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 Three – Starfleet Bagels
Action-Packed Bagel Delivery – They’re the best bagels in the known universe, and your job is to deliver them. Anywhere. Any time. No matter the odds, the bagels will get through.
Pot-Luck RPG – You’re not the great big heroes, you’re having to do the heroic stuff anyway, and the goal really IS to play with your food.
The Bagel Is Everything – For some reason, bagels are locked out of starship replicators. All starship replicators. Nobody knows why, but your orders are to find out, no matter what it takes.
Secretive Bagels – The Starfleet Bagels chain provides delicious food and a relaxing atmosphere. It also provides intelligence data to Star Fleet.
Yes, But Can The Crew Eat This? – Going to new places, finding new things, and trying to work out whether they’re edible. And assuming that it’s edible for enough of the species in the Federation, getting that food supplied to ships in all the strange places Starfleet ships tend to go.
Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set
Tom Moldvay
Bagel
Dune
Bulldogs!
Soylent Green
Brick Lane, London
Beigel Bake – Brick Lane Bakery
Beyond The Wall and other adventures
Powered By The Apocalypse
A View From The Gallery – Babylon 5
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Paranoia
Gingerbread Kaiju
Star Trek
Section 31
Star Trek: Discovery
Samurai Pizza Cats
Fate Accelerated
Gamma Watch: Boldly Going Where Others Have Boldly Gone Before!