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 Sixty Five – An Unconventional War
The world has woken up on full war footing. The enemy is known, your role is clear, but nobody knows why.
A “spoiler” convention has been scheduled a week ahead of yours. Go undercover in your best pointy ears and may’luch so you may move among them and undermine their plans.
Revolt in the orbital platforms teeters between sabotage and the catastrophic re-entry of the station.
….and with some inter-cultural exchange on the topic of Halloween.
Podcast – All Games Considered Podcast
Podcast – The Gutterskypes!
Mark’s Youtube Channel – Those Crazy Games
Unconferences
Daish, etc.
TV – Torchwood – Miracle Day
Proxy Warfare
TV – Doctor Who – The War Games (1969)
Time Lords
Tom Baker – The Fourth Doctor
“At 15 he became a novice monk, but left the monastery six years later after losing his faith. As he wrote in his autobiography he realised he wanted to break each of the Ten Commandments in order and thought he should get out before he did something serious.”
DANGER – HUMANS! – Highly recommended.
RPG – Atomic Robo by Evil Hat
RPG – The Gumshoe System by Pelgrane Press
Novel – The Pushcart Wars by Jean Merrill
The Asylum – Home of the “Mockbuster”
Unconventional Warfare
GenCon Indy
MotoGP at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
RPG – Sex, Lies, and Ultraspies
Podcast – That Gutterskypes episode – click here and search for “Session 082” for the start.
BRC Episode Sixty Three – Donut Tax Outrage!
Anime – Mobile Suit Gundam – this universe seems to make a habit out of this and had the Colony Drop trope named after it.
Novel – The Master of Paxwax by Phillip Mann
RPG – Fringeworthy
Ben mispronouncing Samhain – (it should be /ˈsɑːwɪn/ sah-win or /ˈsaʊ.ɪn/ sow-in, Irish pronunciation: [sˠaunʲ])
Chick Tracts
Guy Fawkes Night