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 Four – Question The Fog
The World Is Over, You Survived – The world ended, society, civilization, and the basic fabric of the land have shattered, and an enormous amount has been lost, including the knowledge of what actually happened. Figuring it out will involve traveling to the scattered fragments of the world, each of which has its own soundtrack.
We’re All Lost In The Fog, And We’re Not Alone – A medieval town is isolated by a thick shifting fog, and threatened by the creatures roaming around inside that fog. But the fog itself seems to be trying to hide the townsfolk, and while people are reporting seeing strange creatures of legend & myth moving around town, they seem to be just as trapped and scared as everyone else.
Kids On Grav Bikes – The adventures of the kids on a Starfleet Ship as they encounter and investigate the sort of things that the Crew just don’t take seriously, occasionally assisted by the mysterious proprietor of the lower deck bagel kiosk.
Edinburgh
Indianapolis
Doctor Who
Gen Con
Buckinghamshire
London Tube
Palladium Books
Rifts
Kevin Siembieda
Pret A Manger
Fate Accessibility Toolkit
Myst
Minas Tirith
Welcome To Night Vale
The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende
Y: The Last Man
Ribbon Drive
Amnesia Moon, by Jonathan Lethem
Gun With Occasional Music, by Jonathan Lethem
The Quiet Year
Microscope
Psi*Run
Songs In The Key Of X
I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream, by Harlan Ellison
Zombie Cinema
Cadfael Chronicles, by Ellis Peters
Frozen 2
Shadowmarch, by Tad Williams
The Mist (movie)
Dresden Files RPG
Atomic Robo RPG
Hutt Valley
Porirua
Stokes Valley
Dunedin
Dannevirke
Bulls
“Carry On” Film Series
Whangarei
Whanganui
Star Trek
Starfleet
Q
The Silence
Star Trek: Prodigy
Captain Kathryn Janeway
Max Headroom
E.T.
Stranger Things