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 Eight – Religious Cops Train To Fight Magic
The woefully underfunded members of the TZMP (Tserkovnyye Zashchitniki Moskovskogo Patriarkhata) must walk a line between keeping a low profile, maintaining interdepartmental peace with the uncanny Night Watch, and the disapproval of the authorities, while still managing to thwart the forces of Hell.
Your multi-denominational precinct of peace officers work diligently to maintain law and order, though your task may find you crossing into “differently-Holy” ground.
Odd-couple detective partnerships are a classic trope, but when one of the pair is a literal angel the cases they handle tend to involve obscure prophesy and dire omens.
Ably assisted this week by John H Reiher Jr – unlike us layabouts, he actually makes games! Check them out!
GenCon 2019
I couldn’t find an image of timezone calculator wheel, but here’s a currency converter from the same error. The timezone is still probably mostly accurate.Original Link
Animation – The Real Ghost Busters
Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic
Tri Tac Games
Animation – Goober and the Ghost Chasers
The Alexandria RPG Library
Eastern Orthodox Church
Film and Books – The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Television – Brooklyn Nine-Nine
The Da Vinci Code – Rex Deus
Anime – Midnight Occult Civil Service
Anime – Mob Psycho 100
Anime – Ga-Rei Zero
Anime – Witch Hunter Robin
TV – Chernobyl
TV – Kolchak: The Night Stalker
TV – Special Unit 2
TV – Fringe
TV – Millennium
TV – Warehouse 13
TV – Eleventh Hour which also reminded that the BBC made a version with a rather chilly Patrick Stewart a few years before.
TV – Grim
TV – The X Files
TV – Supernatural
RPG – InSpectres
Netflix – Bright
Film – Thor: Raganarok
TV – Good Omens
RPG – In Nomine
RPG – Better Angels
RPG – Atomic Robo and the SRD
Webcomic – Darth and Droids
Webcomics – DM of the Rings by Shamus Young