25+ Specialised Worldbuilding Templates

Use an array of specialized templates like Character, Organization, Location, Building, Item etc to organize your world. Each template has unique fields created to inspire you and focus your thought process on what really matters

Interactive Maps

Upload your maps in JPG/PNG format. Add a variety of pins that link to locations and related articles to your world and create the ultimate navigation experience for yourself and anyone who wants to discover your world and its locations.

Navigate from a galaxy all the way down to the secret room under the stairs!

Multiple Timelines

Present the history of your world using timelines specialised for worldbuilding that display the importance and type of events.

Create timelines for your species, plots and major events.

Keep track of your RPG party's history of adventures

Map Layers

Create maps with multiple layered images. Use layers to describe different aspects of your maps like political vs geographic vs temperature / humidity maps or just the Over and Underworld of your world.

Co-Authors

Work with multiple people on your world. Give access to your friends and work with them to create wondrous worlds!

Give your Players or other authors the ability to submit articles to your world but not see the secrets you want to hide! This is a great way for RPG Storytellers to allow their players to contribute without having access to their world!

Subscribers

Subscribers allow you to choose specific people (or groups of people) who can see otherwise private content.

This could include articles only visible by one or some of your players, secret map layers or pins, or secret content exclusively for the eyes of your loyal patrons!

Ad-Free

See no adverts on the website's authoring panel or presentation! Simple & Clean!

World Themes

Select one of the 10+ themes (more added monthly) to give your worlds a unique feeling. Fantasy, Dark, Modent, Military and Science fiction beauty to match your work!

Note: You can still use CSS to make them even more special! Tens of Worldbuilders can help you do that on our Discord!

CSS Personalization

Modify any Theme or create your very own unique presentation for your world! Use the magic of CSS and really get into the mood of your creation!

Note: Tens of Worldbuilders can help you do that on our Discord!

TODO List

Never lose track of your work! Create a list to remember which articles you want to create, Set priority and check their status!

Super quick uploads!

Upload new images en-mass and from anywhere on the panel. The fastest way to use your images & categorize them into galleries.

Focus on your writing

Get Rid of the clutter while you are writing. World Anvil's features are great but some times you just need to be alone with your thoughts and your digital paper!

100+ Map Markers

Get over a 100 markers exclusively available to Guild Members! Fantasy, Geographic, Science Fiction, Settlement specific sets and many more!

We are adding new markers continuously!

Organization Tree Visualizations

Discover and allow others to explore your world using trees for your organizations, species, locations and so much more

Marker Groups

The Ultimate Interactive Map experience! Each map can be separated in groups with their own layers and markers.

Have a group that your players can see, and a group that only you will be able to see with all your secrets.

Have a whole groups with their own locations for the Overworld and another for your Underworld

Create separate groups for your cities and towns and another for your special locations or to show a map through the passing of time!

Map Compass

Add a Rose compass to your maps to give them character. This can be any image. Many people use it to show information that they want to float as they browse a map.

100+ Map Markers

Get over a 100 markers exclusively available to Guild Members! Fantasy, Geographic, Science Fiction, Settlement specific sets and many more!

We are adding new markers continuously!

Journey Lines

Record the travels of your players, trade routes, migration patterns or the progress of military campaigns with the journey lines! Customize them any way you want!

Map Labels

Map labels are a unique style of map marker which allows you to show information written with text on your maps. You and your readers can still click on them to another map or article or just to read more about the location on your map.

Integrate with Discord

Make use of Discord's webhooks to show off your world to your chosen channel when you publish it.

Integrate with Discord and make use of World Anvil's features from the comfort of your Discord client

MUCH MORE COMING HERE: WATCH THIS SPACE!

Advanced Customization

Leverage advanced customization and use CSS and other tricks to make your authoring environment your own.

Completely change the way that the forms look, change the colour, size, location of buttons and so much more using the power of CSS.

Create a unique experience for your Co-authors (and your subscribers very soon!)

Create your own Templates

You don't like the article templates? Do you want to create your very own awesome, specific templates?
WE GOT YOUR COVERED!

You can now extend the current templates and add custom code in them to make sure that your specialised articles look everytime, consistently exactly the way you want them to look!

Circular Markers

Your map markers don't have to be pins! use Circular markers to define areas of influence or to control invisible but still clickable markers so your maps look absolutely stunning with nothing on them but still interactive!

Change the opacity and colour of both the fill and border of your markers!

Polygonal Markers

Create areas, terrirories, borders of nations, radioactive zones and anyother of polygon, visible or not on your maps as a marker that allows you to link to articles or other maps.

Change the opacity and colour of both the fill and border of your markers!

Custom Markers

Create your unique own markers! Sky is the limit, they can be tiny, huge, sci-fi, fantasy ... anything you can think of. Just upload an image, tweak a bit and you are all set!

Advanced Formatting

ONLY THE BRAVE. This is the ULTIMATE design tool for your presentation.

Make use of the "container" and "section" formatting code, use special Grandmaster+ commands and access to widgets that create unique experiences for your viewers.

Make use of Default Headers for your world and categories to make it easier to organize and publish your work

RPG Character Sheet (Blocks) Designer Toolset

ONLY THE BRAVE. This is the ULTIMATE design tool for your RPG and Design needs.

Create any RPG character sheet template for ANY RPG system. Define its content using a super easy form and design it EXACTLY the way you want using HTML and CSS!

No Ads, not you, not anyone!

Neither you or your coauthors, subscribers OR visitors will ever see adverts on your world and authoring panel.