Hi Everyone,

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 done a crowdfunding campaign for the badass nuns-with-guns TTRPG Sisterhood.

And in the background, we are 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 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.

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! We are currently finishing up the final pieces of the editing process and any minor layout tweaks this may require as well.

The order lock date for surveys is May 15th, so please get your surveys filled out before then!

Currently being fulfilled. UK/ EU complete, USA and ROW in progress.

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.

On track, be ready to punch demons in 2026!

Shiver Corporate 

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.

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!

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 in 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 the 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.

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!

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!

Hi all,

The window is quickly closing to fill out surveys and we want to make sure that we get all the information we need so we can start processing soon!

We have identified that there has been an error in Backerkits' system for surveys that blocked a set of them from going out, which we would like to apologise for. We have now overridden this and sent out surveys, so if you have not received a survey to your email previously, please check for one now.

If you still have not received a survey, please get in touch with us directly with your backer details, and we shall look into this for you as soon as possible. We have also sent out a reminder email to those who have surveys and have yet to fill them in.

Lastly, we have some more things to show you. The fabric badge production has finished and has been delivered! Here's a look at the final product:

That's all for now! Thank you all for your continued support and we'll be back with more updates on book production and digital release very soon.

Charlie Menzies

Hi all! A quick update to remind backers to fill in surveys, let you know where we are on production and a message from the team about the global trade situation and how it may be affecting us as a company.

A reminder for all backers that the surveys will be closing in 3 weeks for this project so we can get addresses locked. We've still got quite a few unfilled surveys, so please make sure to fill this in as soon as you can!

Some exciting news, our official L.A.N.C.E Patches are nearly finished being produced! These iron-on patches will let you accesorise and feel like a real agent or operative of the agency. We wanted to give you a sneak preview, so here is the final approved render of the patch as it goes into production to give you a sense of the final result:

We are swiftly approaching having the books finished in digital format for you all to sink your teeth into! We've had a blast expanding the world of L.A.N.C.E, especially delving into the agency's history. As an organisation that originated in Arthurian England,  L.A.N.C.E  has been fighting evil and threats to the world for a very long time, and we wanted to give you some inspiration and ideas as to what stories you could tell. Although many of our stories have more modern (post 1900) setting in the two books, we have provided key events starting in Arthurian England, stretching all the way up to present day.

One of my favourite examples of this is a key moment during the First Crusades in 1188 AD, where a group of rebel knight's templar and lured into the desert by a promise of power, but find themselves cursed, their bodies morphing into stony skinned giants. It is up to the remaining Knights Order of the Lance to stop them, allowing you to play out some medieval chivalric tales. It also features some brand new art from Ben which I love:

We are estimating that we should have the digital files ready for you in 2 - 4 weeks, so keep your eyes out for our next update!

There is a large amount of concern in the tabletop industry and many others right now due to the harsh tariffs being imposed by the current US administration. This has been a large point of discussion for us as a team, as luckily, we currently do not have any projects in transit that will be hit by the current tariffs.

However, if the situation continues or worsens, it will have an impact on our funded projects that are currently in production, including this one. The tariffs and the current state of trade are extremely volatile, things not just changing day by day, but sometimes in a matter of hours.

As a small company, we are trying to be as agile as possible and make sure that costs don't come back to our customers and supporters, but there is a chance that this may have to happen in the future if things do not improve. It's too early for us to make a decision on how we will move forward, multiple contingency plans are already being made, but we will be closely monitoring how things develop.

For this project currently, nothing has changed, work continues, and the books are being made. We will not let this situation stop us creating things that we believe bring joy and connection, especially when we are in a time of discord and division.

For those who would like to know more about how the tariffs are impacting the tabletop industry as a whole, please see this great explainer from Meredith Placko (Steve Jackson Games, CEO) and others as to how the situation is damaging to the industry at large:

https://www.theverge.com/news/643173/trump-tariffs-steve-jackson-board-game-industry

In the spirit of keeping on and creating fun things, we are excited to announce SHIVER: Corporate, our next expansion that delves into he darkly comedic world of workplace sci-fi horror. Take on an internship at Cornwell Consolidated (A SHIVER staple antagonist) and try to survive ascending the corporate ladder.
 

Want to know more? Check out the teaser page and give the project a follow to receive a new SHIVER Quickstart where your plucky interns got hell and back to retrieve office supplies:

https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/882550d5-fd97-4908-aa06-4937fca39c91/landing