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Christmas Crisis

Publisher
Parable Games LTD
Age Range
8+
Player Range
2-8

CHRISTMAS CRISIS - Something terrible is threatening the festive season and it's up to you to save it! From the Yule Cat to corrupt mall Santas, Christmas has never been in more danger. Roll up some Yuletide heroes and  save Christmas for everyone! 

Play as Elves, Ornaments, Dickensian Orphans and many other holiday characters. Make sure that you don't run out of Christmas Cheer though, or you'll never save Christmas from whatever evil plagues it in this rules light roleplaying game.

Christmas Crisis is a festively foolish 1 page zine on a double sided A4.

Scrappy Slimes: Run The Fungeon (Powered By Incompetence)

Publisher
Parable Games LTD
Age Range
8+
Player Range
2-8

SCRAPPY SLIMES: Run The Fungeon (Powered by incompetence) - How do dungeons get to be so darned dangerous and nefarious? They test them out on the slimes! 

Play as intrepid slimes testing out a Fungeoneer's nefarious new dungeon whilst collecting delicious scrap. Be careful not to get splatted though or it's game over for you - and a bucket and mop job for the dungeon cleaner.

Scrappy Slimes is a light hearted 1 page game zine on double sided A4.

SHIVER Blockbuster: Legends of the Silver Scream

Publisher
Parable Games LTD
Age Range
13+
Player Range
2-8

SHIVER Blockbuster: Legends of the Silver Scream

Stunts, action sequences, giant cinematic set pieces. Want to create your own cinematic masterpiece on the tabletop, Legends of the Silver Scream will show you how with a swathe of different stories which pay homage to some of the world's favourite movie masterpieces. But that's not all.

Want to tie your movies together in an interesting way? Legends of the Silver Scream contains new rules for the actors behind your player characters. Manage their careers across multiple films with special actor abilities, backgrounds and rules for creating the movie moments you know and love.

SHIVER Gothic: Disciples of Dregstone

Publisher
Parable Games LTD
Age Range
13+
Player Range
2-8

Inspire your players by expanding your gothic story world with Dregstone. Great for adding to a main story or even as a side plot for you todrop in and out of as players adopt the role of explorative street urchins, disgruntled shopkeepers, or concerned citizens in the city's underbelly.

Whilst the citizens of the Gothic city of Spireholm go about their daily business on the surface, just beneath the streets lies not only sewers and cellars but the entire hidden city of Dregstone. Dregstone is where all that is unwanted in Spireholm ends up. From the piles of everything from rubbish to rats, a civilisation of the outcast has emerged. 

Find your way from the surface world into the grim darkness of the Dregs. Explore the world of the Scorians. Rats forever changed by alchemical mutations. Befriend the resistance and fight against a tyrannical dictator in a bid to escape the darkness and return home.

Disciples of Dregstone contains a number of stygian chapters that link together to form a subterranean adventure. The events of Disciples of Dregstone and the world in which it is set can be played on their own or can be slotted into the wider world of SHIVER Gothic.

SHIVER Gothic: Disciples of Dregstone features:

  • 160 pages of Gothic SHIVER content in full colour with stunning illustrations.
  • A monstrous Gothic sandbox setting, the Dregs. A limitless arena of dark tunnels and mutated underground beasts for you to explore to your hearts content.
  • A huge 7 chapter story set in the Dregs which will see you explore an unending dungeon, escape the clutches of mad science and horror, and fight with revolutionaries against a despotic monarch.
  • New rules for Colossal Enemies and Critical Weaknesses, perfect for expanding your repertoire of boss monsters.
  • Rules and Backgrounds for playing as a Scorian character, the mutated rat-folk who call Dregstone home.
  • A swathe of Items, Weapons, Armour and Monster profiles for you to use in your SHIVER stories as you see fit.

SHIVER Gothic: Secrets of Spireholm

Publisher
Parable Games
Age Range
13+
Player Range
2-8

Create the Gothic epic of your dreams on the tabletop. Secrets of Spireholm will give you all you need to create characters and tell stories in grimy worlds of gothic horror. 

