• About
    • Policies
    • Write For Us
    • Ads
    • How We Earn Money
  • Email Digest
  • Patreon
  • Shop
  • Resources
    • Archives
    • Conventions
    • Chat Portal
    • Free eBooks
    • Latest TTRPG News Summary
    • RPG Tips
    • RPG Tools
    • Short Film Roulette

Geek Native

From the land of Geek

  • Books
    • Comics
  • Games
    • Console
    • Mobile
    • PC
    • Tabletop & RPGs
  • Geek Stuff
    • Cool Tech
    • Art
    • Interviews
    • Sites
    • GameWyrd
      • Echoes from the Wyrd
      • Famous Last Words
      • The Lost Archives
      • Weird Awards
      • Wyrd Reviews
  • Movies
  • Music
  • TV
    • Anime
    • Online Shows

UK Games Expo: Parable Games will run a multi-table

March 20, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The horror TTRPG Shiver, a gold best seller at DriveThruRPG, will get a multi-table epic game at this year’s UK Games Expo.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: parable games, shiver, uk games expo

Shiver Classified: Parable Games reveal covers

October 8, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Today, the British publisher revealed two cover designs for the books The Unseen War and Agents of L.A.N.C.E., which join a small gallery of big art that has already been published.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: horror, parable games, shiver

Genre Police: Role Assumptions

March 17, 2024 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 2 Comments

Lately I have been thinking about social interactions and personal relationships in roleplaying games, which lead to an interesting discussion with some of my players.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: genre police, parable games, rpg tips, shiver

Shiver brings its Pop-culture horror tabletop roleplaying to the Bundle of Holding

April 5, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I like the indie RPG Shiver, and now the pop-culture horror tabletop roleplaying game is up at the Bundle of Holding.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, flash sale, horror, parable games, shiver

UKGE 2022 Awards: The best RPGs and board games of the year

June 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The UK’s largest and one of the most significant gaming conventions in Europe is over, and the UK Games Expo is done for another year. The busy event has many attractions, one of which is the influential UK Games Expo Awards. The UKGE 2022 Awards has two categories, Judges and People, which means two winners […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: aconyte, aliens: colonial marines Operations Manual, All Rolled Up, awards, exploding kittens, fantasy flight games, Free League Publishing, frostgrave, Iello, lord of the rings, magpie games, osprey games, parable games, root, shiver, the dee sanction, the thing, twilight: 2000, uk games expo, z-man games

Parable Games announce changes and blood-soaked steps

May 18, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Parable Games have found success with their horror RPG Shiver and today emailed fans with news of big steps and changes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: parable games, shiver, uk games expo

Genre Police: Choose Your Own Adventure(s)

April 3, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 3 Comments

Last time we talked about new RPGs and how to get players to try them. But how do you even begin to work out what you want to play?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 7th Sea, alien rpg, Andrews McMeel, apocalypse world, brutal games, Call of Cthulhu, Champions, Chaosium, chill, corporation, cubicle 7, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, deadlands, degenesis, dread, Dungeon World, Dungeons & Dragons, Eclipse Phase, edge, everway, Evil Hat Productions, feng shui, Free League Publishing, Gamma World, genre police, Green Ronin Publishing, lancer, Legend of the Five Rings, magpie games, masks, Melsonian Arts Council, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, mork borg, mutant: year zero, Mutants & Masterminds, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, parable games, paranoia, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, posthuman studios, pugmire, R. Talsorian Games, runequest, Shadowrun, shiver, star trek adventures, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, traveller, troika, twilight: 2000, vaesen, Vampire: The Masquerade, warhammer, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Wild Talents, zweihander

Classic horror reborn: Shiver Gothic RPG finds willing souls on Kickstarter

March 2, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Fight the dark forces in the Spireholm & Dregstone stories, or use the books as a guide to create your own gothic adventures.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, parable games, shiver

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #113

August 13, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

RPG news in a handy bullet points summary gives you an advantage in your hobby perception and wisdom rolls.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, adventurers league, Arc Dream Publishing, bounty hunter, carbon grey, cubicle 7, Delta Green, doctor who, en publishing, flying buffalo, foundry, Free League Publishing, gen con, guy sclanders, indie groundbreaker awards, kobold press, Legendary Games, magnetic press play, Modiphius Entertainment, mutant chronicles, mutant: year zero, Pelgrane Press, Planet X Games, R. Talsorian Games, ravenloft: mist hunters, riotminds, routinely itemised, shiver, soulbound, star trek, star trek adventures, Steve Jackson Games, Stygian Fox Publishing, tab creations, tabletop gaming magazine, tales from the loop, the oracle, the witcher, wizkids

Your inevitable doom: A review of the Shiver RPG

August 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

If you’re a horror fan, then Shiver is worthy of your vile consideration.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: horror, parable games, reviews, shiver

Next Page »

Quick Links

  • Archives
  • Become an Event Sponsor
  • Chat Portal
  • Cookie Policy (UK)
  • Geek Conventions
  • Kickstarter Heat
  • Newsletter
  • Patreon
  • Resources
  • RPG Publisher Spotlight
  • Social Media
  • Podcast: Audio EXP

Info

  • Contact Us
  • Corrections
  • Privacy

Columns

  • Quick RPG news summaries
  • Quick mini-reviews
  • Quick highlights podcast
  • Recent Kickstarters 
  • Competitions!

Follow Us

Social Media

Recent Posts

  • Review: Beyond the Woods Quick Start
  • Fatshark marks 10 years of ‘Tide’ games with free Darktide Steam weekend
  • How to secure Conquest’s limited edition Krampus for free this Christmas

Supporters

  • Patreon

Copyright © 2025 · News Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

Want cookies?

To provide the best experiences, we and our partners use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us and our partners to process personal data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site and show (non-) personalized ads. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.

Click below to consent to the above or make granular choices. Your choices will be applied to this site only. You can change your settings at any time, including withdrawing your consent, by using the toggles on the Cookie Policy, or by clicking on the manage consent button at the bottom of the screen.

Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Statistics

Marketing

Features
Always active

Always active
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
Manage options
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}
pixel