The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast

Extradimensional Horrors Desperately Try To Save Humanity, Hampered By The Fact That Their Devoted Followers Are Evil Idiots A Travelling Caravan For The Relocation & Re-purposing Of Slightly Used Gods Accidental Renaissance It’s actually called ‘Ya Mama’ Christopher Walken Ponzi Scheme H.P. Lovecraft Cthulhu Mythos Dagon A Fire Upon The Deep , by Vernor Vinge The Hitchhiker&...

Trees Hate Us; They’ve found ways to influence people & get into their thoughts, and now, not even paper is safe The forests are desperately trying to redress an imbalance, but from a human point of view that looks a whole lot like people up and vanishing into the woods. Big Paulie’s crew ended up owning the forest as part of a failed development scam, and when Carmine took over, h...

A group of total strangers who are distresingly familiar to each other attempt to work out what disaster befel their city, why they feel like they had something to do with it, and whether it could happen again. The Universe is broken, the backup is corrupted, and you’re trying to rebuild from your own hazy memories of what it was like. And maybe sneak in some improvements at the same time. T...

The AI cast members at the theme park became a vital part of the experience; A wild assortment of characters you could talk to who would always remember your name and were always happy to see you. Then things fell apart, and the people stopped coming, and the cast members found themselves without anything to do. So they went out to find out where the guests had gone. Rather than put people in unco...

Trapped by the snow, the handful of passengers on a stranded air-liner find themselves retreading a classic story. A Jovian gas extraction platform unexpectedly loses communication with it’s drill-head deep in the atmosphere below. Has the far end met with technical malfunction, a mutiny by the crew (or machinery), or something more sinister? The first summit between the zombie nation and th...

Ben has a thesis on the role and point of travel in games, and the role and point of the encounters along the way. Deities of the Land deal with a threat to their domain and the people living there; Possibly in between shifts at work. Plucky youngsters save their home by enlisting the aid of the Spirit of the Town itself. Teams of couriers venture through slightly alternate realities to keep their...

Couch-Hoppers – A mysterious ‘game’ found in a thrift store couch leads to hours of fun as you try to navigate alternate universes to find your way home. Our Alternate Feed – A podcast discovers episodes they never made, in which people who sound and act just like them discuss events that never happened and things that don’t exist. Remembering Big Red – A year a...

Taz suggests a solo hex-crawler about exploring & prospecting to supply a newly founded colony. “We have to remake the world in order to save it” isn’t a situation that anyone wanted to get to, but once we found ourselves at that point, it’s understandable that the panicked re-making might not go 100% as planned. Now, hand me that update for equine bio-accumulation &amp...

Time travellers attempting to blend in run into problems when they don’t know that they’re not using the right language. Cheesy 80’s Kids Shows, where sly end-of-episode comments are a private joke between the protagonists and the audience. Corporate executives combine the powers of their ludicrously expensive watches to form … Captain OfIndustry! Backwards & Ford: Gerald For...

Personifications of games emerge when the need is greatest to rally the forces of gamers in battle against an Alien Menace. Alien Invaders arrive, looking for the most loyal representative of Earth to battle for dominance in a symbolic competition. Owing to poor translation skills and the inability to imagine that anyone might do things differently, they’ve found the Gen Con booth of Stalwar...

The woefully underfunded members of the  TZMP (Tserkovnyye Zashchitniki Moskovskogo Patriarkhata) must walk a line between keeping a low profile, maintaining interdepartmental peace with the uncanny Night Watch, and the disapproval of the authorities, while still managing to thwart the forces of Hell. Your multi-denominational precinct of peace officers work diligently to maintain law and order, t...

In the post-Brexit dystopia, where any mention of the world outside of the Commonwealth is strictly forbidden, a shadowy folk hero emerged … Cheeky Nando. Working the grill at Nando’s confers awesome martial arts powers via the precise repetition of cunningly-disguised spatula and tong based fighting moves. Cheeky Nando is friendly, charming, helpful, and the local Necromancer. The Cheeky Na...

