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 Six – A Carefully Articulated Curse Against The Common Man
A tiny little town is the unwitting lynch-pin of the conflict over what the nation is to become, with multiple factions fighting, in this case, over the train station
An insidious mind-controlling curse spreads through the use of the Common tongue
The inhabitants of a Generic Fantasy Village, tired of the dangers, destruction, & hyperinflation brought about by by Adventurers, band together in order to deal with the problem
Bruce Forsyth
The Generation Game
Basil Brush
Episode Eighty Eight – Our Listener, International Human of Mystery
Roko’s Basilisk
Episode One Hundred and Fifty Two – Floating Steel Reef
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (movie)
Alucard
Hellsing
Narrowboat
The Beeching Cuts
Oh, Doctor Beeching!
Hi-de-Hi!
All The Stations
Skegness Is So Bracing / The Jolly Fisherman
Babylon 5
The Dresden Files RPG
Stephen King
Ray Bradbury
Clive Barker
A Night In The Lonesome October, by Roger Zelazny
Furby
Re: Creators (anime)
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
Pontypool (movie)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 Donald Sutherland version)
Overly Attached Girlfriend Meme
Tower of Babel
Shadowrun
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Mordor
QAGS
Zombie Land Saga
KonoSuba
Questionable Content