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 Two – Power Drift
Giant autonomous trucks make their way through the increasingly-abandoned areas outside of the cities.
There’s some fantastic cargo onboard if you’re good enough to take it. Of course, there may also be security onboard.
The Cities are wonderful, the Countryside is a hard desperate struggle, but if you can gain enough favour you can make the jump from Country to City.
Except that’s a lie, and folks are starting to figure that out.
The problem with having a downtrodden underclass is convincing them to stay that way.
Iceberg racing down the slopes of an enormous volcano on a low-gravity world, modifying your berg as the race progresses.
Getting to the bottom first gets you the win, but the other teams will have a few tricks to pull, and there’s also the issue of stopping
Life behind the scenes in a high-tech racing crew.
Episode Thirty – Apollo Rising
Episode Forty-Four – Gravity Princess
The Brady Bunch
Battle Royale (movie)
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
octaNe (game)
Car Wars
Judge Dredd
The Wolverine (movie)
Firefly
Westworld
Land Of The Dead
Elysium
Episode Seventy Seven – This Island Universe
Olympus Mons
Antlion
Le Mans
America’s Cup
Nascar
Formula One
Zombie World
Flamme Rouge
Episode One Hundred And Forty One – “Here, have a protein squirrel”
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Speed Racer
Dick Dastardly
Doc Savage
Timewatch
Paris-Dakar Rally
Animaniacs