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 Nine – I Set The Filter To “Adventure”
A safe but dull utopia has an unexpected need for people who can go outside of the norm and venture into dangerous situations.
They’re a bit light on those, as a society, but by relaxing the constraints a bit on the psych profiles, they’ve got some candidates who are within a few standard deviations of ‘Adventurous’.
Oneironauts journey into a patient’s psyche to guide them through constructed scenarios to a better mental state.
Unfortunately, pushing on one part of a personality has a tendency to make it push back from somewhere else, …
Auckland, NZ
Frostpunk (game)
Jack London
Farley Mowat
Futurama
Myers–Briggs Type Indicator
Star Trek: The Original Series
[FTL Y’all] The Age of the $200 hyperdrive
Radio Shack
Paranoia
Logan’s Run
Wanderhome
Flatpack
Fallout (game series)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (game)
The City and the Stars, by Arthur C. Clarke
( Ben is basically recounting the use case of the Mini DC from this film, but I’ll allow it ~ T. Jones )
Paprika (2006) by Satoshi Kon
Adventure Time
Calvin and Hobbes
Episode One Hundred And Thirty Two – (Big Red) Couch Surfing
Ludo
Fate Core
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
Interpreting The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as an allegory for monetary policy
( now there’s a sentence I never thought I’d type ~ T. Jones )
Torg
Carl Jung
Sigmund Freud
Inception
The Road To Wellville
John Harvey Kellogg
Episode Ninety Seven – My story is essentially the tale of Juan Bobo, only dumber
Traveller 2300 / 2300 AD
Zardoz
Mad Max 2
Civilization (game series)
The Red Elvises