The Bookworm Circle

Fellow birds, we are in danger!
Humans are building something wicked.
With whirring machines and strange hats.

That's why you've been chosen from your flock.
To stop their plans and save our beautiful rainforest.
So join your comrades.
Welcome to The Bookworm Circle!

What is this?
The Bookworm Circle is a one-page rules-lite game in which players play as birds from an endangered rainforest.
Their goal as birds is to infiltrate human society to stop the human project that is endangering their rainforest.
To infiltrate, they will use their magic bookworms to take the human form of a book character.

Themes of the game
This game is about endangered animals navigating a strange world with rules they don’t understand.
Their goal is to change this world enough to save their homes. Empathy, social change, blurring the boundaries between human and non-human, these are the themes that this game is designed to build on.

Trigger warning (for one referee's random table):
Animal cruelty - Cannibalism - Exterminationism - Organ trafficking
Some of the entries for the "City's secrets", in the referee section, may not be suitable for everyone. We suggest using other secrets for a more family-friendly game or for players who are not comfortable with the themes suggested in these entries.