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 Nine –“The Maltese Falcon gun, a famous weapon once owned by the King of the Popes”
Q: What does this obscure clue mean? What can it possibly be pointing to?
A: Whatever the PCs decide, because they’re the experts.
Society has fallen apart, and the world has changed.
Or Has It?
What if the world is fine, but your perception of it is wrong?
Wildly Anachronistic High-Action AlchemyPunk in the Holy Land!
Adventures in the Misunderstood Present!
NZ Closes Borders
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
National Treasure
Indiana Jones (franchise)
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Call Of Cthulhu
Atomic Robo – The Roleplaying Game
Six String Samurai
Roman Catholic Church
The Western Schism
Martin V
Antipope Benedict XIII
Antipope Benedict XIV
Antipope Clement VIII
Antipope John XXIII
Gregory XII
Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta
Ultima Ratio Regum
Warhammer 40k
Tribute of the Maltese Falcon
Avignon
Avignon Papacy
Knights Hospitallier
West Marches Style Game
Microscope
Kingdom
Monty Python
Haliwell’s Movie Guide
Autons
Doctor Who
The Avengers ( British TV Series )
Left 4 Dead
Pontypool
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
Psychosis RPG
I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson
Dog Moon, by Robert Hunter
The Grateful Dead
Red Dwarf – Back To Reality (Despair Squid Episode)
Avenue 5
Hellsing
Dracula
Van Helsing
Castle Falkenstein
Hong Kong Action Theatre ( This is a review; Best thing I could find which showed why Craig suggested it ~ T. Jones )
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Castlevania
Blade Runner
Brazil (Movie)
Diana: Warrior Princess!
Marcus Rowland