Greetings Sisters,
The team has been hard at work, writing, testing, and murmuring blessings as work continues on the books! A quick update on where we are at - the core rul...
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Parable Games
about 2 months ago
Happy New Year & Development Update!
Greetings Sisters,
2026 is the year of the Sisterhood!
Over the festive season, we have taken a bit of a break and now are back and racing to get your games to you. The Sisterh...
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Parable Games
3 months ago
Enemy Spotlight - The hungers of Famine!
Greetings Sisters!
Writing and testing are coming along nicely, the team aiming to have a plaintext accessibility version of the Core Rulebook for Sisterhood ready for relea...
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Charlie Menzies
4 months ago
Updated Battle Maps!
Battle Map Updates
We've been hard at work here at Parable Games testing and reviewing all the feedback from the quickstart and our community to refine the books and accesso...
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Parable Vaughany
5 months ago
How about some Evil forces?
Greetings Sisters,
Firstly, apologies for the delay in this update. We are bit behind schedule on this update, so sorry you've had to wait longer for your badass nuns fix! H...
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Charlie Menzies
6 months ago
Last Chance to Back! - Pledge Manager Closing Tomorrow
PLEDGE MANAGER CLOSING
Hi all, just a quick update from us, we will be closing the Pledge Manager tomorrow and charging all payments!
This is your final chance to make chan...
And secondly, we heard the feedback that our communication needed some work, we are now doing monthly (at the minimum!) updates on all projects, and we are always active on our Discord (which you should all come and join!). As part of this, we want to give you an update on all our projects, as we are shifting some announced projects back, and we are anticipating a minor delay on one project.
After an amazing 2024, the start of this year has carried on at a pace. We’ve released our first Starter Sets for Shiver, made several hundred unique items for Don’t Play This Game at a company retreat, and along with you all managed to fund SISTERHOOD. It's been a wild, crazy time and the team are flat out making our games as awesome as we can.
In the background, the team are tireleslly working to get your games to you from our outstanding crowdfunding campaigns. Don’t Play This Game is currently being fulfilled - admittedly, this is running a few months behind schedule. Delivering late is never our aim, Don’t Play was an ambitious project for us with some unexpected issues but we hope the wait is worth it!
We are on track with Sisterhood and will be ready to punch demons in 2026! We wanted to give you something to keep you all excited so have prepared a Sisterhood Lore Primer that gives you some more background on the Sisterhood, their Orders, and also the Cults of the Five Horsemen!
Lore Primer Cover
Over the next few months we'll have more updates rolling out as we have bits ready to share. We plan on sending monthly updates through backerkit to keep you up to date. If you have other questions we are more active on our Discord Server so this is the best place to get a response.
We are pushing the estimated delivery for this project back to Q4. Some workflow overlaps combined with wanting to give the game some extra polish before printing means we are moving the estimated delivery back to Q4. Whilst we are nearly there with the game (with some items already in manufacture), we anticipate missing the delivery by a few weeks. Alongside this, the digital files delivery we are now estimating for Q3 - we can’t wait for you to get playing, so we will be releasing this as soon as we are able.
We are ahead of schedule! We are aiming to have this to all our backers in Q3, ahead of the Q4 aim. We were aiming to deliver Classified before the Corporate campaign, but will miss this by a few weeks. We will be delivering the digital versions before this, however!
What if the worst job you've ever had was autopsying aliens, babysitting monsters, and constant death in an endless cycle of imperfect cloning? And at the end of the day they didn't even pay you? A darkly comic expansion for the award winning SHIVER RPG.
A new Shiver setting bringing all the comic Horror of the Workplace into your TTRPG.
Shiver: Corporate launches in July as planned, and if you follow now you can get a free quickstart guide (including a playable adventure!) for you to test the game out straight away.
Explore the galaxy in your mech with your friends in ION Heart Multiplayer. After the rave reception that ION Heart received we wanted to let people explore the Astral Union with all their buddies. Assemble your companions and take your mech friends into the stars!
We are pushing back to Q1 2026. With so many projects on we have some more development work on this before we launch the project. We are hoping to start the dev diary over summer to keep you up to date with our progress!
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You might have noticed a secret title squeezed onto that tracker in between Shiver: Corporate and Ion Heart: Multiplayer. You do have sharp eyes! The necessity of moving Ion Heart: Multiplayer back has allowed us the opportunity to release a new title (or is that titles?) that we have been really excited about for a while. Look out for an announcement very soon!
Tariffs
The situation sucks. We have friends who have lost employment already due to the ongoing tariffs, and are seeing widespread trouble throughout the tabletop industry, which is only going to get worse the longer this continues.
With the majority of our products being produced in Europe as a business we are quite well insulated from the Tariff issues on the majority of our lines. However we are not entirely protected from this huge industry disruption. Our dice, screens, and box sets are all produced in China. Specifically we have the full run of Ion Heart Dice and Mech’s Toolkits currently in production in China, estimated to be completed in the coming weeks. The tariffs on these items alone are substantial, and as a small company make a real dent into our ability to operate.
