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 Four – Courtly Submarine Warfare
To My Esteemed Undersea Colleague – Beneath the ice of Europa, isolated Mecha Pilots on long patrols stay in touch by writing letters back & forth
Aquapastoral – Flooding can be expected after a storm, but nobody expected the water to be 30 feet above the farmhouse roof, and they certainly didn’t expect the water to politely stay outside of the house itself.
Jousting ‘Neath The Waves – Once the submarine battles between the sea-dwarf & human kingdoms came to an end, the various rulers needed to find something to keep their combat-ready & easily-bored warriors from breaking the peace.
IKEA Ivar Chair
Inverness
Bette Midler
Beaches ( Movie from 1988, demonstrating that Craig has seen too many movies ~ T. Jones )
Episode One Hundred and Fifty Four – Drab Majesty
San Francisco
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
Zodiac, by Neal Stephenson
Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
D20 Go
Bad Taste (movie)
Waiheke Island
Motukorea / Browns Island
SIGNAL//r021 by Hexavexagon
Signal Seed by Hexavexagon
Epistolary
Europa
Iron Lung (game)
Five Nights At Freddies
De Profundis
Castle Falkenstein
Dugong
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
The Walrus & The Carpenter, by Lewis Carroll
Studio Ghibli
Spirited Away
Ponyo / Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
Pom Poko
Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast
Possum Creek Games
Wanderhome
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
Done & Been, by Gypsy Moon
Chuck Tingle
The Tingleverse: The Official Chuck Tingle Role-Playing Game ( Amazon Link )
chucktingle.com ( I’m honestly not sure whether this is NSFW or not ~ T. Jones )
Red November
Burning Wheel
Cool Runnings
A Knight’s Tale
America’s Cup
Blue Max
Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game
Archer