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The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
Big Red Couch
100 episodes
8 months ago
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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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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Games
Leisure
Episodes (20/100)
The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
Gen Con 2024, Some Time Later
Craig went to Gen Con, and is forcing you to hear about it,Ben tries to moderate this audio equivalent of a “What I Did On My Holidays” slideshow,And we ask the audient how they like to do conventions. Tāmaki Makaurau Gen Con New York – New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas Episode One […]
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11 months ago
1 hour 8 minutes 41 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
GenCon 2023 Day Five Report
The fifth day out of “the four best days of gaming”? Is this worst day of gaming? Or the day of worst gaming? Reminiscence, nostalgia, and unhinged grumbling trail in the wake of our hero’s journey, the pains of old wounds and faded glories herald the end of yet another lost era. Professional Game Master […]
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2 years ago
33 minutes 43 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
GenCon 2023 Day Four Report
A tale ripped from the headlines, rude villainy abounds.When is checkout time again? Film – Lorenzo’s_Oil (1992) Gizmodo.com article on GenCon 2023 Card Theft Urban Shadows: Second Edition by Magpie Games – Kickstarter page in fulfillment phase. Rapscallion Quickstart also by Magpie Games Family Tettigoniidae – Kaydids from all over. (T. Jones – Pretty bog-standard […]
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2 years ago
34 minutes 36 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
GenCon 2023 Day Three Report
Despite the Southern chill these flames still burn brightly and while the Devil dances in the hearth, he may have bitten off more than he can chew. Orc Stomp XIII 5k Fun Run – (T. Jones ~ Enjoying the note “Tournament: No, this is not a tournament.”) Chew from Imagining Games KiwiRPG – Kēmu Whakatau […]
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2 years ago
38 minutes 25 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
GenCon 2023 Day Two Report
The promise of glorious perspiration hangs in the morning air.From waterborne villainy to a terrible hunger, a course is plotted.Hope, and sturdy footwear, may yet carry the day. Avatar Legends by Magpie Games Chew from Imagining Games
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2 years ago
20 minutes 34 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
GenCon 2023 Day One Report
An iron steed shies at the thunder of the Old Gods.The dawn of a new age, as life stirs on a blasted plane.At some point… breakfast. Well There’s Your Problem Podcast – A podcast (with slides) about engineering disasters and systemic fail. Precision_Railroading AKA precision scheduled railroading (PSR) The Old Gods of Appalachia Podcast and […]
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2 years ago
24 minutes 2 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
GenCon 2023 Reports Inbound
What’s this? A new episode? The land quakes and the seas roar, for they have returned like the heroes of old! Well, like old heroes anyway. People. Old people. Never meet your heroes, kids. Biding his time in the foetid swamp of Wah-Shing-Tun, the fearless traveler Craig set his sights on the “four and a […]
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2 years ago
25 minutes 37 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
GenCon 2022 Report for Monday 8th
Now GenCon is over for another year, it is a time for quiet reflection, sensations of creeping dread, and a commitment to doing more gaming. Better even! Yes, this is late. We are so, so tired. Tentacle Town Le Chat Noir Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior The Underarm bowling incident of 1981 Dr Nick Holm: how […]
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3 years ago
22 minutes 20 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
GenCon 2022 Report for Sunday 7th
As the day dawns on the morning of the last day of GenCon for another year, Craig reminisces about this convention’s atmosphere and a strange sense of gamer melancholy. Wayfaring Strangers by Games from the Wild Wood Talismonger – Shadowrun slang Simple Simon (nursery rhyme) TV – Supernatural Alice Isn’t Dead TV – The Sandman […]
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3 years ago
32 minutes 51 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
GenCon 2022 Report for Saturday 6th
The second report from Craig's GenCon 2022 trip.
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3 years ago
43 minutes 2 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
GenCon 2022 Report for Friday 5th
Craig's first report from GenCon 2022.
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3 years ago
30 minutes 43 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
Episode One Hundred And Seventy Five – Gangsters Of Dreams / Goosedusa
Activate The Goose-ducer! – Descendants of an end-of-days science experiment battle the descendants of a different end-of-days science experiment through the use of yet another end-of-days science experiment. The Dream Police Want To Make Sure That Nothing Is Inside Your Head – Dreaming is illegal, Science Rays ensure that nobody dreams, and Z-Leggers smuggle stolen […]
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3 years ago
1 hour 6 minutes 3 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
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 […]
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3 years ago
1 hour 14 minutes 35 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
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 […]
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3 years ago
1 hour 8 minutes 31 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
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 […]
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3 years ago
1 hour 19 minutes 41 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
Episode One Hundred And Seventy One – It’s a Mad Max Utopia!
Be Our Guest? – Ever since the actual apocalypse, the Hosts at the Apocalypse World park really haven’t had a lot to do. Now that some Guests in dire need of help have arrived, a group of ‘wasteland marauders’ and ‘besieged remnants of civilization’ have to figure out how to bypass their own programmed scripts […]
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3 years ago
1 hour 4 minutes 52 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
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, […]
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3 years ago
48 minutes 32 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
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’. […]
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3 years ago
56 minutes 44 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
Episode One Hundred And Sixty Eight – A Big Red Christmas
Craig tries to combine A Christmas Carol with Solo Shifts on a Spaceship, and fails, but Ben recovers the idea Ben pitches the idea of a Clip Show Holiday Episode of an RPG campaign, as a way to look back on the game so far & a sneaky way to see which bits the players […]
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3 years ago
1 hour 4 minutes 22 seconds

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast
Actual Play 1 – Wanderhome
Ben, Craig, & Special Guest Terry attempt to get to grips with the “pastoral fantasy” RPG Wanderhome, and probably succeed, in our first approximate actual play episode. Wanderhome, by Jay Dragon, can be purchased from Possum Creek Games. Wanderhome is a pastoral fantasy role-playing game about traveling animal-folk, the world they inhabit, and the way […]
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3 years ago
1 hour 30 minutes 52 seconds

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.