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 Three – Irritable Geography
Ben has a thesis on the role and point of travel in games, and the role and point of the encounters along the way.
Deities of the Land deal with a threat to their domain and the people living there; Possibly in between shifts at work.
Plucky youngsters save their home by enlisting the aid of the Spirit of the Town itself.
Teams of couriers venture through slightly alternate realities to keep their payload safe.
Prince Andrew Pizza Express Woking reviews suspended
Perennial
IBS
Flitwick
Leicester
Draconians
The Dragonlance Campaign
Gamma World
Random Encounter
Rust Monster
Gary Gygax
Traveller
( Black Book/Classic is what Craig referred to; Many, but not all, editions/versions had the same basic idea of a jump mechanic ~ T. Jones )
Elite ( video game )
Part Time Gods
Kids On Bikes
The Quiet Year
Maui
Princess Mononoke
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
The Spiral Series, by Michael Scott Rohan
Nighthawks
( Nighthawks is the painting by Edward Hopper. Nighthawks At The Diner is a Tom Waits album ~ T. Jones )
Shadowrun ( wikipedia link, because there’s so much of Shadowrun it’s difficult to pick something more specific to link to ~ T. Jones )
Hideo Kojima
Metal Gear Franchise
Guillermo del Toro
Norman Reedus
Silent Hill ( franchise )
Konami
Skyrim ( technically, ‘The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’ ~ T. Jones )
The Color Out Of Space (movie)
SQL
Quantum Conundrum
Dark Conspiracy
The Dark Tower, by Stephen King (series)
The Postman (movie)
ARPANET