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Tonya builds a game around the experience of dreaming, with players as elements of the dream, Craig dispenses advice for navigating massive urban societal dissolution, Ben presents the City as an Out-Of-Context alien environment, and Kev explains a dreamscape where arbitrary rules accumilate & build upon each other.
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Kevin takes us to the Development Conference for the early Universe, Craig imagines Winter Festivals where the atmosphere falls as rain, and also considers Citizenship in a vastly less united U.S.A., Tonya proposes a world where Our State Fair Is The Best State Fair, Or I’ll Cut You, and Gulo T. brings us the Trade & Exchange of Emotional States.
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In which Craig pitches an Omega Squad that makes good in spite of themselves, Kevin calls operatives from WWII who must overcome memory blocks in order return to service, Tonya pitches a Daring Heist from the Teapot Museum (well, Kevin does it for her,) Gulo T. repairs a terraforming project before anyone finds out it broke and Ben sends a good-hearted Private Military Force to save children from a nefarious Industrialist.
Also, we spoil your appetites, and the plot to a certain Tim Burton movie. We are not sorry.
It’s just gone midnight here in New Zealand, so, from the Couch to our Audient, Happy Holidays, Merry Gaming, and have a good one.
Craig.
Hope you are all having a nice, relaxing day, with plenty of healthy and unhealthy treats and drinks to keep you through the season.
May your coming year be full of stability, joy, love, togetherness and all that jazz. May your dark moments be short and easily dispelled. May your needs be met and your wants be few.
Tonya.
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Educating Children and their Monsters together, in the hopes that it’ll socialise them.
How do you re-integrate supernatural prisoners with society, and what happens when things go wrong?
The social ramifications of schooling in a world where the D&D monsters have emerged.
Psychic Children, Regular Schools.
Tonight on “The Quest For The Next Big Horror Icon”, …
Refugee surface-dwellers try to make a new home in the Dungeons.
Hello Audient!
We at the Big Red Couch have been having chats about making things a bit better around here. We have decided that our buffer needs to be a bit bigger, but that we can do that in such a way as it make it easier for you to see what’s coming up and where we are up to in the editing process.
So here’s what’s happening. Sometime soon the Coming Up On The Big Red Couch page will sprout not only a bunch of new cards, but also some bookends. These will tell you important things like:-
-Which shows have been recorded and edited, (so any responses you have will probably end up in bonus episodes,)
-Which are in the process of editing, (so any responses you have might be able to be spliced in if you hurry, or else bonus pile.)
-And which are merely wobbling around in our heads like newly hatched quadrapeds, (so any responses you have can be added in and responded to as part of the show.)
You will still have the option of sending us stuff in text or mp3, or just slapping stuff into the comments.
Wish us luck for the upcoming Drawapolooza!
{Edit: because I forgot he was going to do this until I saw him doing it,)
Because it is very nearly a whole new year, Craig is making us an Archive. That means you won’t have to click the Back button quite so much if you happen to want to listen to our very early shows again (or read the associated show notes) because it will be it’s very own tab thingee in the sidebar. Although you can do it the hard way if you want. That’s cool too.
The kindly folks of The Gutter Skypes invited us to playtest a Fiasco scenario with them, and Tonya and Kev were able to attend.
If anyone is interested in hearing us play an Actual Game with real live humans (rather than Craig and Ben, though that just raises more questions…) the show is Session 127 available here.
Mark Kinney from All Games Considered was our guide and native-bearer for Fiasco, which was particularly relevant given we’d never played the game before and Kev in particular had No Clue. (You can tell.) Anim, Nikki, and Andros from The Gutter Skypes leant their talents to the escapades, and Fun Was Had.
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Ben thinks about Norse Gods having personal responsibility for the days named after them, and how that can’t possibly go wrong.
Tonya imagines “Moon-shining With The Stars”
Craig considers who you call when you find something really strange on a battlefield, and what that call might be.
Kev suggests a pirate radio station in a world of super-heroes & super-villains, trying to make the world a better place.
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Craig imagines a traveling band, Gulo T. wonders about finding & transporting a much-needed specialist who might not want to go, Kev tries to find a safe place for crypto-boffins in a post-serpent world, Tonya looks at the Convention industry, and Ben goes Meta.
Really Meta.
Hi everybody!
Some more changes have gone live, with more to come over the next few weeks.
Our Game Resources page has updated with some new content, including more characters adapted into Fate Accelerated Edition, some characters adapted to Fate Core from FAE as a comparison, and some archived transcripts of play.
We also have a new hub page for RPG reviews. The plan is to migrate reviews done years ago for other sites onto this page, while also creating new reviews for newer games. We have a new review of Fate Accelerated Edition up now, along with comparative reviews of both the One Roll Engine and Strange Fate editions of The Kerberos Club from a few years ago. More reviews will appear as we go.
As ever, any responses or feedback will be greatly appreciated!
– Kev.