In which Ben goes back to a Big Red Couch standard notion of “something on a spaceship”, despite Craig having taken the approach of deliberately NOT doing something set on a spaceship. Not only is the ship fractured, but so is the crew, so turned against each other that they can’t save themselves. If you can just get these knuckleheads to work together, or even just get the hell...

You don’t call a place the “Witch Planet” because you like it, or the people who live on it, and you don’t do so without a cause. And you don’t go to live on the “Witch Planet” without a reason. And while the original settlers of a place may be content with the ignore & be ignored status quo, their children may not feel the same way. And that’s w...

Programmable biological workers make it so much easier to set up a colony world, because you can reconfigure them as your colony develops. Of course, if something goes wrong on the way there, the ship’s systems might find themselves trying to repair a starship with a worker build who think the telegraph is a pretty neat idea, … When the colony ship fell out of orbit, it set the bio-workers t...

The Imperial Tomb is a model of the afterlife, and holds the remains of Emperors, Governors, and Important People; It is, quite literally, the Tomb of the Empire. And when the conditions are just right, the model becomes real, and the Tomb becomes a gateway to the afterlife. That’s when the gravediggers have to put back whatever leaks out. How do you even make a Zombie Medical Drama RPG? The...

Craig keeps thinking of ideas he really doesn’t want to make a game of. What happens when the worship band for a Cthulhu Cult get noticed by a producer & start to make it big? What about when the band start to see that there’s a much bigger world out there, and want to move away from the cult that’s literally in their DNA? What happens when your quaint & folksy chant to D...

Becoming the Imperial Gardener is a huge honour, but maybe not a welcome one when all you really want to do is work alongside your colleagues to tend plants and create a beautiful space. The Royal Gardeners don’t prune plants, but people, working in secret to weed out disloyalty. To stop them from getting too powerful, they’re sometimes ordered to find and eliminate another gardener. G...

Behind The Screens At An Ageing Arcade, Videogame Characters Try To Keep The Machines Running & Cover Up Glitches Before Anyone Notices. In Desperate Times, A Psychic Blue Whale & A Team Of Sea Creatures Take To The Skies. A Group Of Strangers Awaken, With No Memory Of How They Got There & Plenty Of Supplies, In A Tranquil & Cozy Environment Named Alitulo Ambergris Sperm Whale Blue...

Audient Contribution! InSpectres hacked into a renovation contest show. Will you race to repair and exorcise a spooky fixer-upper to sell it on, or… …rejuvenate a legitimately haunted dwelling, taking both the needs of the living and the dead into account? In a fusion of a reality TV shared house and an escape room, the contestants must work together to succeed. But there seems to be o...

Genre-themed Librarians battle the forces of evil. Quietly. A venue shared between the Summer & Winter Courts of Faerie transitions from a generations-long reign of summer into an unexpected winter primacy. A nightclub which serves as a refuge from the dark. Plucky clubbers work together to save their beloved nightclub, without 100% understanding the backstory as to why it’s being sold....

With a special guest appearance by every damn bird in the area You are the ultra powerful, “last resort” of your super hero team. You are capable of so much, but can you restrain your abilities well enough? Sailor scouts from multiple dimensions converge to confront a terrible threat. And their own bizarre counterparts. Travelling between remote communities, an amateur detective attemp...

  When your team’s quarry suddenly takes up holy orders, you have to reassess. Is their sudden repentance genuine? Even if it isn’t, acquiring your target becomes much harder when they’re living in an environment where you can’t blend in because everybody knows what everyone looks like. …and maybe they have chosen that particular place because they know something...

  Masked grapplers travel between isolated settlements, their performance thrilling the crowds and providing a sense of safety and justice.  In the wastes between, they live the battles in truth. The monsters hide their faces to pass among us.  Are their intentions ill, or have the evils they have fought warped them in turn? The subjects of unsanctioned experiments escape with the aid of newl...

People and objects changing from greyscale to colour is a wonderful way to depict change, be it in aspects of the world, or in the world you inhabit. But from the point of view of someone who’s accustomed to a greyscale world, it’d look uncannily, possibly horrifically, wrong. Colour has been leeched from the world by Our Oppressive Grey Overlords, but a few members of the resistance h...