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 Seven – From Me To You; A Free Gift Of Soul Dust
On stage at a club, interrupted by the occasional solo, the band recount the tale of their experience with the supernatural.
For safety’s sake, nanotech is very tightly limited in scope, and will shut down if it goes out of bounds; So the container of unconstrained nanobots you’re holding is something that everyone wants, and that could be a problem.
An insidious Alien conspiracy plots to blow up the Sun, because it’s the only way to make our TV transmissions stop.
Sentient food items mount a daring rescue mission for a comrade who’s due to be cooked before their time.
The Queen is easily enough of a bad-ass to defeat intruders & rescue the court all by herself. The tricky part is getting enough of her adventuring gear together quickly enough that she can do it with style, instead of losing her temper and tearing the attackers apart with hands and teeth.
Soul Dust (WoW Inventory Item)
Phoenix Down
The Witcher (game)
Soul Music
Tom Waits
Inspectres
Zombie Cinema
Fiasco
Heilung (experimental folk music)
Laibach
Poutine (game)
Apocalypse World
Deadlands
Torg Eternity
Jazz
Neofolk
Folk Metal
EDM
Questlandia
Zombie World
Blades in the Dark
iHunt
Nanobot
Gold Mining
Arsenic
Cyanide
The One Ring
The Lord of the Rings
Cobalt 60
Office Space
WYSWYG
Three Laws of Robotics
Kids on Bikes
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Episode 144: Your Vile Human Secretions
Episode 145: The Case of the Accidental Battered Sausage
Fate Accelerated Edition
Tim Curry
Clue (movie)
Fish Police
Abstract Dungeon RPG
Voyager Golden Record
Castle Falkenstein
Atomic Robo
Our Last Best Hope
VeggieTales
Corn Dog
Episode 146: T’is A Pity She’s The Queen
Frozen
Frozen II
Queen Elizabeth II
Covington Cross