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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Episode One Hundred And Fourteen – DIE FARBEN!
People and objects changing from greyscale to colour is a wonderful way to depict change, be it in aspects of the world, or in the world you inhabit. But from the point of view of someone who’s accustomed to a greyscale world, it’d look uncannily, possibly horrifically, wrong.
Colour has been leeched from the world by Our Oppressive Grey Overlords, but a few members of the resistance hold objects which have retained their colour, and wield powers based upon that colour. Of course, once they’ve wielded their powers, the colour sticks around, so it’s pretty hard to be stealthy about it.
Dwarf Fortress
Kruggsmash plays Dwarf Fortress
Nethack
Esri Developer Summit Europe
RPG – Paranoia
RPG – Chromatic Dragons (D&D)
RPG –Gamma World
Dragon Quest
Jimmy Urine
Power Rangers
Mall Dojo / McDojo
Tiamat (D&D)
Tiamat (Babylon)
Welcome To Night Vale
The Xi Effect, by Robert S. Richardson as Philip Latham
Our Last Best Hope
Absolute Zero
Planck Length
(It should be noted that “The Planck length is sometimes misconceived as the minimum length of spacetime, but this is not accepted by conventional physics, as this would require violation or modification of Lorentz symmetry.”, which makes Craig’s point largely irrelevant. I’m sure we’re all shocked. ~ T. Jones)
Memory Leak
Apocalypse Now
Sin City
That Yellow Bastard
A Dame To Kill For
The Big Fat Kill
Frank Miller
Steven Spielberg
Film – Schindler’s List
Film – The Wizard Of Oz
Film – Pleasantville
H. P. Lovecraft
Film – Die Farbe (movie)
The Colour Out Of Space
Spider Ham
Spider Gwen
RPG – Unknown Armies
RPG – Trail Of Cthulhu
RPG – Call Of Cthulhu
RPG – Fate
Film – The Mouth Of Madness
TV- Fringe
Monty Python
Dazzle Camouflage
RPG – Apocalypse World
Episode One Hundred And Thirteen – Never Go Full-Force On An Éclair, Son
Death Wish (movie series)
Charles Bronson
–All You Zombies–, by Robert A. Heinlein
By His Bootstraps, by Robert A. Heinlein
Alan Moore
Bill Hicks
Dennis Leary
Rewind: Temporal Tales (Taz’s game, on Drivethru RPG ~ T. Jones)
The Daily Zeitgeist
Film – Pacific Rim
Theresa May
Brian Eno – Ambient 1: Music For Airports
William Basinski – The Disintegration Loops
Jóhann Jóhannsson – IBM 1401, A User’s Manual
Film – Donnie Darko
Film – The Abyss
Film(?) – The Haunted World of El Superbeasto