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 Sixty – Laser-Plated Hero
Knives Out, With Food, In Space
“Plated” has a very different meaning in the Culinary world
For this game, we’ll be playing the “Punk” settings. Every one of them. All at the same time.
I have battled my super-powered nemesis on multiple occasions, and have defended this city for many years, but somehow I can’t shake the feeling that a month ago we both worked in a Starbucks.
Someone has etched the circuitry for superpowers into your skin, and you have no idea who or why. Or even what your powers are.
Will wrote a game based on Ben’s pitch, and kindly allowed us to share it;
I’m Sorry, We’re Out Of Stilton (ISWOOS)
( How did this happen? How did we achieve gaming relevance? It certainly wasn’t what I signed up for. ~ T. Jones )
Happy Jacks RPG Podcast
The Poxy Boggards
20th Century Fox
Disney
Guy Fieri
Smashmouth
Knives Out
The Expanse
Poutine RPG
Gumshoe
Wondermark
Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe?
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Sweeny Todd
Lamb to the Slaughter, by Roald Dahl
Wolverine
Gordon Ramsey
Saw (movie franchise)
Cyberpunk Derivatives
Jay Lake
Judea
GURPS
GURPS Ice Age
GURPS Bunnies & Burrows
GURPS Mecha
RIFTS
Fate Accelerated
TORG
Paranoia
Danger Mouse
James Bond
Sean Connery
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
Mitchell and Webb
Jem and the Holograms
Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series
Batman ’66
Tales From The Floating Vagabond
Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Superstar
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
J. Jonah Jameson
Daily Bugle
WandaVision
M. Night Shyalaman
Four-Colour Comics
Masks: A New Generation
Mutants and Masterminds
Curse of the Azure Bonds
Batman Beyond / Batman of the Future
Circus Strongmen
Rob Liefeld
The Voyager 1 and 2 Golden Records
Start Trek: The Motion Picture