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 Forty – Super Powers or your money back! 100% Guaranteed!
Investigators look into ‘We Can Give You Superpowers’ claims, trying to protect people from the scams, the dangerous scams, the snake-oil salesmen, and the 100% lethal scams.
And the occasional ones which are so much worse than just being fatal.
Having super-powered employees is a status symbol, and having super powers, even if they’re not very useful, is fast becoming a necessity if you want a job.
Metahumans Anonymous: Reluctant Superheroes trying to deal with being expected to use their unwanted superpowers.
Congratulations; You have a totally random superpower!
Now go out there and Make A Difference!!
Howard Hughes
Tales of the Black Freighter
Ant Man and The Wasp
Lionel Hutz
Disney+
Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Lyle Lanly
Sweeny Todd
Cerberus The Aardvark
Captain Cockroach / Moon Roach
Dave Sim
Blades In The Dark
GURPS
Autogyro
Masks
Fate Worlds Volume One: Worlds On Fire
Paranoia
My Hero Academia
Sky High
Detective Pikachu
His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman
Blood Type Personality Theory
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Underground
Teenagers From Outer Space
Gamma World
Misfits
No Heroics
The Dream Team
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Inspectres
Leverage: The Roleplaying Game
Strikeforce: Morituri
The Fantastic Four
Professor Bernard Quatermass
Villains & Vigilantes
Truth & Justice
TSR Marvel Superheroes
Superhero 2044
Mystery Men
Alphas