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 Four – Your Vile Human Secretions
“But Secreted By What?” – How do you make Humans the terrifying monsters, make the game human-playable, and have there be any point in doing so?
Refined and elegant alien races aren’t actually interested in our culture; They’re just getting unimaginable highs off of our sweat.
Superheroes based on the ancient Hippocratic(?) humours battle to protect the Earth.
Humanity has been locked away at their own behest, and for their own protection. Everyone knows that.
Nobody, including the robotic systems keeping yo in, can remember why.
Swan
Why the Queen Owns All the Swans in England
DOC ( NZ Department Of Conservation )
Swanndri
Gumboot
Object Model Diagram
Aliens
Biofilm
Terry Pratchett
Rick and Morty
Humans are Space Orks (tumblr)
Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
Prog Rock
The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells
The Massacre of Mankind, by Stephen Baxter
E.T.
Urotsukid?ji
David Brin
The Uplift War
Torchwood – Children Of Earth
Celestial Matters, by Richard Garfinkle
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Chlorine Triflouride
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Prototype
Infamous
Logan’s Run
Stargate: SG-1 – The Gamekeeper
The Shortest Story
Passengers
Oblivion
Webring
Battered Sausage
Scotland