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 Eight – My Dear, We’re Out Of Stilton
Escape From Stilton:
In a Steampunk dystopia where both social & geographic movement are ruthlessly suppressed, a small group attempt to escape the manufacturing town of Stilton in their mechanical mole.
Maybe they’ll find freedom for themselves somewhere out there.
Or maybe they’ll find enough friends to have a chance to change things.
Downton Abbey By Way Of John Wick:
When the butler uttered the “Boss Is Dead” code-phrase, all hell broke loose among the formerly peacefully dining assassins, battling for supremacy and survival.
You’ve made it out of the dining room alive; Can you all work together for long enough to survive the rest of the house?
We’re Not In Stilton Anymore:
A group of Doctor Who fans find themselves in an unfamiliar landscape that shouldn’t exist at all, and most definitely shouldn’t exist between Stilton & Cardiff.
Dragonlance
The Dragonlance Campaign
Stilton (village)
Stilton (cheese)
Steampunk
Cyberpunk
Punk
Dover
Skegness Jolly Fisherman
Whangārei
Villein
Sherwood Forest
Fear The Boot Podcast
Cogs, Cakes, & Swordsticks
World of Synnibarr
Lady Blackbird
Space: 1889
GURPS
Car Wars
Traveller
Teenagers From Outer Space
Cavorite ( from The First Men In The Moon, by H. G. Wells )
Phlogiston
Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
Volcanoids (game)
Sir, You Are Being Hunted (game)
Reign (rpg)
The Curse of Fatal Death
Kung Fu Hustle
Doctor Who
Cardiff
Cardiff Bay
Rod Serling
Dark Consipracy
Chef!
Signs
The Lady in the Water
M. Night Shyamalan
Call of Cthulhu (rpg)
Poutine (rpg)
Madness (band)