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 Eight – Flip the Mythos
Extradimensional Horrors Desperately Try To Save Humanity, Hampered By The Fact That Their Devoted Followers Are Evil Idiots
A Travelling Caravan For The Relocation & Re-purposing Of Slightly Used Gods
Accidental Renaissance
It’s actually called ‘Ya Mama’Christopher Walken
Ponzi Scheme
H.P. Lovecraft
Cthulhu Mythos
Dagon
A Fire Upon The Deep, by Vernor Vinge
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Krikkit Warriors
Nyaruko: Crawling with Love
Harem Anime
Long-time nuclear waste warning messages
Euclidian Geometry
Great Race Of Yith
Mi-Go
Microscope
Change Control
Cargo Cult
Gold Box D&D / Dungeons & Dragons Immortals Rules
Restaurant To Another World / Isekai Shokud?
Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Ranma ½
Girls Und Panzer
Bleach
Log Horizon
Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Soul Eater
Sh?nen Manga
Sh?jo Manga
Fate Of Cthulhu
Roman Pantheon
Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
Needful Things, by Stephen King
House Flipping
The Littlest Hobo
Rentaghost
Dogs In The Vinyard
Quantum Leap
Supernatural
Apocalypse World
Waifu
Blades In The Dark
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game
Episode 137 – Telepathic Murder Ghosts Coming Out Of The Trees
Buckfast Tonic Wine
Fox Mulder
Karrin Murphy
Kids On Bikes
Deathworld Series, by Harry Harrison
The Ballad of Halo Jones
The Maltese Falcon