Red Rose Games
Our goal is to allow you, the player or gamemaster, to become a part of the worlds you love—create your own narratives, play as inspired characters, and change the story as you see fit. With Red Rose Games, you’ll find the building blocks to unleash your creativity in any game you play.
Have A Favorite World? Now You Can Play In It!
Dungeon Race RPG
Jeri “Red” Shepherd’s faction-raced RPG with long-play and short-shot options, is based on your favorite worlds from novels and other exciting creative properties. DRR grew out of an idea that sprouted in one of her one-page RPG workshops, was developed over the course of a year alongside an amazing gamemaster team and in partnership with numerous conventions and game stores, and ultimately came to life with additional contributions from her professional partner, Tiffany “Rose” Nickel. We look forward to bringing more novels and properties to this awesome new system!
Overview:
Part TTRPG/Part Board Game, this core-D6 system that utilizes the full set of polyhedral dice, and all sorts of other fun pieces, introduces completely unique mechanics including the use of Passion and Resistance to accomplish goals, limited health rejuvenation, cross-adventure interactions, and—in short play—a clock to drive the adrenaline of your playing experience! The game playtested for a full year at prestigious events around the nation including Gary Con’s 50th D&D Anniversary, Gen Con’s largest ever convention, and a dozen more events at conventions and game stores. Core Book Available Spring 2025!
Launched:
Gen Con 2024
Play Tested:
Gary Con 2024
Our Inaugural Settings:
Is SCIENCE FICTION your jam? Enjoy Earth After The Melt, a world book based on the Broken Fault Lines series of books. Humanity clings to survival on the last remnants of arable land in Earth After The Melt. The final refuges, known as the “High Point Bases,” are surrounded by a vast, storm-ridden ocean. As at least spaceborne, waterborne, and landborne, characters, under the direction of the Human Unification Movement, the ultimate goal is the daunting task of outfitting a space-worthy to take survivors off-world until Earth is habitable again. In this perilous environment, the competition is fierce, as all are seeking survival from a drowning world. Campaign Book Available Summer 2025!
Maybe you’re more of a HIGH FANTASY fan? Enjoy Limoria, a world book based on the Legends of Limoria series of books. Become a legend in the high fantasy world before it is fractured beyond repair, taking its people down with it. Race to shut the portals between worlds before their opening destroys everything and everyone across the world and many realms. Enjoy building truly unique characters who are at least landborne, realmborne, or idolborne to begin your adventures in the world of Limoria. But beware, in this realm with communities in the ground and air alike, not everybody wishes to keep the portals closed! Campaign Book Available Summer 2025!
Co-Developers:
Jeri ‘Red’ Shepherd Tiffany ‘Rose’ Nickel
And watch for our Core Box Kickstarter with Both Worlds Coming Fall of 2025!
Play how you want to play!
1-Page Dice Dungeons
Tiffany “Rose” Nickel, inspired by a friend’s goblin world, created a portable RPG system with simple mechanics. Jeri “Red” Shepherd contributed core elements from the Dungeon Race RPG (DRR) system and her One-Page RPG structure. Tiffany brought it home with a clean format that condensed both the dice systems and the adventures onto a single page. Prologues, epilogues, and flash fiction were added, and—when all was said and done—the co-creators had 1-Page Dice Dungeons (1PDD). The duo alternates creating unique rulesets, worlds, and adventures in those worlds. The rulesets are world/adventure-agnostic and the worlds/adventures are system-agnostic, meaning you can truly play how you want to play. These roleplay-centric, streamlined systems remove complex mechanics, making 1PDDs easy for both new and experienced players. Play anywhere with just one page, a dice app, and friends.
The lower the die, the harder the dungeon! Try each adventure with a different ruleset for an entirely new experience!
Check out our featured 1PDD offerings below. Or shop them all by world or in the full shop!
Fantasy—Horror—Sci-Fi—Steampunk
Delve into favorite world below:
Make sure to read the free Flash Fictions!
Co-Developers:
Tiffany ‘Rose’ Nickel Jeri ‘Red’ Shepherd
UPCOMING GAMES
UPCOMING GAMES
Midwinter Gaming Classic
The Ingleside — Pewaukee WI
January 10 & 11th
Gary Con
Venue
TBA
TO BE DETERMINED
Gift Cards
Want To Publish Your Own Game?
Coming in 2025
Red Rose Works is the proud new publisher of Bright Goblin Games by a member of our own family of Gamemasters, Jason Johnson. His first system, Fiendish Fate, is a full-length rule system that has been developed over decades. Hold onto your health, because Jason is also known for being ruthless in a good game of Cthulhu Stay tuned for more information and play opportunities for Bright Goblin Games’ action-packed, creature heavy TTRPG system from Red Rose Games.