The Grim Gazette - A Collection Of Victorian Horror TTRPGs

Opportunities for Early Access: "Nightwatch" Coming Together
4 months ago – Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 04:21:55 AM

Thank you to all our grim gothic loving supporters. 

The team have been hard at work on (amongst several things, like the new Ion Heart Pins) the Grim Gazette games. So much so, in fact, that Nightwatch has gone through at least 6 more variations on its original draft!

We've been revising the balancing of the Watch, as well as adding more world-building lore to the Rogue's Gallery of crooks and killers, and the strange Beats of the Old Smoke that you'll be unlucky enough to visit. We've also thrown in a few "friends" to spice up your career:

But with everything we add, we find its even more important to refine and leave spaces for what the player gets to bring to the table.

"The most important thing we're working on is making the world feel real, and established, but then letting the player be the one who breathes life into it. It's a solo game, so we really want you to have that ownership of your experience with it." Adam Holloway, lead writer of Nightwatch

If you want to see more of Nightwatch and spend some time in its dark and deadly world, then you're in luck. We're hoping to organise some closed and exclusive playtests of this game very soon. 

As always, we look forward to hearing from you and your experiences with the Nightwatch demo (available here), so join our community Discord to hang out with us and an awesome community of folks: https://discord.gg/StcqgYjv7u

Until next month, keep it Grim!

We Did It! 596% Funded - The Grim Gazette Heads to the Presses
5 months ago – Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 07:50:32 AM

Thank you so much!

Thank you for all your support to bring the Grim Gazette to life. We can't wait to get some books out there and get playing. 

We're going to be working in the background getting some final bits ready, and then we will be sending out surveys and to prepare for sending the pledge manager live! Keep an eye out for an update in the future, as we will make an announcement when we have a firm launch date in place. 

Missed out?

Don't worry. If you just missed out we're going to be looking at how to open the pledge manager up to you as well. Make sure to keep following the project to keep informed about when the pledge manager goes live. 

Once again, thank you all for your support!

The Parable Games Team

Only 1 Hour Left to Back!
5 months ago – Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 05:46:14 AM

Only 1 Hour Left to Back! 

Don't miss out on your chance to grab your copy of the Grim Gazette! If you are unsure or still on the fence, here are top 5 awesome things about this set of games:

1) Incredible Value! 

You can get all 5 games for as little as £35, that's only £7 a game (and the campaign guide for free)!

2) Interconnected Epic Campaign!

Play your games individually or live out the life and times of a Victorian Adventurer using the campaign guide! Multiple games, numerous adventures, 1 spectacular character!

3) Solo Modes for All!

Every game in the collection now has a solo mode, so if you have a regular game group or wish to adventure alone, nothing stands in your way!

4) Get Playing in Under 10 Minutes!

With our easy to learn rulesets for each game, you can get setup and playing within minutes at your table. No more session zeroes, just adventuring Victorian heroes!

5) A Vivid Victorian World to Explore!

This strange and grisly setting spans the dark streets of the Old Smoke to undiscovered lands, creepy faery realms to crumbling stately homes. Each game provides a snapshot of the weird and wonderful places this setting has to offer, and the campaign guide and your characters connect them all together.

As we prepare to doff our top hats and bid you all a farewell, we want say thank you for following this campaign! This couldn't happen without your support and for that we are incredibly grateful.

🎩 The Parable Games Team 🎩

Final Day to Back!
5 months ago – Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 09:56:44 AM

Final Day to back!

Extra, Extra! It's the final day to back Grim Gazette, read all about it!

The last day of the campaign has rolled around and we just want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has supported so far! Its been a fun and frightful journey into the world of Victorian horror with this kickstarter project, and we can't wait to share the games with you.

It's Bonfire Night here in the UK right now, and the air is thick with wood smoke, groups huddled around blazing fires, a very appropriate final evening for the Grim Gazette. If you could help this project end with a bang, please share the Kickstarter page wherever you can, and help us find more budding adventurers looking to have a grimly good time.  

That's all for now, so I'll leave you with these instructions to thrive as a Victorian adventurer:

• Answer that call to adventure (if you haven't already) 
• Don't forget your top hats
• Spin a gothic tale of a lifetime! 

We'll see you in the Big Smoke soon...

Final 48 Hours to Back!
6 months ago – Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 11:54:53 AM

Last 2 Days to Grab a Great Deal!

It's the last 48 hours of the Grim Gazette campaign and if you want some spooky Victorian horror games at great value, look no further! You can pick games individually or you can get all 5 games for as little as £35, that's only £7 a game (and the campaign guide for free)!

A Chat With Charlie 

We thought we'd sit down with Charlie and give him a chance to answer some questions about the Grim Gazette and where it came from, here's what we found it!

What inspired the idea Grim Gazette? 

Charlie:It was the combination of having a bunch of games and systems we had been working on and developing and trying to find a home for them all, and a discussion about old-school newspaper serials. We'd been wondering how to tell longer, grander stories in more bitesize chunks, and the newspaper serials - Charles Dickens published numerous books this way, Stephen King utilised it for the Green Mile, but we wondered if you could apply it to roleplaying games. That evolved as an idea into each 'serial' being its own specific game, but a chapter in a larger story.

Why Victorian Horror?

Charlie:I've always had a thing for Gothic fiction, especially the Victorian era, there's just something about it that pulls me in. There's an ornate grubbiness to it all, a beauty covered in soot and grime where an interest in the dark and macabre things in the world was considered normal. The Victorians were obsessed with folklore, the paranormal, the chance that there could be something strange out there beyond their ken. In that way, I feel a certain draw to the time period, as their curiosity for the strange and unusual lines up very much with my own. That and my penchant for run-on sentences...

Where did the idea of the Campaign Guide come from? 

Charlie:The newspaper serials were definitely a key inspiration, but also sweeping, insane stories like The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, or characters like Alan Quartermaine, tall tales of characters who led rich and varied lives. 

It was also a thought that many of the adventurers we play as rarely get a chance to grow old, have regrets, and have their pasts catch up with them in interesting ways. The games, connected by the Campaign Guide, allowed us to see where these characters' lives could lead and provide snapshots of the different chapters they could experience. 

Are there some key inspirations for the visual style of the books? 

Charlie:The etchings found in newspapers and older Victorian periodicals have always fascinated me and were a starting point, especially in the Penny Dreadfuls. When I sat down with Ben and Mizer to iron out the visual style further, we found ourselves drifiting towards our love of graphic novels once again. In particular, the work of Bernie Wrightson, his Frankenstein illustrations in particular, as well as Kevin O'Neill work on the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (a story inspiration for us also). 

What are you most excited to see players do with the Grim Gazette?

Charlie:I always love hearing table stories from our games being player, but for the Grim Gazette, I'm fascinated to see what characters it creates!

We hope that's shed some further light on the Grim Gazette! If you have any more questions for Charlie, let us know. But we have one for you: who is your first character going to be? Tell us in the comments below!