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 Twenty – Levitating Blue Whale
Behind The Screens At An Ageing Arcade, Videogame Characters Try To Keep The Machines Running & Cover Up Glitches Before Anyone Notices.
In Desperate Times, A Psychic Blue Whale & A Team Of Sea Creatures Take To The Skies.
A Group Of Strangers Awaken, With No Memory Of How They Got There & Plenty Of Supplies, In A Tranquil & Cozy Environment Named Alitulo
Ambergris
Sperm Whale
Blue Whale
Giant Squid
Dragon Magazine
Gamma World
Super Squadron (rpg)
Ralph Breaks The Internet
Dreamcast
The Bromeliad, by Terry Pratchett
Ryutama (rpg)
Underground (rpg)
Field Of Dreams
Polybius (game)
Reboot (tv)
The Lego Movie
Fraggle Rock (tv)
Fate Accelerated
Inspectres
Flying Witch
Yogscast – Whale Lords
John H. Reiher Jr. Games
Minecraft
Reign (rpg)
Episode One Hundred And Nineteen – Ghostbusting/Home Improvement TV Show
Beetlejuice
The Laundry Files, by Charles Stross
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski
RPG.Net Thread about who to contact in a “House of Leaves” situation.
How to Mutate and Take Over the World, by R.U. Sirius & St, Jude
( Best I could find was a review from 20+ years ago ~ T. Jones )
HOL (rpg)
Werner Herzog
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, by Penelope Lively
Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism
Martha Washington (comics)
Are You A Werewolf
Marmite
Leverage: The Roleplaying Game
Ponyo
Aquaman
Mantis Shrimp
Far Cry
Half-Life 2
World Maps Without New Zealand