Randy Lubin
Hi – I'm Randy Lubin (he / him), a game designer who loves making and playing storytelling games! Most of my games are lightweight and designed for one or two hours of play. My studio is Diegetic Games and most of my games are available under a creative commons license.
I also have a consulting firm, Leveraged Play. You can hire me to design and runs serious games that explore the future and explain the present. Clients include conferences, think tanks, leadership teams, and more.
Featured Games
A collaborative mystery game where you uncover evidence, narrow down suspects, and catch the culprit.
Role Playing
A Fantasy Mockumentary Game
A collaborative worldbuilding game where players use templates to build on each other's ideas and create novel stories.
Explores honor culture and toxic masculinity an old fashioned duel
Story Synth Games
An adventure to race around the realm before the summer solstice
Tell the silly stories about how aspiring heroes accept unlikely quests to earn dubious certificates.
Heroes prepare the community of Ikara for an immanent bandit attack – will they win? At what cost?
Create a monster movie parody told over six speeches
Premise Games
A collaborative worldbuilding game where players use templates to build on each other's ideas and create novel stories.
Collaboratively create a series of magical artifacts
Instructions and templates for creating your own hacks of the game Premise
Foresight Games
Explore the future by walking through a neighborhood and using the sights as inspiration
Explore the consequences of a major disruption by playing organizations and influencers posting on social media
Tell the story of how a new social movement changes the world
Explore the future of peace through this quick crisis scenario
A fast and fun game about pitching fake products from the future
The tactical card game based on a real-life CIA training game.
Supplements, Remixes, and Hacks
A plot guide for Galactic 2e
A Silicon Valley Farce
A collaborative storytelling game for Hanukkah
Game Jam Submissions
A people-watching game where you decide the fate of humanity
Earth is dying. Play as leaders of colony ships and explore how cultures diverge and evolve through dire crises.
A game about covert border crossings, played while on a hike
Tell the story of characters who abandon their values in search of power
An RPG about robots struggling to survive on an alien planet
Mechanical Musings
A look at different ways to use decks of prompts in your storytelling games
A one-pager on using nontransitive resolution in storytelling game design