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 Four – Tempest Redeye Flight
Trapped by the snow, the handful of passengers on a stranded air-liner find themselves retreading a classic story.
A Jovian gas extraction platform unexpectedly loses communication with it’s drill-head deep in the atmosphere below. Has the far end met with technical malfunction, a mutiny by the crew (or machinery), or something more sinister?
The first summit between the zombie nation and the terrified world that quarantined it is already off to a rocky start, so when a conspiracy is uncovered by a bi-partisan team of organisers they realise they will have to act to preserve the fruits of their work.
Inverness
Episode Eighty Five – Captain Plantagenet and the Plantageneteers Our Inverness Episode.Conservative leader’s UK Election Climate Debate ice sculpture stand-ins.
Official Monster Raving Loony Party
Lord Buckethead
Naugahyde
Naga
Peter Greenaway
Film – Prospero’s Books (1991)
Film – The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Play – The Tempest
RPG – Apocalypse World by Lumpley Games
Boardgame – Airline (1985)
As I recall, looking at the box cover is about twice as exciting as playing the game.Boardgame – Poleconomy
Auckland Roleplaying Guild
Loading Ready Run – Canadian comedy video producers, and the organisers of the Desert Bus For Hope charity.
Canadian National Film Board
Slow Television
RPG – Zombie World – (What Craig was talking about ~ T. Jones)
RPG – Zombie Cinema – (What Ben was talking about ~ T. Jones)
Film – Jupiter Ascending (2015)
TV – V (1984 – 85) and V (2009 – 11)
Film – Spaceballs (1987)
RPG – Eclipse Phase by Posthuman Studios
RPG – Shock by Xenoglyph / Joshua A. C. Newman
Scrollable Ocean Map
Alienation according to Marx
Film – Event Horizon (1997)
Film – The Thing (1982)
Video Game – Dead Space (2008)
RPG – Our Last Best Hope by Magpie Games
Film – Alien (1979)
Film – Warm Bodies (2013)
TV – iZombie (2015 19)
TV – Daybreak (2019-)
Film – One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975) – (ooh, a 1970’s Disney live action film with a Peter Ustinov in a role with an obviously problematic name! Pass? ~T. Jones)
The Chronicles of Amber
RPG – Microscope – Lame Mage Productions
RPG – Maschine Zeit by Machine Age Productions