Spireholm provides the perfect sandbox setting for you to create your own stories in and this book also contains a huge 10 part story to play through as well as monsters, items, and NPCs. Fight your way through ghoul infested abandoned buildings, sleuth out a murder mystery, pull off a grand heist and fight werewolves, vampires, and monsters galore in this most Gothic of setting and story.

The city of Spireholm is different of late. Strange folk are abroad, disappearances go unexplained, and a sombre mood descends upon the populous. A high profile murder brings an unlikely group of individuals together to investigate. What they uncover, will change them all forever. The story of Spireholm is a massive multi-chapter story for the SHIVER RPG exploring the city and doing battle with evil within its walls.

SHIVER Gothic: Secrets of Spireholm features:

  • 320 pages of Gothic SHIVER content in full colour with stunning illustrations in a beautiful hardback binding.
  • A monstrous Gothic sandbox setting, the city of Spireholm, for you to explore to your hearts content.
  • A huge 10 chapter story set in the city of Spireholm which will see you slay monsters, uncover mysteries, and fight against a rising evil.
  • A new set of rules for long form stories which ties multiple Doom Clocks together into a terrifying Doom Calendar.
  • 7 all new monstrous archetypes to the SHIVER RPG for players to create their characters with. Everything from Vampires to Frankenstein's Monster are covered with a huge variety of gothic favourites. If monsters aren't for you then you can break out the stakes and play as the Slayer Archetype to hunt down monsters as well!
  • Brand new Gothic themed backgrounds, everything Urchin to Plague Doctor to help add a Gothic flavour to the Archetypes from the SHIVER Core Book.
  • A swathe of Items, Weapons, Armour and Monster profiles for you to use in your SHIVER stories as you see fit.
  • An additional one-shot story, 'It Lives', graveyards in Spireholm are being raided, bodies alive and dead are going missing. You and the other concerned citizens of Spireholm are out to investigate and find the culprit.
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  • Ennies 2023 Nominee - Best Setting

SHIVER Gothic: Secrets of Spireholm (Special Edition)

Publisher
Parable Games LTD
Age Range
13+
Player Range
2-8

Create the Gothic epic of your dreams on the tabletop. Secrets of Spireholm will give you all you need to create characters and tell stories in grimy worlds of gothic horror. 

Spireholm provides the perfect sandbox setting for you to create your own stories in and this book also contains a huge 10 part story to play through as well as monsters, items, and NPCs. Fight your way through ghoul infested abandoned buildings, sleuth out a murder mystery, pull off a grand heist and fight werewolves, vampires, and monsters galore in this most Gothic of setting and story.

The city of Spireholm is different of late. Strange folk are abroad, disappearances go unexplained, and a sombre mood descends upon the populous. A high profile murder brings an unlikely group of individuals together to investigate. What they uncover, will change them all forever. The story of Spireholm is a massive multi-chapter story for the SHIVER RPG exploring the city and doing battle with evil within its walls.


SHIVER Gothic: Secrets of Spireholm features:

  • 320 pages of Gothic SHIVER content in full colour with stunning illustrations in a beautiful hardback binding.
  • A monstrous Gothic sandbox setting, the city of Spireholm, for you to explore to your hearts content.
  • A huge 10 chapter story set in the city of Spireholm which will see you slay monsters, uncover mysteries, and fight against a rising evil.
  • A new set of rules for long form stories which ties multiple Doom Clocks together into a terrifying Doom Calendar.
  • 7 all new monstrous archetypes to the SHIVER RPG for players to create their characters with. Everything from Vampires to Frankenstein's Monster are covered with a huge variety of gothic favourites. If monsters aren't for you then you can break out the stakes and play as the Slayer Archetype to hunt down monsters as well!
  • Brand new Gothic themed backgrounds, everything Urchin to Plague Doctor to help add a Gothic flavour to the Archetypes from the SHIVER Core Book.
  • A swathe of Items, Weapons, Armour and Monster profiles for you to use in your SHIVER stories as you see fit.
  • An additional one-shot story, 'It Lives', graveyards in Spireholm are being raided, bodies alive and dead are going missing. You and the other concerned citizens of Spireholm are out to investigate and find the culprit.
  • Ennies 2023 Nominee - Best Setting & Best Cover

SHIVER Slasher: Generation Murder

Publisher
Parable Games LTD
Age Range
13+
Player Range
2-8

SHIVER Slasher: Generation Murder

Ever wanted to make your own Slasher movie franchise? SHIVER Slasher: Generation Murder shows you how to put together a whole host of Slasher sequels, covering everything from secret islands to sending murderers into space. The stories in this gorgeous 200+ page hardback book explore the life of crazed film director and the slasher creations his obsession spawned.

