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On this episode of the Big Red Couch;

A pub band must deal with necromantically faulty equipment, and adventurers travel incognito to protect their spoils.

The scarred veterans of a literal battle against disease face their foes, magnified to a human scale.

Goat Tranquility – Tonight! One show only! Doors open at 11pm, the hellish vortex at midnight!

Surviving minions of the dark overlord are force to save the world.
The only people in their way are the heroes who brought their former masters to justice.

Explorers “fax” copies of themselves into hostile environments, gathering clues with each successive, fatal attempt.

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Fantasy forensics teams deal with  evidence from beyond the veil.

Rival agencies battle for control via helpful necromancy.

If your world is built on the backs of the undead, what do you do when they start thinking for
themselves?

The unkillable party. The unsurvivable dungeon. Fight!

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The only way that Superheroes & Supervillans can keep their children from becoming the pawns in other people’s schemes is by putting them all in the one place, so that everyone, regardless of outlook, has a reason to protect them all.
Baby Steps; Trying to rehabilitate, or more accurately habilitate, very young metahumans.
Kindergarteners attempt a breakout from the high-security supermax environment they imagine themselves to be incarcerated within.

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What threat could be so terrible that it requires a team-up of multiple possible versions of Elvis, and will they release a soundtrack album when it’s dealt to?
Don’t you step in that blue suede sector; Elvis-themed Paranoia
Can anyone truly say who an Elvis Impersonator is?

Will wrote in with some suggestions;
A zoo management games makes “Snake Style vs. Monkey Style” an issue of branding, marketing, giving the visitors the best experience, and given that it’s a competitive situation, probably some sabotage along the way.
Never mind the market for Soylent Bubba, what’s at stake here is the removal of defenceless cows from the Fast-Foodchain. and their replacement with cruelty-free soyburgers; Thus the Great SoyCow Heist begins.

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“Hey kids!  There will be some really good adverts coming after this horrible cartoon!”

• A gang of “groovy kids” scour the land for an unearthly high.
• A cadre of spiritual debunkers conceal their true beliefs from one another as they look for their own dark truths.
• A travelling order of monks seek to save communities from evil and unmask frauds preying on the credulous.
• An animal guide ushers lost souls through purgatory.

Also contains three bonus audient submissions!  Warning!  Choking hazard!

Two for Episode 52 – “It only hurts when I laugh.”;

• Will pitches a two part espionage extraction mission to a frozen prison for a political prisoner.
• Alex follows with a creature that is vulnerable to laughter and the quest find its nemesis.  We do terrible things with the idea.  Including clowns.

And one for Episode 56 – “Five Political Assassinations, Four Political Collapses; My Work Is Done.”;

• Taz hears wedding bells ringing over the stabbings and bombings of the geopolitical wet-work.

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A team of action heroes belatedly realise that they’re ushering in the apocalypse.
Manipulating the timeline, or possibly fixing it after someone else has messed with it, by killing off the responsible party in a non-suspicious manner.
Vigilante Justice Makes Me A Better Healthcare Provider.
What happens when your elite regime-toppling operative has a crisis of conscience before the job is done?

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There was a glitch, by which I mean mistake, in editing, and the Introduction ended up over the top of the start of the episode.
I don’t think anything vital was obscured, but in any case, it’s fixed now.
What’s important is that you all know that it was Craig’s fault.
~ T. Jones

In our Most Canadian of Episodes yet, we are joined by Rob and welcome back John, who appeared on Episode 51.

• A hallowed cultural event is dogged by a deadly curse.  Can the Royal Space Canadian Mounted Space Police spare this year’s event?! And what happened to the last dozen?
• An advanced and morally questionable civilization plays a game with entire worlds in the balance.
• A physics defying test of skill and nerve becomes a matter of life and death when the Universe’s rules refuse to stay over-turned.
• Asteroid mining is a difficult, dangerous, lonely, and cold.   The games some of the miners play are even darker still.

Contains references to the noble sport of Curling.  Described on the show by avowed non-experts as “like Sideways Darts with a Broom” and “a cross between Lawn Bowls and Housework”.

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In this episode, we review The Dresden Files RPG Volume 3: The Paranet Papers, discover that there are gaming ideas that we’re not prepared to play, run, or share a room with, and come up with a possible new segment for the Big Red Couch; Dumb-Ass Gaming Ideas.

We start the show, after some introductory yammering, with a review of The Dresden Files RPG Volume 3: The Paranet Papers, by Evil Hat Productions, who were kind enough to send us an electronic preview copy. The review concludes at about the 21 minute mark with a condensed version of our thoughts, and then goes into what we laughably call the content of our show, which contains such ideas as;

• An unpleasant corporation seeks trading opportunities between Alternate Earths, and will attempt to profit from anything.
• What sort of monstrous things are you prepared to do in order to bring down an evil mega-corp?
• The advantage of working for a cartoonishly evil multi-universal corporate entity is that idiotic & cartoonish methods of resistance are really quite effective.

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