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I'm an award-losing journalist, award-winning playwright, and award-ambivalent game designer based in Chennai (formerly Madras) . 4000+ people like it, so you might as well! I interview indie game designers and thinkers over on the Yes Indie'd Podcast. I'm particularly proud of being a contributor for New Agenda Publishing on Orun: Post Apotheosis, Afro-Inspired, Space Opera RPG and for Rowan Rook and Decard on SIN, a sourcebook for Spire.
Sangam: Academy of Poets
Blades in the Spire
For The Other City
The Magic of Names
How to Find Love and Lose the Time War!
The Ink Queen's Court (Teaser)
Faction Turn
Triptych: Art Horror TTRPG
This Ship Is No Mother
Panchatantra
Co-Op Dice Mechanics
Cities of the New Weird, Rise Up!
If you like A Long Night In The Mech Bay check out...
The Fire Flickers Between You...   - A Pilot and their Mech sit across a fire. They will die tonight.
The Bonds That Tie Us   - A GMless TTRPG about relationships
plot ARMOR   - A one-player ttrpg about the invincibility of your mecha anime PROTAGONIST, until fate claims them.
Live. Love. Die. Remember.   - An RPG of memories and mecha love
Breakup on Re-Entry   - You just discovered your lover is secretly your mech-pilot rival!
ECH0   - Peace. Kids playing in mech wreckage. A ghost. One last journey to find a final resting place.
it's been a long, long time   - a two-player game about a reunion.
Spectres of Brocken   - A tabletop roleplaying game about making friends and then years later going to war against them in giant mechs.
Beyond Reach   - a tragic letter writing mech romance
The Cloister   - A two player storytelling game about the last hour of a long journey home
Battle Scars   - An emotional RPG for 2 players about love, heartbreak, and mechs.
CROSSED / FATES   - ​A 2-player role-playing card game about destiny, conflict and facing the harm you’ve done to others
If you like I Have A Vision check out...
Session Zero: World Building Edition   - A deck based world building game
Mappa Imperium   - A World Building Print & Play Game
The Ground Itself   - A world-building game about places over time
Cozy Town   - A Sweet Community Building Game
Single Unique Power   - A Cast-Building RPG
Grasping Nettles   - a storytelling game of building a world through generations
Fear is Just a Lie   - A world-building journaling horror game  for one player.
A Year In...   - A draw-and-draw village building game
The Dungeon Game   - A small dungeon building & crawling game for kids.
Bottled Cities   - a place-building game in a jar
What Is Here?   - ‘What is Here?’ is a game about building a myth around a being through a community’s eyes.
Clowderful   - A Community-Building RPG of Cats
If you like Together We Go Design Kit check out...
Wretched & Alone SRD   - An SRD for creating journaling games.
The Suntouched Tomb   - A tomb bound by nostalgia and indulgence
24XX   - A lo-fi sci-fi RPG SRD
Tannic   - A pastoral forest adventure for old school roleplaying
Babalon's Hangover   - Bestiary for Mörk Borg by third party license
The Dark Below   - a game for exiles in the dark, where the only way out is through
Crowns RPG, OSR Fantasy   - An OSR ruleset that is compact, light, punchy, and is easily hackable
The Tusu's Mine   - Pamphlet dungeon for tabletop rpgs
Dungeon   - A dungeon nature for Wanderhome
Saffron   - DOOMCRAWL #1
Dungeonbright: an osr rpg   - an osr adventure game built for speed and compatibility
RPG Design Zine   - A How-To Zine about Tabletop RPG Design