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 Five – Witch Planet Soccer
You don’t call a place the “Witch Planet” because you like it, or the people who live on it, and you don’t do so without a cause. And you don’t go to live on the “Witch Planet” without a reason.
And while the original settlers of a place may be content with the ignore & be ignored status quo, their children may not feel the same way. And that’s when the ugly secret history of the Witch Planet starts to come into the light.
Actual witches rebel against their parents by attempting to play this strange non-magical sport called … soccer?
In an extremely magical world, having an entirely mundane football game is challenging. Each team has a squad who are constantly on the lookout for magical interference by their opponents. And maybe also on the lookout for opportunities to do some interfering of their own.
When what’s up for grabs is your teams chance to make it into the professional leagues of Galactic Witch Soccer, there’s plenty of room for skulduggery, match-fixing, and good old-fashioned shenanigans.
And that’s just the trouble that happens on purpose.
OK, Baba Yaga’s Hut can play in goal provided that it keeps its doors and windows open.
When magic left the world, it did so literally.
The fairy creatures and the trolls under bridges and the enchanted groves got together and went traveling among the stars.
What sort of person invents dimensional travel, and decides to use it to make money through sports franchising?
Dimension-hopping sports fans seek the universe where their favourite team didn’t get booted from the league.
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