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 Eight – The Boy was the spouse of Justice and a slave to Science
Quarreling Gods look for arbitrators among the very mortals they are supposed to guide.
In a society that worships rational concepts as if they were competing supernatural powers, a disruptive and mercenary acolyte is tampering with a delicate balance.
Justice can be automated. And now he’s got the tools to do it, that’s just what the Son of Justice plans to do.
Between the machinery that keeps him alive and mentor that is erring on the side of vengeance, this side-kick has a lot to deal with.
The latest celebrity super-power-couple are from across the divide between hero and villain. City-wide peace requires that they get along, but their friends are left to mange the fallout.
Word salad
Purple monkey dishwasher.
TISM
River Phoenix
Tent Revival – maybe camp, maybe not ~ T. Jones
Films – The Carry On franchise
Author – Gene Wolfe
RPG – Sea Dracula
Dick and Jane Books
RPG – All Hail Bugtopia (pdf)- A 12-page game of insect justice made Hannah Shaffer, presently of Make Big Things for Game Chef 2015 – Reviewed on The Tabletop Superhighway
Phoenix Wright – Ace Attorney
Murder on the Dance Floor – Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Shure SM58 Microphone – the reason other microphones die.
RPG – Fiasco by Bully Pulpit Games
Rashomon effect
TV- Matlock
Film – Divergent
Novels and Films – Harry Potter franchise
Archie Comics
TV – Happy Days
Film – Equilibrium
Pre-crime
RPG – Fate Accelerated by Evil Hat Productions
Kick Ass
Zircher’s (Taz) Pitch
TV – Star trek
RPG – Masks by Magpie Games
Novel and Movie Series – Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko
TV – Gotham
RPG – Is it a plane!? – Kickstarter page
RPG – D&D 5th Edition
Happy Jacks RPG Podcast
The Old Millwright’s Arms
Domesday Book
The Mistress of Jersey – A Tribute to the Sisters of Mercy – They have a Facebook page.
The Cure and Robert Smith
The Smiths and Morrissey
Black Books – “…all that dancing!”