Grahame @ Understory Games
I'm a nerd, podcaster, and technical editor who tinkers with board games and TTRPGs. I generally try to make games that I wish existed. I'm still figuring out game design through trial and error, but I try to find the right tools to help players tell the stories they want to tell.
You can catch my Actual Play misadventures on The Role Less Taken podcast.
I was built for a “glorious” mission, and I executed it well; I was made to bring forth Apocalypses.
A collection of people, places, and things to do for Absurdia
Survival
A collection of downtime activities for any TTRPG
A solo-journaling game about waking up alone in space.
Full Games
A hack of Clue/Cluedo about getting away with murder.
A solo-journaling game about waking up alone in space.
A Powered by Charge game about an AI and the people who help it save the community, for 2 or more players.
An RPG of survival in a post-land future.
A Carta game about hacking
A solo-journaling RPG about jumping uncontrollably through your own timeline.
A game of wandering the wasteland and building connections
A co-op time management party RPG for 3 to 5 players.
A solo-journaling (+ writing to friends) RPG meta-game about sending useful items to friends playing other games.
A 2 to 5 player business card RPG about trying to stop the apocalypse, Powered by the Apocalypse.
A business card world-building RPG for one Scribe and any number of Visiting Players.
A business card LARP in which you create Spells from business cards, then use them to shout at other players.
Role Playing
Game Supplements
I was built for a “glorious” mission, and I executed it well; I was made to bring forth Apocalypses.
MOSAIC Strict Add On
A collection of downtime activities for any TTRPG
An Orbital Blues module about helping the hottest band in the Heliosphere out of trouble.
An Orbital Blues adventure inspired by the 1963 film Charade
An AI-powered module for the Orbital Blues RPG by Soul Muppet Publishing
A survival scenario for the Cast Away RPG, powered by Carta.
A Locked Tomb fan game
Solo Games
A solo-journaling game about waking up alone in space.
A Carta game about hacking
A solo-journaling RPG about jumping uncontrollably through your own timeline.
A solo-journaling (+ writing to friends) RPG meta-game about sending useful items to friends playing other games.
Tech Demos
A Dice-based system for picking Major Arcana cards, which you can put into your games.
A Powered by Charge game about an AI and the people who help it save the community, for 2 or more players.
An Uno Card-based RPG System
A spreadsheet-based team vs team RPG about launching massive, powerful attacks to claim a planetoid
A creative party game about marketing the Apocalypse, in which your creativity cannot save you.
Business Card Games
A 2 to 5 player business card RPG about trying to stop the apocalypse, Powered by the Apocalypse.
A business card LARP in which you create Spells from business cards, then use them to shout at other players.
Role Playing
A business card world-building RPG for one Scribe and any number of Visiting Players.
Orbital Blues Mixtape
An Orbital Blues module about helping the hottest band in the Heliosphere out of trouble.
An Orbital Blues adventure inspired by the 1963 film Charade
An AI-powered module for the Orbital Blues RPG by Soul Muppet Publishing
Locked Tomb Fan RPGs
A Firebrands hack based on Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
A playbook for Thirsty Sword Lesbians
A playbook for Thirsty Sword Lesbians
a rules-lite ttrpg about necromancers and sword-duelists and emotional bonds
A 2-player ttrpg about the bond between a necromancer and a swordfighter.
A MonsterHearts 2 hack for the Locked Tomb series.
Knights and necromancers in an ever-crumbling but never-dying star empire.
Necromantic. Power. Fantasy. Locked Tomb Trilogy inspired, and Illuminated by LUMEN.
6 Skeletal Troika! backgrounds for people who didn't finish reading Gideon the Ninth
A Locked Tomb fan game
A Slayers RPG Supplement