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.

The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast is a leisure podcast hosted by Big Red Couch, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Big Red Couch hosts The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast, a leisure show with 100 episodes published.

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  Gen Con 2024, Some Time Later

  Nov 17, 20241h 9mS0

  <p>Craig went to Gen Con, and is forcing you to hear about it,<br>Ben tries to moderate this audio equivalent of a “What I Did On My Holidays” slideshow,<br>And we ask the audient how they like to do conventions.</p> <p>Tāmaki Makaurau</p> <p>Gen Con</p> <p>New York – New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas</p> <p>Episode One Hundred And Ten – Good news; I have solved the Fermi Paradox. Bad news: I have solved the Fermi Paradox<br>This is the previous Ben & Craig In The Same Room episode, an event of such m...

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  GenCon 2023 Day Five Report

  Aug 8, 202334 minS0

  <p>The fifth day out of “the four best days of gaming”? Is this worst day of gaming? Or the day of worst gaming? </p> <p>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.</p> <p>Professional Game Master Matt Balogh</p> <p>Rapscallion Quickstart by Magpie Games </p>

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  GenCon 2023 Day Four Report

  Aug 7, 202335 minS0

  <p>A tale ripped from the headlines, rude villainy abounds.<br>When is checkout time again?</p> <p>Film – Lorenzo’s_Oil (1992)</p> <p>Gizmodo.com article on GenCon 2023 Card Theft</p> <p>Urban Shadows: Second Edition by Magpie Games – Kickstarter page in fulfillment phase.</p> <p>Rapscallion Quickstart also by Magpie Games </p> <p>Family Tettigoniidae – Kaydids from all over. (T. Jones – Pretty bog-standard looking grasshoppers, a lot lot of them.) </p> <p>Caedicia simplex or What Katydids look like around these parts (T. Jones – Described as “Makes a feeble chirp in the evening”. Savage. )</p>

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  GenCon 2023 Day Three Report

  Aug 6, 202338 minS0

  <p>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.</p> <p>Orc Stomp XIII 5k Fun Run – (T. Jones ~ Enjoying the note “Tournament: No, this is not a tournament.”)</p> Stealing Stories for the Devil <p>Chew from Imagining Games</p> <p>KiwiRPG – Kēmu Whakatau O Aotearoa – KiwiRPG Week for 2023 was June 10 to 18</p> <p>Wait, Roll That Again by Podcasts Hosted by Alex Marinkovich-Josey (T. Jones ~ It should be noted that Ben’s guess that Alex is “a new gamer” is basel...

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  GenCon 2023 Day Two Report

  Aug 5, 202321 minS0

  <p>The promise of glorious perspiration hangs in the morning air.<br>From waterborne villainy to a terrible hunger, a course is plotted.<br>Hope, and sturdy footwear, may yet carry the day.</p> Quickstart (Rapscallion) <p>Avatar Legends by Magpie Games</p> <p>Chew from Imagining Games</p> Stealing Stories for the Devil

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