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 Six- “I knew there was something I was supposed to do, but I can’t remember what it was…”
A group of total strangers who are distresingly familiar to each other attempt to work out what disaster befel their city, why they feel like they had something to do with it, and whether it could happen again.
The Universe is broken, the backup is corrupted, and you’re trying to rebuild from your own hazy memories of what it was like.
And maybe sneak in some improvements at the same time.
The Social Collateral system rewards helpful deeds & improves efficiency by ensuring that nobody can forget a task.
And yet it feels like that’s what’s happening, even though the system says it isn’t.
The World’s Greatest Genius needs a retinue of people to keep them on track & remind them to wear pants, and to stop anyone finding out that this is the case.
That’s where you come in.
Auto-Targeting systems mean that if you look human, and are a combatant, you get hit; The only defense is camoflage which obscures the human form.
In these dark times, Furries are our only hope for survival.
Airship Pirates stage raids on the Politico-Corporate Empire of the Mouse, rebroadcasting IP to anyone with the will to watch it and concealing their identities by wearing the cartoonish heads of the oppressor.
Big Ben
Crowdfunding a Brexit Big Ben Bong
The Queens Park Arts Centre
The Cinelli Brothers
Procol Harum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdAImagine Dragons
Psi*Run
Momento
Masks
Part Time Gods
Blades In The Dark
The Princess Bride
Microscope
World Of Synnibarr
Inflationary Epoch
Lepton
District Health Nurse
Wellness Check
Maneki Neko, by Bruce Sterling
Paranoia
Dark City
Stargate SG1 – Revisions
The Thirteenth Floor
The Matrix
Axon
Episode Five – Bond: Behind The Scenes
Lemmings
Apocalypse World
The Witcher ( game )
Rick and Morty
Fiasco
The Worst Year Ever Podcast
The Walt Disney Company
The “Mortal Engines” Quartet
Black Mirror – Fifteen Million Merits
Transmetropolitan
SLA Industries
Bill Hicks