The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast

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 Eight – A Big Red Christmas


Craig tries to combine A Christmas Carol with Solo Shifts on a Spaceship, and fails, but Ben recovers the idea

Ben pitches the idea of a Clip Show Holiday Episode of an RPG campaign, as a way to look back on the game so far & a sneaky way to see which bits the players remember the most

The regulars at a dive bar are called upon, at Christmas Eve, to make a Christmas Miracle occur. It’s not going to be easy, the situation is probably already out of control, and it all has to happen by Christmas Morning

With Christmas looming, inexplicable anonymous helpful acts are being performed. Is it Elves? Kindly House Spirits? Or is something leaking through from the Gigantic Research Facility next to the town?

WanderHome
Apocalypse World
Exalted
Werewolf: The Apocalypse

RPG.net Forums

GURPS

The Muppet Christmas Carol
Cargo
Pandorum
Z Nation
Passengers

A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens

The Full Monty

Murderous Ghosts

Restless – Buffy the Vampire Slayer (S4E22)

Gideon The Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

Christmas Mince Pie

Kids On Bikes

Home Alone
The Santa Clause

Blades In The Dark

Prep & Landing

The 13 Yule Lads

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Eureka

Tales From The Loop (RPG)
Tales From The Loop (Book)

Stranger Things

Episode One Hundred And Sixty Six – We can make anything into a dumpling. Anything.


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