Can You Survive Your Nine-To-Five?
A Multiplayer Corporate Horror Expansion for the Award Winning SHIVER RPG, with 228 Beautifully Illustrated Pages of Dystopian Departmental Adventures, Mad Science Mechanics, And Much, Much More.
SHIVER is a tabletop roleplaying game that brings tales of the mysterious, the peculiar, and the strange to life. Inspired by a love of classic horror & pulp novels, scary movies, and TV shows SHIVER is an easy to learn and innovative game system that brings storytelling to the fore. Perfect for telling anything from fantasy stories with a horror twist, to totally terrifying slasher tales.
With easy-to-learn rules, SHIVER makes it simple for you to tell the stories you want to tell, however weird, wonderful, or terrifying they may be. Take on the role of archetypal characters from any story, time, and place to uncover the dark truths that lurk in the shadows of the world. Unmask the villains, go boldly into the unknown… and while you’re at it, try not to die.
SHIVER immerses you in the telling of your tale, seamlessly merging gameplay mechanics with the storytelling itself. Symbolic dice bring the story to life with each roll of the dice a potential twist in the story. Succeed and continue onwards, fail and Doom may follow you, and sometimes, the outcome is not always what you bargained for. You may be telling the story but the dice also have a speaking role.
Not got a copy of the SHIVER Core Book? Fear not! You can select it as an add-on to any pledge right here so you can become an intern at Cornwell Consolidated straight away!
Have you ever had a boss who you thought came straight from the depths of hell? Well in SHIVER: Corporate, they actually might have. If you love corporate dystopia, or you just need some roleplay therapy to escape your actual dystopian work life, this expansion to the award winning SHIVER RPG system has you covered.
Want to doom the entire HR department to a sand-filled, office scooter-riding, post-apocalyptic warzone? Just make sure they sign your PIP before you do. Think the department making synthetic and sentient food is a great idea? Just wait till those ugly vegetables try to turn you into food waste. Fancy working with new and interesting co-workers? Well, we've got the literal colleagues from hell waiting, just for you. And they're the nice ones...
And on-the-job training? SHIVER: Corporate has got it by the bucketful. How about learning how best to decapitate a demonic alien entity? Or how to negotiate with a winged hell demon? What about learning all about the wonders of robotics, while said robots try to wear you like its casual Friday and you're a Hawaiian shirt? Nothing says "increased employee motivation" like constant life-or-death decision making!
Welcome to Cornwell Consolidated - SHIVER's own sinister global mega-corporation. The Executives here aren't renting out private submarines, or entire cities to host private events - that's too "small-picture" for them. They're trying to figure out if they can cut employee retention problems out by making use of highly untested (and definitely illegal) cloning technology. But, you know, on the cheap.
With all the strange and wonderful advances in science Cornwell Consolidated put their attentions towards, you might think working here would be like taking a trip to dreamland. But while Cornwell like to invest in (and hastily copyright) their employee's dreams, they're much more firmly in the business of making nightmares.
Sentient weaponry? Check - but its hyper critical of everything you do. Ancient and mysterious entities? Yes, but it's a floating clockwork goldfish and it really just wants you to take a bath. Exciting opportunities for career growth and pay incentives? No, we don't have that. But how about a neon soaked trip inside a blood fuelled Wi-Fi router? That Cornwell Consolidated (and SHIVER: Corporate) can guarantee!
With new SHIVER mechanics to add a professional twist to your games, work has never been so much fun. Explore Cornwell Consolidated, visiting the twisted departments along your way, or create your own mega-facility to torment hapless players/interns.
SHIVER: Corporate offers a chance to live out your executive dreams at the expense of a host of disposable interns, with back-ups ready to to replace them at the drop of a HR Manager.
Cornwell Consolidated has a wealth of educational literature to help enrich your intern experience. This pack contains three A5 company handbooks filled with extra content! These include:
Mandatory Company Greeting - An adventure gauntlet of deadly interview tasks for your players to survive. Will they secure a full internship or an early death?
Your Last First Day on the Job - An adventure exploring a new department of Cornwell Consolidated, voted for by you!
Have a Safe Corporate Takeover - Expanded lore of Cornwell Consolidated packaged in a handy guide led by Safety Squirrel, detailing what happens when the megacorporation buys out your company.
The Cornwell Welcome Pack
Nothing screams company spirit like corporate branding! Besides, the flair is mandatory. Get yourself some limited edition company swag, including:
Stress ball - Everything is fine when you give it a squeeze!
Fillable employee ID - Let your Director know your character at a glance.
Company lanyard - Rep the company colours like a loyal employee should.
Pen & Notepad - Take notes, internships are all about learning after all!
