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.
https://hoarde.net/bigredcouch
Episode One Hundred And Forty Nine – The Lost Continent of Zealandia!
Lost Continent of Zealandia Resurfaces!
Shocked New Zealanders find themselves in the middle of primordial forest; Fate of outside world uncertain!
As Zealandia slowly sinks beneath the waves, the inhabitants say their goodbyes and begin to disperse to their new homes.
Mythic Adventures In Zealandia!
Space Vagabonds travel the spaceways in search of work, fuel, spare parts, and anyone who knows how to adjust a hyperdrive.
NZ Election 2020
Zealandia
Cats vs. Dogs
New Zealand
New Caledonia
Geology
Geography
Kea
Pukeko
Land of the Lost (tv)
Auckland
Fiordland
Andes Mountains
Torg Eternity
Rifts
Valley of Gwangi
Altitude Sickness
Denver
Leh
Christchurch
Dunedin
Queenstown
White Wolf
Traveller: The New Era
Traveller World Tamer’s Handbook
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs
Xenozoic Tales
Sir Edmund Hillary
Fred Dagg
The Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Sam Neill
Kiwi
Tāne / Tāne Mahuta
DoC – NZ Department of Conservation
Māori
Sarum, by Edward Rutherfurd
English Channel
Erich von Däniken
Whakapapa Skifield
Giant’s Causeway
Wacky Races
Zealandia Nature Sanctuary
Wellington
Tui
Kakapo
Moa
Haast’s Eagle
Free Jazz
Our Last Best Hope
10 Candles
The Quiet Year
Downsizing
Hamilton
Atlantis
Mu
Lemuria
Maui
Moana (movie)
The Dead Lands (movie & tv)
Agon( rpg )
Oriental Adventures (D&D)
Shaw Brothers Studio
Episode 148 – Space Hobboes
Tim Curry
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkein
Fate of the Flying Temple
Dicebox (comic)
Archer (tv)
The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells
Kessler Syndrome