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 Seven – What Does “A Cheeky Nando’s” Mean?
In the post-Brexit dystopia, where any mention of the world outside of the Commonwealth is strictly forbidden, a shadowy folk hero emerged … Cheeky Nando.
Working the grill at Nando’s confers awesome martial arts powers via the precise repetition of cunningly-disguised spatula and tong based fighting moves.
Cheeky Nando is friendly, charming, helpful, and the local Necromancer.
The Cheeky Nano-Dose – Pervasive nanotech means, more or less, that you’re being watched from the inside.
When a group holiday goes terribly, terribly wrong.
What if someone out there managed to franchise & weaponise football in order to destabilise cultures in other dimensions?
Inspired, we assume, by this internet gem;
Nandos
Lime (scooters)
Ezell’s Famous Chicken, Seattle
Piri-Piri
Captain Swing
Ned Ludd
1984, by George Orwell
V For Vendetta (movie)
Not Tonight
Papers, Please
Colin Furze
Cyberpunk
Grey Ranks
Misspent Youth
Essex Man
From The Guaridan – “The Invention Of Essex – How a county became a caricature”
Spitting Image
Qi
The Karate Kid
The God Of Cookery
Stephen Chow
Shaolin Monastery
West Side Story
Shaolin Soccer
Food Court Wars ( Big Red Couch episode )
The Hound, by H. P. Lovecraft
Stargate SG-1
Revolution
Doom (game)
Lazarus Churchyard
Torchwood: Miracle Day
Blood Music, by Greg Bear
Fear The Boot
George R. R. Martin
Kids On Bikes
Zombie World
The Strange
Part Time Gods
Masks
Bulldogs!
TimeWatch
QAGS
Fiasco
Mods & Rockers
Misfits (tv)
ASBO
Brighton Pier
Millwall FC
Berserker, by Fred Saberhagen
Black Books