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 Fifty – Despicable Fusion Cuisine
Retired supervillains open a restaurant, very much trading on their criminal past and the nostalgia for a gentler age of super-shenanigans. Can they sit by when things get bad out there?
Quantum Gastronomy: Gathering increasingly bizzare and impossible ingredients for the refined tastes of super-futuristic food snobs.
An famous Alien chef launches a competition, with the goal of finding something alien that Terrans will actually eat.
Despicable Fusion Cuisine is a front for a money laundering operation. They don’t want customers, and are unsure how to cope with suddenly becoming ironically popular.
Episode Six – Food Court Wars
Episode Seven – Arrr! Here We Be, Becalmed Upon This Desolate Siding
Episode Thirty Two – Our Story Begins In A Dying Stripmall
Benidorm
Alicante
Tenerife
Masks
The Wire
Comics Code Authority
Despicable Me
Planet Hollywood
Common Grounds
Batman TV Series
The Dark Knight Rises
Necessary Evil
Blades in the Dark
CERN
Post-Scarcity
The World Wide Wrestling RPG
Vampire: The Masquerade
Ryuutama: Natural Fantasy RPG
Jupiter Ascending
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Bulldogs
Uranium Chef
E.E. Doc Smith
Stellar Population
( Craig had it wrong – it’s the Population 3 stars that are the very old ones – T. Jones )
Fosbury Flop
Chef!
Bigtop Burger
The Weekenders
Bob’s Burgers
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Elementary
Kids on Bikes
Myers Park, Auckland
A Succulent Chinese Meal