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 Seventy – Mad Science: Don’t try this at home kids


The Heroes are defeated, ground down by a controlling society. As the last remaining bastion of ‘otherness’, Mad Scientists reach out to children through the medium of educational television, trying to spark a sense of rebellion in the only people who can still hear them.

Educational Television in a world of Science Heroes, Supergenius Villains, and Pulp Adventurer-Explorers!

For any problem, there’s a technical solution. Even the problems caused by the previous technical solution.
And sometimes the people coming up with those solutions need to be reigned in, before their backyard nuclear reactor contaminates the whole neighborhood.

Alien scientists simultaneously guiding & observing ( and occasionally running from the catastrophic actions of ) the human scientific community.

(Episode updated with actual audio! Apologies, the mad science is strong with this lot. I hope you didn’t strain yourselves trying to hear the absent data. ~ T. Jones )

Paleolithic

Blue Peter

The Tripods, by John Christopher
Logan’s Run
Michael York

NZ Covid Protesters – Convoy 2022 New Zealand

Equilibrium

Necessary Evil

Fallen Angels, by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn

NZ Parliament Buildings

Cook Strait
Picton
Wellington

Atomic Robo RPG

Victor Von Doom / Doctor Doom

Kids On Bikes

Scooby Doo
The Venture Brothers

Inspectres
Flotsam: Adrift Among The Stars

Babylon 5
The Expanse

David Hahn – The Nuclear Boy Scout

A Miracle Of Science

Luddites

Earth Scientists Are All Doc Browns

Doc Brown
Back To The Future

Eureka

Paranoia

Robots Have No Tails, by Henry Kuttner ( & C.L.Moore )
( Craig misremembered this – Gallagher Plus is the name of one of the stories in the collection ~ T. Jones )

Fiasco


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 February 24, 2022  48m