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 One –“Here, have a protein squirrel”
Genetically Modified Adorable Food Mascots Trow Off The Shackles Of Their Behaviour Chips And Plot A Bid For Freedom!
Ben tries to make Hiking interesting with the Power of Gaming!
People try to understand, and ideally survive, in utterly unfamiliar environments
Marmalade
New Zealand Lockdown Levels
Neil Gaiman
Amanda Palmer
Google Walking Directions To Singapore
Captain Tom
Episode One Hundred And Three – Are You Henry David Thoreau?
Alleged Bonus Episode – In Which We Attempted To Make Characters For “My Little Pony: Roleplaying Is Magic”
Paranoia
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
The Terminator
Logan’s Run
Chicken Run
Prison Break
We3
Mrs. Frisby & The Rats of NIMH
Watership Down
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Muir Woods (Muir Woods National Monument)
QAGS
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
Alvin & The Chipmunks
Questlandia
Scroggin – Yes, it’s a real word.
Mt. Taranaki on Google Maps
Aggretsuko (anime)
Hull Zero Three, by Greg Bear
Fallout 76
Fallout Franchise
GURPS