are the city.
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Mothership: Player's Survival Guide   - A Sci-Fi Horror RPG
Love by the Quarter Mile   - A one-page roleplaying game of fast, furious family.
Alone on a Galactic Map   - A sci-fi solo ttrpg map making game
Outward Bound   - A game of space exploration, inter-species cooperation and weird anomalies, based on the Four Points RPG System.
SOLARCRAWL   - An OSR roleplaying game of early space exploration in a fantastic solar system
Sci-Fi Random Tables   - Sci-Fi TTRPG random tables
Meteor   - Corporate Sci-Fi Tabletop RPG
24XX   - A lo-fi sci-fi RPG SRD
2400   - Lo-fi sci-fi micro RPG collection
Save the Universe   - A sci-fi adventure RPG.
VULTURES   - Simple sci-fi bounty hunter ttrpg!
PLANETAR Vol. I - Lazurith B2   - A planet for sci-fi TTRPG games.
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APOCALYPSE FRAME   - An Illuminated Mecha RPG.
Cursed Lands   - A short RPG about adventures and curses
Pilgrims Of The Nighted Path   - A Halloween Hexcrawl in South Louisiana
Apollo 47 Technical Handbook   - A quiet game of techobabble.  2022
The Date   - One Page Solo Romance
Mount Zorgoth   - A one page rpg adventure.
The Great All Hallows' Eve Procession   - An Halloween themed adventure for Old School Essential
GUN COWBOY   - A journaling game of dead outlaws.
The Museum of Mesmeric Art {Liminal Horror}   - Location supplement made for the 2022 Liminal Horror Jam
Bad Frog Bargain   - One Page RPG Adventure
Going Home Wordless: A Survival Guide to use with Tiny Things   - A solo game about difficult homecomings, precious things, and seeing what happens next. Community copies available
Loner   - Another Solo RPG Game