Want to tie your sequels together with returning characters? Generation Murder also contains brand new rules for generational characters! Did you survive as a teen through a slasher experience? Well now their back and your character is still here and fighting. Was one of your family a victim? Maybe it's time for some familial revenge? These generational rules work great for building that movie franchise feel and can be used in Slasher stories as well as in any other SHIVER story!

Someone In This Tavern Is A F***ING Mimic

Publisher
Parable Games LTD
Age Range
13+
Player Range
2-8

"You find yourselves in a local tavern..." the line and setting that haunts the beginning of any fantasy set TTRPG, the common meeting ground for adventurers and kicking off point for a story. As classic as this is, I've always found the start of adventures that take this approach take a little while to get going. So how about we start this tavern prologue off with a bang? Or, this case, MURDER.

In the spirit of other social deduction games, SOMEONE IN THIS TAVERN IS F***** MIMIC!, does what it says on the tin. Someone amongst you at the table is a Mimic with murderous intentions and its up to the rest of the group to find out who it is before they kill their way through most of the patrons.

This game can be a fun way to start off a new adventure in your favourite fantasy RPG of choice and give it a nice horror twist and story hook for your players to explore. So drink up, warm yourself by the fire and keep your weapons close, as no one is quiet what they seem.....

Squeeze

Publisher
Parable Games LTD
Age Range
8+
Player Range
2-8

SQUEEZE - An OSR Cavecrawl game of subterranean CLAUSTROPHOBIC TERROR. Inspired by movies like The Descent and As Above So Below, this game takes players and puts them in a dark, damp and dangerous underground environment with one goal: Get to the surface.

Doing this is going to be a challenge however, as the environment is working against them, as well as the subterranean horrors that have been awoken by their trespassing. Control your breath, keep calm, and delve into the deep.

Squeeze is a dark and foreboding 12pg OSR Roleplaying Game zine in A5 booklet.

What Lurks Above

Publisher
Parable Games LTD
Age Range
8+
Player Range
2-5

WHAT LURKS ABOVE - Ready your airships and prepare to take to the skies in What Lurks Above. A game about Victorian explorers sailing the perilous Cloudsea, an endless smog that fills the sky. Littered with mysteries and monsters, put together your crew, and set sail into grimy sky.

Do you love pulp adventure with a dash of horror? Sky pirates wearing top hats? Then this is the game for you! This is our second game in the WHAT LURKS Trilogy and uses the ALL ABOARD system, this time focusing on stories for characters on airships of all kinds as they ply the endless Cloudsea.

What Lurks Above is a smog filled OSR Roleplaying Game in an A4 tri-fold zine.

What Lurks Beneath

Publisher
Parable Games LTD
Age Range
8+
Player Range
2-5

What Lurks Beneath, is a deep sea horror RPG. A rules light game about exploring the deep depths of the ocean and unexplored trenches where dangers and secrets dwell.

This is the first game in the WHAT LURKS Trilogy and uses the ALL ABOARD system. This game system is designed for quick OSR style gameplay for stories where characters are tied in someway to a vessel, ship, vehicle, etc. In the case of WHAT LURKS BENEATH your characters are all part of a submersible crew. It even folds down to fit in your wallet for quick play anywhere!

What Lurks Beneath is a highly pressurised OSR Roleplaying Game in an A4 beak zine.

What Lurks Beyond

Publisher
Parable Games LTD
Age Range
8+
Player Range
2-5

WHAT LURKS BEYOND - Awakened from Hypersleep, you find yourselves far off course in a completely unmapped section of space. Secure supplies, gain information, try to survive.

This is our third game in the WHAT LURKS Trilogy using the ALL ABOARD system, except this time we swapped sky and sea for the endless void as your characters embark on their spaceship into uncharted worlds.

What Lurks Beyond is a disturbingly abyssal OSR Roleplaying Game in an 8 Page A5 Booklet Zine.