With the additional delay in delivery for Ion Heart we’ll be taking the time to review all our options and hoping that the situation is resolved by the time at which we need to make a final decision over the coming weeks. Once we have a clearer picture we will do an update specifically on this project.
Sisterhood is in a similar position, but further down the road.
In addition to this, we are now out-of-stock of some items in the USA and will not be able to resupply them until this.
As a business it is clear we stand firmly against the tariff situation, and support the actions of companies such as Stonemeier Games in trying to support the industry in these tough times. As a small company we are feeling, and will continue to feel the pain from this situation, and we can only hope for a swift resolution. We encourage all of our customers to reach out to their representatives, but we also empathise with the real-life effects that you are feeling from this situation not only in regards to games. We hope it will get better, for everyone.
On A Nicer Note!
I don’t want to leave this update on such a negative point, so let’s look at some of the other fun going on in and around Parable Games at the moment!
We currently have a Don’t Play This Game play-along on our Discord Server! Get a weekly prompt and join #TeamParable as we discover what the entity has in store for us all…
Next Month sees us attending TWO incredible conventions (UK only SORRY!)
Matt, Barney & Adam will be at MCM Comicon London on 23rd - 25th May
The WHOLE Parable team will be at the UK Games Expo where we are also hosting our FIRST EVER EPIC. Come and experience Shiver: Corporate early with 50+ other players in one mega game.
Our Patreon continues to release awesome monthly content - both for Shiver and new systems. With a FREE tier you can keep up to date with all the fun goings on.
We recently launched the Shiver: Director’s Club, offering FREE GM resources and rewards for players who want to run Shiver at their local store or convention. We’ve already been blown away by the response, but there’s always room for more Director’s here!
Let us know any other questions in the comments below or join our Discord Server. We’ve got a busy few months ahead, but it’s a really, REALLY, exciting time!
Hallelujah! Looks like you're ready to get locked and loaded and blast those pesky horsemen back to whence they came 🔥
Sisterhood is already fully funded in just a few hours 🚀 Thanks to all those brave souls who have already joined us in the holy order and committed themselves to the thankless task of stopping the apocalypse and saving the world 🌍
We've got loads of stretch goals, updates and other secrets to share with you over the next few weeks. So make sure to jump in fists first to the fray and join the Sisterhood with us 🙏
Fancy getting tooled up and giving our Nuns with Guns TTRPG a try? You can get a copy of the Quickstart Guide here.
Make sure to head over and follow the project here and help us punch demons and save the world! Sisterhood launches March 13th as part of Pocketopia 2025.
Acknowledging some of the most recent updates that speak vaguely about things taking longer than expected, we have yet to receive any kind of update giving information on when to expect project completion. I only backed for digital books, which says "Q4 2025" on the project page. Acknowledging again the stated delays, do we have any kind of updated timeline?
The team has been hard at work, writing, testing, and murmuring blessings as work continues on the books! A quick update on where we are at - the core rulebook is currently in its second pass of editing and we are hoping, after this is complete, to release a plaintext accessibiltiy version of the game. We are very excited for you to get your hands on the full game and to start punching some demons.
We are getting The Five Horsemen and The Last Judgement prepared for editing as soon as the Core Rulebook is coplete, and wanted to give you a preview of what's inside. Our first sneak peak is taking a look at War and the Mission in the Five Horsemen expansion. Here's a quick synopsis of what to expect:
“The land belongs to the people, and the people to it. We must fight to keep it this way.”
Laywoman Joan Vérany
The war tore the land and its people apart, leaving wounds that may never close. An unassuming French town calls for an end to War’s continued advances, and the Sisterhood answers. Home to the holy relic and symbol of hope, the pommel of Joan of Arc’s sword, it is closely guarded at the heart of this walled town, and the Hounds of War are ready to lay siege in order to claim it. Can the Sisters prepare the town in time and repel the invaders?
We were very excited to bring a siege story to Sisterhood, where players could interact with the town in a variety of ways to stage their own heavy metal version of The Seven Samurai. Its a departure from the more clandestine operations of the Sisterhood and will see the Sisters having to step up to lead the locals against an array of apocalyptic forces led by the Army of the Apocalypse. The mercenary nature of this cult means they are not above outsourcing violence, and have taken a warrior from their counterpart cult of the Bloodhounds - a Beserker.
Looking for that 'they have a cave troll' moment, this musclebound giant is a titan of violent rage andextremely dangerous on the battlefield. Will your Sisters be able to stop them?
That's all the heavy metal horror we have for you right now, but will have more updates soon! Remember to join our community Discord to hang out with us and an awesome community of folks: https://discord.gg/StcqgYjv7u
Want more TTRPGs to play? Check Out Ion Heart Multiplayer!
The Launch Party for Ion Heart Multiplayer has been updated with new information, artwork, and an option to reserve your pledge for an extra reward! Ion Heart Multiplayer is a tabletop roleplaying game where you take on the role of a Pilot and Mech in a post-war galaxy. Jet off to new worlds, explore the far reaches of the Astral Union, and fight back against evil corporations and biomechanical aliens to help preserve the newfound peace. Want to know more? Check out the link to Launch Party below:
