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About This Game
'everything begins small' is a collection of 15 games made for 200 Word RPG Month 2025 on Tumblr, run by @200-word-rpgs on Tumblr, with all 15 games being written during November 2025, for a total of 2,887 words written across the month.
Games in this collection range from solo games, to duet, to multiplayer. Some are about bogs, some about nature, some about transness, some are based on silly jokes or phrases.
Each game is downloadable as a separate file [# - title], or you can download them all together: [everything begins small - collection], which has internal hyperlinks. The other option is [everything begins small all games compressed.zip] which is a .zip folder with all of the individual games.
1. bog + body
A two-player game where together you are a bog body. One player is the presence of the bog, and the other the presence of the humanity. After waking up in a museum, the two players fight for control to determine which will win, and where the bog body will lay to rest.
Players: 2 Tools needed: Something to draw with, a deck of playing cards. **Wordcount:**192 **Written:**1/11/25
2. they cloned [your name]
A game for three players, played over messages, where one has just realised they're a clone, one is a person who cares about the clone, and one is The Agency, ready at any second to decommission the clone, if they reveal too much. How will this end? Will the clone convince their friend that they're okay, will they worry their friend too much? Or will The Agency decide to end the experiment?
Players: 3 **Tools needed:A d20, a messaging app Wordcount:**194 Written: 2/11/25
3. a final act of devotion
You're going to die. This is a game of setting a scavenger hunt for someone who loves you, setting them up to find the password to your accounts so they can tell your online queer friends that you're dead. Go through your memories to choose places to send your devoted.Â
**Players:**1 **Tools needed:**Some way to write/record your hunt and a message **Wordcount:**181 Written: 5/11/25
4. what gender are we?
It's hard to figure out what gender you are, so grab a buddy and discover your genders together, helping each other discover them!
**Players:**2 **Tools needed:**A timer, two pieces of paper **Wordcount:**184 **Written:**5/11/25
5. deadnames must die
Your deadname has come to life. You must hunt it down and kill it.
**Players:**1 **Tools needed:**Writing materials, d4, d6, d20 **Wordcount:**170 **Written:**11/11/25
6. Who's the Lucky Bog Sacrifice?
Your Neolithic Village is having a day of celebration and games to decide who will be declared the person with the honour to become the Bog Sacrifice. Who will win?
**Players:**3 **Tools needed:**Cards, pen & paper **Word count:**191 **Written:**12/11/25
7. Trans Rage Week
It's Transgender Awareness Week no more. Time for trans rage instead.
**Players:1+ Tools needed:Varies Word count:**192 **Written:**19/11/25
8. A Hundred Years Hence
This game will take you to two places, and ask you to consider humankind's role in these places, the effects of time, and what you can do temper human destruction of natural spaces.
**Players:**1 **Tools needed:**None Word count:198 Written:Â 20/11/25
- The Time Flies
You are a time travel agent, and you have recently returned to your home time. However, your romps across the timeline have left rips in the fabric of the world, which can only be fixed by Time Flies. Count their presence, take note of where they show up, then clean up the mess. Maybe you'll even find fellow time travelers.
**Players:**1 **Tools needed:**Something to take record note, your phone torch **Word count:**197 **Written:**23/11/25
10. a leaf that doesn't know it's part of a tree
Find a large and old tree. Consider the tree, yourself, and the space between the two of you. Where do you end and the tree begins?Â
**Players:**1 (and a tree) **Tools needed:**A tree **Word count:**200 **Written:**25/11/25
11. your library card will save the world
As an agent of the Ageless Library, you've been sent back to the 21st century to retrieve a personalised artifact that will allow you access to some necessary information to bring back to the future. (A game for those with no library card... yet!)
**Players:**1 **Tools needed:**A nearby library **Word count:**192 **Written:**25/11/25
12. the ocean's favourite
As a traveler on the open seas, the ocean's eye has swung onto you and she will be deciding whether she hates you, is ambivalent, or loves you. Only one of these will end in you living, and it's not the one you may think.
**Players:**1 **Tools needed:**2d6 **Word count:**199 **Written:**28/11/25
13. free as a bird
Two Wild birds have come across a Trapped bird, being used as a prop in a TV commercial. The two Wild birds must work together to free the Trapped bird, lending their aid, support, and trickery.
**Players:**3 **Tools needed:**13d6 **Word count:**200 **Written:**29/11/25
14. I know what death looks like!
You're two newly dead spirits, having passed through the veil and both caught a glimpse of the goddess of death on your way. As the one with superior vision, you'reclearly the right one here, but this moron doesn't agree. I guess you'll just have to convince them.
**Players:**2 **Tools needed:**Index cards, 16d6 (or as many as you have and somewhere to write numbers down) **Word count:**199 **Written:**30/11/25
15. Last of the Little Bitterns
As the ghost of the last New Zealand Little Bittern, you are on a mission to convince humans to save your cousins, the Matuku-HÅ«repo, or the Australasian Bittern, before it's too late? Who will you convince, and what fate lies in store for both your kin, and yourself, once your job is finished?
**Players:**1 **Tools needed:**2d6 **Word count:**198 **Written:**30/11/25
Huge thanks to Fe of Sleepy Badger Games for gifting beautiful bittern artwork for Last of the Little Bitterns! Please check out Fe's art and games.
Additional thanks to Laurie for inspiring 'one final act of devotion' and it's execution, and Edie for her help with 'Who's the Lucky Bog Sacrifice?'.