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 Thirty – I Owe it All To My Digital Wristwatch
Time travellers attempting to blend in run into problems when they don’t know that they’re not using the right language.
Cheesy 80’s Kids Shows, where sly end-of-episode comments are a private joke between the protagonists and the audience.
Corporate executives combine the powers of their ludicrously expensive watches to form … Captain OfIndustry!
Backwards & Ford: Gerald Ford travels through time, possibly with a team of plucky youngsters, righting wrongs & setting history straight. (Possibly battling Evil Nixon in an effort to restore Good Nixon, or maybe subtly influencing the timeline to produce the best possible Nixon )
A group of police officers notice that the weirdness they’re seeing matches elements from their theological or cultural backgrounds. Many different cultural or theological backgrounds.
When aliens issue a challenge for dominance, electric cart jousting is the only logical option.
Whenuapai Air Base
David Cronenberg
Cheesehead Hat
Cow Pat
Moore’s Law
Calculator Watch
Game & Watch
Pocket Watch
Hello Fellow Kids
TimeWatch
Timeless
Tales From The Loop
Kids On Bikes
The Goonies
The Jank Cast
The Kids From OWL
Never Say Never Again
Thunderball
Albert R. Broccoli
Power Rangers
Captain Planet and the Planeteers
Jimmy Hoffa
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Skeksis
President Gerald Ford
Pulsar Calculator Watch
Inventing The Digital Watch Again And Again And…The Lost Chapter: A Concise History Of The LED watch
Digital Dust: What happened to the digital watch?
President Jimmy Carter
RPG.net
Time Travelling Teddy Roosevelt & His Time Travelling Rough Riders
( This link might work, or you might need to be an RPG.net member and be given access to the specific board ~ T. Jones )
Emperor Norton
Escrima
Time Cellist
Yo-Yo Ma
Quantum Leap
Twin Peaks
Misspent Youth
Steal Away Jordan
Episode One Hundred And Twenty Nine – Aliens have landed at Gen Con and only stalwart games can defeat them!
Episode One Hundred And Twenty Eight – Religious Cops Train To Fight Magic
The Strange
Monte Cook Games
Numenera
Cypher System
TORG Eternity
The Dresden Files
Grimm
Kung Fu Vampire Killers
Dunedin, New Zealand
Mister Vampire
Dracula
Atomic Robo RPG