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 Six – We can make anything into a dumpling. Anything.
The Potstickers of Dorian Gray – When unexplained events occur, when there’s no rational explanation, and when you desperately need to keep things quiet so that the FBI doesn’t notice what you’re up to, your only hope is Those Meddling Kids.
Cultural Misappropriation: The RPG – To protect our culture from the Humans, we will put in place a layer of memes to distract them.
Dumpling Masters – When your ( and everyone else’s ) magic is infused into food, it can quite literally go stale.
Guy Fawkes Night
(Proposed) Irish Sea Bridge
Dumpling
Cornish Pasty
Samosa
Kids On Bikes
Potsticker vs. Dumpling
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Telepathic Murder Ghosts Coming Out Of The Trees
Stargate: Atlantis
Wakanda
Gary Farmer
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers
Ryuutama: Natural Fantasy RPG
Wanderhome
* Punk
Earthdawn
AetherStream Interceptor
Renegade Legion: Interceptor
Mothership
Hayao Miyazaki
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Fate Accelerated Edition
Earthsea Cycle, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Gumshoe
Atomic Robo RPG
The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells
The X Card
Script Change
For The Queen
FASA
Cube
Questlandia
The Secret of NIMH
Land Of The Giants
Boeing Everett Factory, Washington
Mystery Men
Diaspora
The Gone-Away World, by Nick Harkaway
Vampire: The Masquerade
Champions
GURPS
Telempath, by Spider Robinson