[1] As Rogers State University Library noted, "Connections to other characters matter as much as combat skills and magic in these stories of solving mysteries, righting wrongs, and daring heroics.

[1] The book includes a short introductory scenario, "The Cures of Harmony" — the player characters investigate a curse in a small village that is being blamed on a gypsy caravan.

[4][5] In 2017 Green Ronin used funds raised from Kickstarter to release a second edition of Blue Rose that used the Adventure Game Engine, the same rules system used in the Dragon Age tabletop RPG.

"[6] In his 2023 book Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground, RPG historian Stu Horvath commented, "I find it slightly odd that the overall system, being derived from D&D, is so combat-focused; this seems like a missed opportunity to develop the sort of social mechanics that were emerging among indie RPGs."

Horvath noted the essential good of the world of Aldea, saying, "There is a lich king and some forces of wickedness, and villains abound, but in focusing on the positives, Blue Rose actively resists many of the stereotypes and cliches on which fantasy RPGs reflexively fall back."