Printable parent pack
The Ship That Tied Up Empty
Print it once and run the whole adventure at your table, with no screen and no prep.
Get the pack
Look before you buy: two real pages are free to print, with no account and no email.
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Your licence to print
- Print it as often as you like for your own household, or for one classroom you teach.
- Reselling it, or sharing or posting the file for other people to print, is not allowed.
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31 printable pages. US Letter, prints fine on A4. Black ink works; colour is nicer.
One purchase gets you the pack in English, Hebrew and Arabic: a single zip file with all three PDFs.
Who it is for, and how long it takes
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Ages 6 to 12
The age dial in the pack makes every roll easier or harder.
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2 to 5 kids and one grown-up
You read the story aloud. Nobody needs to have played before.
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15 to 45 minutes
Pick a length on the night; the pack lists the scenes to read for it.
Real pages from the pack
Each picture is a page as it comes out of the printer, in this language.
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Read-aloud story booklet -
Scene cards -
Monster cards -
Hero cards -
Run your first game
What is inside
The whole adventure on paper: a story you read aloud at any length, a card for every scene, monsters to cut out and a map for the middle of the table.
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Cover
Full-page cover 1 page
The title and scene art, for the top of the stack.
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Run your first game
2-page guide 2 pages
The rules in one minute, for a grown-up who has never run a game: the dice, the age dial, your three jobs, and what to do when the game gets stuck.
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The adventure at a glance
5 characters 2 pages
The story and its secret, every character with a voice and a line to say, and a tracker for the choices that change the ending.
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Read-aloud story booklet
Story at all 5 lengths 13 pages
Every scene written out to read to the kids, with a guide page that says which scenes to read for a 15-minute game or a 90-minute one, plus a note for you on each scene.
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Endings and rewards
3 endings to read aloud 2 pages
An ending to read aloud for each way the story can finish, the homecoming, the rewards, and ideas for playing it again.
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Scene cards
6 scene cards 6 pages
One card per scene to hold up for the players: where they are, what the heroes want, the ways to try it, and lines to write down what they did.
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Hero cards
6 hero cards 2 pages
Ready-made heroes to cut out, so every child can start playing in a minute.
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Monster cards
3 monster cards 1 page
Cut-out cards with each creature’s Heart Points, Guard and moves, so nobody has to look anything up mid-fight.
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Handout prop
1 handout to cut out 1 page
The in-story clue on its own card, to cut out and pass across the table when the story reaches it.
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Map poster
1 full-page map 1 page
The adventure map at full-page size, for the middle of the table.
What you already get free
These stay free whether or not you buy the pack. The pack is everything listed above.
- Free adventure PDF3 pages: the cover, the story hook with the monster roster, and the map with the handout.
- Free printable guide sheetEvery scene, monster and the map on one sheet, printed from your browser.