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 Two – An Unusual Amount Of Elvis
Presley Event Overload – The timeline is fracturing under a cascade of divergence events, splitting faster than they can be investigated, let alone dealt with. There’s no clear pattern to what’s happening, though a certain 20th Century musician seems to be affected by more of the changes than mere coincidence would permit.
The Mystery Of The King Beyond The Stars – In the far future, at a multi-species gathering of devotees of Elvis, someone who clearly does not have Elvis in their heart (or hearts) (or decentralised circulatory system) has stolen one of the most treasured artifacts of The King.
Elvis: The Legendary Tours – Wandering Hero Elvis & his friends encounter more and more Elvis impersonators, people who heard rumors of the death of The King & have decided to take up the Sequined Mantle. Clearly his evil half-brother Abbot Costello is involved, but what other tricks does the pretender to the throne of Graceland have lined up?
Elvis Presley
Colonel Tom Parker
Dalek
Cult of Skaro
Timewatch
Loki (TV)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
The Trousers Of Time
Priscilla Presley
Amphetamines
Looks like Craig remembered “Dark Futures” slightly wrong; Dark Future was a miniatures wargame from GDW. There was a novel, Comeback Tour, which is set in the world of the game & is the thing with Col. Presley that Craig remembered.
~ T. Jones
Clarke County, Space, by Allen Steele
Among Us
3000 Miles To Graceland
Almost Elvis (documentary)
Bubba Ho-Tep
Suspicious Minds (song)
Elvis ( a.k.a. ’68 Comeback Special )
Judge Dredd
Beyond 2000
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Captain Marvel Jr.
Shroud of Turin
British Museum
Psi*Run
Paranoia
Dread (rpg)
Dread: Dredd (new edition of Dread)
Fiasco
SHINOBIGAMI: Modern Ninja Battle RPG
Diana: Warrior Princess
Elvis: The Legendary Tours
John had a lot of links ~ T. Jones
Chinese Elvis
Black Elvis
Heavy Metal Elvis
Female Elvis
Sumo Elvis
The Heavy Metal Fox deity worshiping kitsune, Yoji Metal (a.k.a. Baby Metal)
Techno Elvis wants to replace the organic version with his Cybernetic, Algorithmically Derived Music
And Goth Elvis just wants to see the world burn
The Flying Elvises
Red Elvises
Six String Samurai
Fallout: New Vegas
David Bowie
Major Tom
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Xena: Warrior Princess
Atlantis
Kevin Sorbo
Andromeda
The Emperor’s New Groove
Your Crimes Are Known. The Frog Council Sits In Judgement.
Image of Elvis Presley by George Hodan
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