Have you ever wanted to get involved in running tabletop roleplaying games and thought “But I have no ideas!”? The Big Red Couch is designed to show exactly how easy it is to get from random notions that stick in your mind to playable concepts, all through the medium of the kind of casually weird spitballing that gamers engage in at the best of times. In every issue, the intrepid contributors to the Big Red Couch brave the noisome wonders of The Mystery Box to produce a randomly-selected seed idea, then return Some Time Later to share what they came up with and discuss how those concepts might work as games. If we can do it, anyone can: that’s the whole idea. Along the road, we discuss what RPG systems might work for implementing different concepts, together with reasons how or why. This frequently involves adaptation of systems from their original settings to the point where they creak under the strain.
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GenCon 2023 Day Four Report
A tale ripped from the headlines, rude villainy abounds.
When is checkout time again?
Film – Lorenzo’s_Oil (1992)
Gizmodo.com article on GenCon 2023 Card Theft
Urban Shadows: Second Edition by Magpie Games – Kickstarter page in fulfillment phase.
Rapscallion Quickstart also by Magpie Games
Family Tettigoniidae – Kaydids from all over. (T. Jones – Pretty bog-standard looking grasshoppers, a lot lot of them.)
Caedicia simplex or What Katydids look like around these parts (T. Jones – Described as “Makes a feeble chirp in the evening”. Savage. )