“Subject: Is a duck a valid boss monster?”
 “Subject: How many elbows should a lich have?”
 “Subject: Does fireball count as emotional damage?”

These are real email subjects from inside Red Cape Games. They have a whiteboard that just says ‘Dice?’.

One of their designers tried to roll initiative using a sandwich.

The truth must be known.”

“We, a proud collective of freelance Elves and unwilling Goblin interns, played Dungeon Dunce for three sessions.

Here’s what happened:

• The wizard exploded from joy.
  
  
• The fighter fell in love with a mimic.
  
  
• The rogue turned into a tax liability.
  
  
• The door boss critted all of us, emotionally and literally.
  
  

We laughed. We cried. We screamed at a kettle. 1/10, would traumatically bond again.”

“We’ve seen the internal memos. We’ve intercepted the snack orders. Dungeon Dunce isn’t a game, it’s a weapon. Designed to divide families, derail dinner plans, and cause dice-based breakdowns in at least three age brackets.

Early drafts included rules for flammable kittens and a monster called ‘The Screaming Stepdad.’ These were cut, but the intent remains.

Protect your sprogs. Ban this game. Also, someone tell Gary from Layout his lunch is still in the microwave.”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Probably Against Everyone’s Better Judgement

DUNGEON DUNCE™ THE TTRPG FAMILY FARCE NOBODY ASKED FOR  LAUNCHES SEPTEMBER 5th FROM RED CAPE GAMES

September 5th, 2025

Somewhere in the UK

Prepare your dice, polish your shame, and cancel family therapy, DUNGEON DUNCE™, the tabletop roleplaying game that turns heroic fantasy into catastrophic farce, will officially stumble onto Amazon and into living rooms on 5th September, courtesy of Red Cape Games, the unwanted sibling of Red Cape Publishing, kept in the attic and fed only on expired Monster Manuals.

DUNGEON DUNCE is what happens when you let a group of tired game designers, jaded parents, and one sentient chicken loose in a room with too much fizzy drink and no adult supervision. It’s a rules-light, chaos-heavy, family-friendly (debatable) TTRPG for players who peak at Level 9, because double digits are for narcissists and maths is the real enemy. And it’s a brilliant way for gamer parents to introduce their moppets to TTRPGs.

If D&D is Lord of the Rings, Dungeon Dunce is Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

“We wanted to make a game the whole family could regret together,” says Nigel Featherbottom, Head of Dubious Design at Red Cape Games. “It’s got magic, monsters, and at least one encounter where the players must negotiate with a kettle.”

DUNGEON DUNCE launches globally on 5th September in print exclusively. It includes everything you need to start the mayhem, except emotional resilience, which must be purchased separately.

ABOUT RED CAPE GAMES

Red Cape Games is the long-lost sibling of Red Cape Publishing, raised by goblins and educated via marginalia in second-hand game manuals. Known for deeply unserious takes on deeply serious genres, Red Cape Games believes that rules are guidelines, fun is mandatory, and dice are edible (not legally).

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MEDIA CONTACT

For interview requests, or to report magical mishaps, write to:
rcgdungeondunce@gmail.com
Or send a raven. It probably won’t make it.

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DUNGEON DUNCE™

The Most Fun You’ll Have Fighting With Your Family

(Rated “M” for Mild Screaming, Poor Choices, and Accidental Bonding.

What Red Cape Publishing Says About Launching a Games Division
(Excerpted from a hastily scribbled note stapled to the office kettle)

“We at Red Cape Publishing would like to formally acknowledge the existence of Red Cape Games.

We did not intend to launch a games division. It sort of… happened. One moment we were approving a short story about haunted jam jars, the next someone was building a roleplaying game involving sentient cabbages and legally binding prophecy charts.

It was either let them publish it or risk them starting a podcast.

While we cannot legally stop them, we would like to make it clear that Red Cape Games is technically part of the family in the same way your cousin Gary is still invited to Christmas even after the ‘Turkey Incident’.

They have our name. They do not have our dignity.

We wish them the very best, and remind the public that any similarities between our logos are purely the result of shared clip art and deep familial shame.”

– Red Cape Publishing

(“Please stop emailing us about the Cosmic Duck. We don’t know what it wants.”)