The SHIVER Core Rulebook provides the tools for creating any world of your choosing. A broad brush of horror, a universal toolkit of scares. Whatever your tastes in spooks or monsters, the SHIVER Core Rulebook can take you there. It pairs great with The Cursed Library, which has five adventures steady to run, all in different styles. A haunted house? A scarecrow slasher? A body horror filled arctic science base? The weird west? Alien planets? What isn’t to love about this tempting book of ideal one shots.
SHIVER Gothic explores the world of classic horror. Werewolves, vampires, and flesh golems teaming up to fight supernatural crime. Our Ennie nominated gothic world is ripe for exploration. The Secrets of Spireholm contains a huge gothic sandbox walled city setting for you to stage your classic horror adventures in, and mechanics for playing as the monsters themselves. Disciples of Dregstone builds on the fun, in the sewers underneath Spireholm. It’s a bloody revolution against a cruel rodent king! “Do you hear the Micemen Sing? Singing the Song of Angry Rats”.
SHIVER Slasher digs into the beloved genre of the stalkers in shadow that are slashers. Everything from axe wielding murderous TV entertainers, to giant owls monsters, the Slasher genre never fails to bring exciting and terrifying conflicts to the table. Generation Murder contains rules for creating your own Slasher movie franchise, with generational mechanics that allow characters (or their surviving descendants) to return for future stories. With stories covering 100 years of slasher cinema history, you're bound to leave more than a few bodies in your wake.
SHIVER Blockbuster dives into the thrilling and action packed world of big budget blockbuster cinema. For those who like their movies packed with a few less scares, but a lot more booms. From swashbuckling pirates to shark-men with machine guns. there's big screen action for everyone. Legends of the Silver Scream serves up a helping of different cinematic titles, as well as rules for keeping your characters alive - they are the stars, after all. With all new Star mechanics, if you play your role well, you might win awards and dazzle the audience - and get rewarded in your games.
Starter Sets are an ideal way to kickstart your games, with two themed boxes ready to come home with you. The SHIVER Blockbuster Starter Set contains a family friendly epic adventure filled with dinosaurs and bad business decisions, and the SHIVER Slasher Starter Set takes you on a murderous tale of summer camp slaughter. Both Starter Sets contain everything you'd need to start playing SHIVER including:
SHIVER is an easy to learn, fast paced play experience designed for a range of ages and skill levels. With just the Core Rulebook, or a Starter Set, you’ll be ready to jump into the world of making your own scary adventures in nearly no time at all.
SHIVER: CORPORATE uses the award-winning Archetype system. Rather than counting up dots and doing mental arithmetic, the Archetype system uses purely symbolic dice. Trying to kick open a door, you’ll be looking for the symbols for Grit (physical prowess) on your roll. Trying to pick a lock? You'll be looking for Wit symbols.
But the dice may have a different idea. Sometimes the dice will present you with a different path, rolled no Grit but a lot of Smarts symbols to kick that door open? Perhaps you search for a key under the doormat, or find a Smarter solution than using your might. Success and Failure is not binary in SHIVER.
Want to check out the game being played? We have plenty of actual play content created by us, our community and in collaboration with some wonderful roleplayers! Here is a selection to see if SHIVER is the right game experience for you:
For the SHIVER: Corporate crowdfunding campaign, alongside a whole host of Cornwell Goodies we've made a selection of games from the Parable Games range available during the active campaign. Visit the add-ons page to view the other great games available, including SHIVER expansions, Ion Heart, Don't Play this Game and Sisterhood!
These can be added to your order and will be shipped together. Digital files will be released as they are available to get you playing your games as quickly as possible!
If you aren't quite ready to add more to your pledge now, we will open the Pledge Manager after the campaign allowing you in add additional items to your pledge at a later date.
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Long-lasting design
SHIVER books are only available in high quality hardback. We know roleplaying books can take a beating if you travel a lot to play so we wanted to make sure we would make something that would last as you face the horrors of your story worlds.
Sustainable materials
Our books are printed at an FSC supply chain certified printers to ensure that our books come from responsibly sourced and managed forests.
Environmentally friendly factories
We work with book suppliers in the EU who guarantee to make their printing process as ecological as possible. Reducing paper wastage to make sure only what is needed is used.
Sustainable Distribution
We are taking steps to reduce the movements of goods as much as possible and manufacturing small batch items in country where possible. This will help us reduce excess movement of products as much as we can whilst still being able to get copies of the game to a global audience.
Digital Copies
We wanted to give players to option to play without having to own anything physical. We have made PDF versions of all the game books, a player’s record can be entirely digital as well meaning nothing need be consumed in order to play should you so choose.
All images and contents are subject to change. By pledging to this campaign you acknowledge that the final look and feel may differ from what is presented.
