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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Audient Ideas with Alex
Dissatisfied Immortals plot against the heads of their own pantheon.
When a dispute among the gods reaches an impasse, what would happen if they turned to mortal justice?
Baby’s First Super-villain Lair! Now with added minions!
A heavy metal band is inexplicably being… …nice. Supernatural forces must be responsible!
The Big Red Couch is omnipresent, eternal, and unchanging. Also pretty comfy. You could go anywhere, but why would you bother?
Episode Thirty – Apollo Rising
Paradise Lost – John Milton
The Winchester Thing -> Supernatural
Film – Clash of the Titans (1981) (The Good One)
Themis, Týr, and Maat – assorted gods of justice and law.
TV- The Almighty Johnsons – Norse Gods incarnated as four NZ brothers.
Cicero
Hunter S. Thompson
Movie – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Spider Jerusalem from Transmetropolitan
RPG – Iron Kingdoms
RPG – All Hail Bugtopia – A 12-page game of insect justice made Hannah Shaffer for Game Chef 2015 – Reviewed on The Tabletop Superhighway
Video Games – Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney
RPG – Leverage, Fiasco, and Crime World Fate Worlds Volume Two: Worlds In Shadow
RPG – My Life With Master
Jerry Garcia
Jimmy Page once owned Boleskine House, but the providence of the front door isn’t clear.
Dethklok from Metalocalypse
TV – Angel (1999 – 2004) – The character “Jasmine” played by Gina Torres
TV – Killjoys and Firefly
RPG – Nobilis
Video Games – Magic Circle not “Golden Circle”
Collected Stories – Zothique by Clark Ashton Smith