The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast

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 Nineteen –“Home Improvement / Ghostbusting T.V. Show”


Audient Contribution! InSpectres hacked into a renovation contest show.

Will you race to repair and exorcise a spooky fixer-upper to sell it on, or…

…rejuvenate a legitimately haunted dwelling, taking both the needs of the living and the dead into account?

In a fusion of a reality TV shared house and an escape room, the contestants must work together to succeed. But there seems to be one more contestant than expected and more questions than answers.

Tune in to a local cable TV show about enthusiastic amateur exorcists. Is it comedy parody or a stealthy spiritual defense outreach program?

Battle Junky Vampires on the Mean Streets of Monstertown!

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John’s InSpectres Hack from MeWe

This Old Haunted House!
Using InSpectres from Memento Mori Theatricks, I’d hack their setup and turn it into a reality TV show setup.

Character setup is the same as in the normal game, as is the Franchise setup, though in this case it would be “Production.” And instead of getting franchise dice, you get Ratings Dice.

Characters can range from The Talent to Crew. And the show, This Old Haunted House, is a home improvement show, that includes exorcising any spirits haunting said house. So that does mean that the Talent has to talk to the camera/audience from time to time. They are doing a show.

Since this is sort of show is driven by both the GM and players, it’s going to be a bit hard to figure out when it ends.

If does follow the structure of an InSpectres game somewhat:

The Audition: Each PC goes through their audition interview. This is where you find out about what skeletons are in their closet, and potential plot threads for the different shows.

Finding the Property: Everyone decides where and what property they are going to work on, and who owns it, or if they are going to buy it and flip it.

Research & Investigation: Researching the problem and coming up with an explanation/solution. This includes what’s wrong with the property besides being haunted. It is a home improvement show.

Assemble the Crew: Put together not only the ghost busting gear, but the contractors who are going to work on the house as well.

Doing the Shoot: Filming the episode and dealing with all the problems in the house.

The Reveal: Showing off the house and renovations, returning it to the home owners, or selling it on the market. Transfer your Rating Dice to the Bank and Cards.

Between Jobs; Time to take a break and get ready for the next renovation.

Instead of confessionals, this being a reality TV show, you have Outtakes. In these one or two of the PCs perform an outtake where something goes wrong and reveals an aspect about one of the PCs that no one knew about.

Because this is a home improvement/ghost busting show, scenes will have elements of both:

Mike: “Joe, take a look at this.”
Joe: “Geez, that looks like ichor.”
Mike: Tapping the wall, “No, not that, look at the wall. The foundation is cracked.”

To:

Mike: “Bill, what did you find behind that walled up door.”
Bill: “What we have here is what you call a dimensional portal.”
Mike: Looking through the doorway at the jungle on the other side. “Going to take a bit more than mortar and brick to clean that up.”

Given enough time, and I probably could come up with a decent enough hack of the system.” – come and give us a hand on MeWe.

Show Notes

TV – Home Improvement (1991 – 1999)

TV – Holmes on Homes (2001 – 2009)

TV – The Block NZ (2012 – 2018)

Film – “House” (1985)

Film – “House II : The Second Story” (1987)


John Ratzenberger in “House II : The Second Story” (1987)

Podcast + Forum – Fear the Boot

Podcast + Forum – Happy Jacks RPG

BG – Mansions of Madness

BG – Munchkin

BG – Illuminati

BG – Zombies!!!

BG – Villainous

BG – Battlestar Galatica

BG – Dominion

BG – RoboRally (1994) & RoboRally (2016)

Tim Allen

Film – Beetlejuice (1988)

Philosophy Tube – NB – The very obnoxious character in the don’t-look-too-closely shirt is not in the vast majority of the video.

TV – Grand Designs (1999-)

Novel – Dead Famous by Ben Elton

Film – The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

Film – Sixth Sense (1999)

TV – Dead Set (2008)

Film (and weird psycho-social experiment) – Dau (2019)

Dresden-verse by Jim Butcher

RPG – Masks

TV – Ghostwatch (1992)

TV – Supernatural (2005- )

RPG – Funkadelic Frankenstein for QAGS

Novel – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Film – Mystery Men (1999)

RPG – Magical Mom Force by Audient member John H Reiher

Anime – Re:Creators (2017)

Upcoming film – Colour of Space – Richard Stanley &
Nick Cage

Film – The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)


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