The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast

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 Four – Drab Majesty


The Resplendent Majesty sits upon the throne, and lives with everyone’s attention on them.
The Drab Majesty lives in the shadows, and nobody knows they’re there until there’s something they need to deal with.

A team make their living through resurrecting people by assembling the scattered fragments of their personality construct from the far-flung corners of cyberspace.
But some of these people don’t want to come back.
And some aren’t actually dead.

In a calm and stable Empire, the first step on the Hero’s Journey is … Finding any challenge at all

Moa
Fantail
Tui

Fiordland, NZ

1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance, by Gavin Menzies

Haast’s Eagle

Alyans
Drab Majesty

Orpheus & Euridice

Morrissey
Black Marble

Castle Falkenstein

Louis XIV

Queen of Naboo

Gormenghast Series, by Mervyn Peake

Lyre

WandaVision
Undone (animated tv series)
A Scanner Darkly

Headspace (rpg)

Inception

Shattered Dreams (rpg review)

Schopenhauer
GNS Theory

Critical Role

Sex and the City

Serial (podcast)

Piers Morgan

Fascism

The Secret Society of Second Born Royals

Homeostasis

Dogs in the Vineyard

WestWorld

Dagon, by H.P. Lovecraft
Cthulhu Mythos

Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising

Eclipse Phase: Transhumanity’s Fate
( Craig got the game wrong ~ T. Jones )

Coral Reef

The Kraken Wakes, by John Wyndham

Craig insisted that I put this in here ~ T. Jones


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 February 12, 2021  1h15m