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 Twenty Three – Tomb Temperature
The Imperial Tomb is a model of the afterlife, and holds the remains of Emperors, Governors, and Important People; It is, quite literally, the Tomb of the Empire. And when the conditions are just right, the model becomes real, and the Tomb becomes a gateway to the afterlife.
That’s when the gravediggers have to put back whatever leaks out.
How do you even make a Zombie Medical Drama RPG?
The Necropolis has been frozen for aeons, but it’s now starting to thaw out, and the residents are starting to thaw.
Somewhere in there are the secrets needed to freeze it again, but getting to them take a lot of planning, a lot of care, and will be a serious undertaking.
When Will Dynamic Ad Insertion Take Over Podcasting? – Backyard Media
( Covers Dynamic Insertion without being too much of an ad in itself or having many many annoying pop-ups ~ T. Jones )
Welcome To Night Vale
The Daily Zeitgeist
Black Tape Podcast
Venom (movie)
Chernobyl Sarcophagus
Stalker (game)
The Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Mr. Vampire
Terracotta Army
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
Necropolis
Cremains
Ghostbusters
Coco
Day Of The Dead
Wraith
Technical Debt
Terry Pratchett
St. Elsewhere
Shortland Street
Episode Fifty – Ghostwatch
Ghostwatch (tv)
Matter, by Iain M Banks
The Mummy
HVAC
The Man In The Maze, by Robert Silverberg
Old School Renaissance
Gronan’s Guide To Gaming
Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG
Episode Sixty One – I Am Now The Proud Possessor Of A Haunted Demon Amplifier
Iron Maiden
H.P Lovecraft
Cthulhu Mythos
Spinal Tap
Bureau 13: Stalking The Night Fantastic
Fate of Cthulhu Kickstart
Grunge
Bill Hicks
Airheads
KEXP-FM
Doomtree
Marcel Proust
Conlon Nancarow
Kung Fu Vampire Killers
Dracula
Bloodgasm
( The only references I could find to this relate to a Horror Anthology called either “Hi-8” or “Horror Independent 8”, where Bloodgasm is a movie within a movie. ~ T. Jones )
( from The Gratuitous B-Movie Column )
The third story, by Tom Masiello, is called “The Tape” and involves Tim (Travis Hoecker), a video store employee who becomes infatuated with a weird as hell shot-on-video horror movie called “Bloodgasm.” As far as the employee can tell, “Bloodgasm” was never released to the public and the creator of it is a recluse of some sort. Tim is so obsessed with “Bloodgasm,” both watching it and researching it, he ignores his hot girlfriend Phoebe (Bobbi Beach). When Tim finally finds the director of “Bloodgasm” and goes to meet him, the encounter changes his life forever. In general, I liked the way this short builds to finding the “Bloodgasm” creator, but the way it ends is unsatisfying. Personally, I don’t think the ending makes any sense. With a different ending, “The Tape” would be a classic horror short. As it exists now, it’s a fun disappointment. Still worth watching.
~ my bad! – I meant Deathgasm (2015)
Alien Weaponry (band)
Six Feet Under (tv)