red markets 2nd edition with caleb stokes

2/3/2026

Red Markets is a tabletop RPG about economic horror, nominated for “Best Game” at the 2018 Ennie Awards. The 2nd edition is currently in playtesting.
In Red Markets, characters risk their lives trading between the massive quarantine zones containing a zombie outbreak and the remains of civilization. They are Takers: mercenary entrepreneurs unwilling to accept their abandonment. Bound together into competing crews, each seeks to profit from mankind’s near-extinction before it claims them. They must hustle, scheme, and scam as hard as they fight if they hope to survive the competing factions and undead hordes the GM throws at them.
Takers that are quick, clever, or brutal enough might live to see retirement in a safe zone, but many discover too late that the cycle of poverty proves harder to escape than the hordes of undead.
Red Markets uses the traditional zombie genre to tell a story about surviving on the wrong end of the economy. It’s cut-throat capitalism with its knife on your neck.

THE GODS MATH - EP1 OF RED MARKETS W/ CALEB STOKES

The table changes hands as Caleb Stokes, Ennie Award–winning writer, joins us to run his tabletop RPG Red Markets 2nd Edition. Set in a world of scarcity, debt, and impossible choices, Red Markets asks what survival is really worth when everything has a price.
And if you enjoyed the chaos Caleb brought to the table, you can support Caleb Stokes and check out more of his work on Patreon here:
https://www.patreon.com/hgod

SHUT UP AND SHOOT - EP2 OF RED MARKETS W/ CALEB STOKES

The gloves come off. Caleb Stokes, Ennie Award–winning designer, returns to run a second session of Red Markets and drives the crew straight into the casualties. Unspeakable horrors close in, plans fall apart, and every decision carries a brutal cost. And if you enjoyed the chaos Caleb brought to the table, you can support Caleb Stokes and check out more of his work on Patreon here:
https://www.patreon.com/hgod