The Year is 1778

You are a seventeen year old boy who has just signed up to be a privateer on The Antelope. Her captain, Elcid Barrett received a marque from the king and has promised an easy trip of raiding American ships for gold. You and the other nineteen fishermen that now make up the Antelope’s crew were told you’d fire no guns and shed no tears. You were not told what a sorry state the Antelope was in.

A Broken Man on a Halifax Pier is a solo GM-less journaling game in which you document your attempts to survive your journey. During the game you will roll dice, draw cards from the deck to perform the prompts associated with them, pull blocks from a tumbling block tower, place or remove tokens from the salvation card, and write about your experiences on the Antelope in character.

Content Warnings

A Broken Man on a Halifax Pier contains themes of drowning, starvation, naval combat, mutiny, poor working conditions and alcoholism.

You Will Need

• A standard deck of cards with the jokers removed
• A d6
• 10 coins
• A tumbling block tower
• Something to write in

What's Included

• a 20pg illustrated PDF zine
• a 10pg plain text PDF and Word document

Attribution

This work is based on The Wretched, product of Chris Bissette and Loot The Room, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.