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 Three – Pastry-Fu: Crouching Cruller, Hidden Donut


Donuts & Crullers – Ben starts to make a game about a TV Genre he hates, and ends up inventing a card mechanic for cooking competitions.

24/7 Coffee & Questions – Craig tries to come up with an explanation for the “high-level adventurer running a tavern” trope, and ends up with a mystery hiding in plain sight.

The Bangers & Mash Are Coming! – The International Food section of the Grocery Isles is under threat from the Anglican Food Empire, and the East Asian Pastries are all that stands to protect them from an endless beige buffet.

Kiwi RPG Week 2022

The Winter of Our Discontent
Bath, Somerset

Narrowboat

Cruller
Donut

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ang Lee

Dunkin’ Donuts
Baker Street, London
Sherlock Holmes

Whenuapai Airbase
C-130 Hercules

Stephen Chow
The God Of Cookery

Masterchef Australia

Castle Falkenstein

Borough Market
Greenwich Market

Warren Buffet

The Dresden Files RPG
Shadowrun

Jackie Chan
Kung Fu Hustle

The Vegi-Verse / Big Shopping Cart / The Grocery Isles have come up in a few episodes by now ~ T. Jones
Episode One Hundred And Forty Five – The Case Of The Accidental Battered Sausage

Episode Eighty One – Banana Warriors Of Dimension X

Episode One Hundred And Forty Seven – From Me To You; A Free Gift Of Soul Dust

Wikipedia list of Chinese Bakery products

Mascot-tan

Kantai Collection / Kantai Korekushon

OS-tan

UK Data Loader

Tsundere Beholder

Gunboat Diplomacy

Strontium Dog
The Munch Bunch

2000AD

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness
Gamma World

VeggieTales

Cherry 2000
Mad Max
Rollerblade Warriors
( One of a series of Post-Apocalyptic Rollerblade Action movies by Donald G. Jackson. Craig has seen some, but not all of them. We judge him for this, and we are right to do so. ~ T. Jones )
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn

Admiral Zeng He


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