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 Seven – CHUNKWEASEL
Members of a slightly successful and long-disbanded garage band find that their music is having a revival. They have no clue who’s releasing it, or how they even got the recordings, and finding out is going to uncover some old memories and regrets.
Having a famous action star of an earlier era on the poster will definitely give your movie a boost, but you need to keep them from being so uncooperative & disinterested that they wreck the production.
In a tale as old as time, young up and coming anthropomorphic superheroes enlist the aid of a mentor to guide them on their journey to greatness.
Hollow Earth
Anvil! The Story of Anvil ( Documentary about the one band on a billing who didn’t take off ~ T. Jones )
EP
8-Track
DAT
It Was A Mutual Decision ( Yep, there’s definitely a were-rat element in there. ~ T. Jones )
The Gernsback Continuum, by William Gibson
Aidoru
Cyberpunk
Akihabara
The Sisters of Mercy
Andrew Eldritch
AD&D
ShadowRun
Cool Hand Luke
Zeno’s Paradox
Ship of Theseus
The King of the Geezer Teasers (Vulture)
Willie Nelson
Nicholas Cage
Marlon Brando
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1996 movie)
2000 AD
D.R. & Quinch
Syphon Filter
Apocalypse World
Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple
Weekend At Bernie’s
Wonderful Life ( The Cliff Richard & The Shadows movie Craig has for some reason seen. ~ T. Jones )
Batman (1966)
Mystery Men
My Hero Academia
Zootopia
Masks: A New Generation
Vampire: The Masquerade