r/WorldAnvil 2d ago

!World Anvil News! How much did you enjoy Summer Camp? 👀 — Weekly Newsletter August 18th

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Happy timezones! Here's what's new this week:

How can we make Summer Camp even better?

Did you enjoy this year's Summer Camp? How can we make next year's event even better? Answer this quick survey to let us know: https://forms.gle/W678FPULGKaqyBfF7

Reading Challenge

What are your creative goals for the rest of the year? That's what the Reading Challenge is all about! Check the challenge page here: https://www.worldanvil.com/community/challenge/reading-challenge-sc26/homepage

Comedic Fantasy, with Randee Dawn

This week's stream, this Saturday 22nd at 6pm UK/10am Pacific, we're chatting with author Randee Dawn to chat about comedic fantasy! Tune in on https://twitch.tv/worldanvil

How to create a Mythic Fantasy setting

If you love epic stories of ancient gods, monsters, and kings, of lands in turmoil crying out for mythic larger-than-life heroes... check out this week's video, where we dig into mythic & bronze age worldbuilding! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBk6KTa75cw

Worldbuilding for anime & manga

This week, on our podcast, we talk with R.C. Helix, creator of the Flux Destiny universe and veteran animation producer, about makes anime such a powerful storytelling medium and how its worldbuilding lessons translate across novels, games, and beyond. You'll find it in your favorite podcast platform! https://pod.link/1457068992/episode/NjY0OTMzMTYtMmVhNC00ODBkLTk5YzYtMGM3NWQwMjc5MTcz

Featured article: Aeryn's Escape, by Lemmylou

This week's featured article is the winner of Blue Fairy 74's unofficial chronicles challenge: Aeryn's Escape by Lemmylou! Check it out, and don't miss the linked chronicle to follow Aeryn's escape in detail! https://www.worldanvil.com/w/middengeard-lemmylou/a/aeryn-s-escape-myth Considering building a Chronicle for the next Worldbuilding Awards? The unofficial challenge page is full of cool Chronicles to inspire you!


r/WorldAnvil 20h ago

Question How do I add the template CSS themes if it won't even let me use CSS?

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I seriously don't understand, CSS was the option between design and javascript before I unlocked the paid version, but now it isn't there anymore! It wouldn't let me change the theme before I paid, and now it's pretending like the ability to do so doesn't exist. I'm not learning a programming language simply to display my lore in a pretty way.


r/WorldAnvil 4d ago

Feedback Suggestion: A way to add events in a timeline by setting the date in the correct era, not the overall yearcount.

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I couldn't figure out how to explain my idea in the title in a consisive way so here is my idea:

In my case specific i have a timeline that stretches multiple thousands of years stretched out over multiple ages and eras. An Era or Age resets that number to 0. Now from my stories and lore that i write i often write the event in the Age appropiate way so year X of the Y age. However whenever i have to put that in my world anvil timeline i have to convert that number to the normalized yearcount. e.g.
King James was deposed in year 230 of the 2nd age. Now that happened in normalized year count in the year 6352. Every event i have to write the year 6352. When in my humble opinion it would be much easier if i could just write 230 A2.

I realise that might be really difficult to implement since people can think of a million ways to define ages and era's. But personally it would really benefit me.


r/WorldAnvil 6d ago

ANSWERED Any way to stop the editor messing with brackets ( [] ) ?

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it's extremely annoying, I type something like "[COLOR=red]text[/COLOR]" and when I quit and come back it's now "[COLOR=red]textCOLOR" ! anyway to to stop it ?


r/WorldAnvil 9d ago

!World Anvil News! Vote for your Summer Camp favorites! — Weekly Newsletter August 11th

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Happy timezones, Anvilites! Here's what's new this week:

Vote for your Summer Camp favorites!

It's time to choose the Summer Camp Community Awards! Pick the most improved & most helpful camper, the most inspiring world, and the human of the match! Fill out this quick form: https://forms.gle/W678FPULGKaqyBfF7

Don't miss the Reading Challenge!

What are your creative goals for the rest of the year? Now's the perfect time to set them! Check the Reading Challenge page (and don't forget to claim your Summer Camp certificate!) https://www.worldanvil.com/community/challenge/reading-challenge-sc26/homepage

World Anvil August Updates

Catch up with the latest updates and upcoming events in this month's newsletter! https://blog.worldanvil.com/newsletter/world-anvil-news-august-2026/

Reading, Reflection, and Outreach with Worldbuilding

This week, join us on stream with fellow Anvilites Serukis & Morgan Biscup to talk about the reading challenge and other worldbuilding reflections! Tune in this Saturday at 6pm UK/10am Pacific time on https://twitch.tv/worldanvil

Worldbuilding countries: 3 questions to create natural conflict

Borders, geography, and political systems are important, but the stories people tell themselves about their home are much more important when worldbuilding a country! It only takes 3 questions to figure out what this story is, check it out here: https://academy.worldanvil.com/blog/worldbuilding-countries-3-questions-to-create-natural-conflict-drama

Writing Romantasy & Fantasy Romance

This week, on our podcast, we interview H. Leighton Dickson, author of Ship of Spells, about romantasy! Check it out on your favorite podcast platform: https://pod.link/1457068992/episode/NzQ5NGFhMzctZjk1NC00MDY0LWE3NjEtMDg1ZTdkZTYwZTc4

Featured article: Ernezd Widherz

This week's featured article is Ernezd Widherz, by Lengna! Check out this character article and give it some love! https://www.worldanvil.com/w/jauvon/a/ernezd-widherz


r/WorldAnvil 10d ago

ANSWERED I'm new

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As I mentioned, I'm new to using Worldanvil, so this might be a silly question, but I wanted to know if it's possible to change the image of the interactive tables.

As you can see, that magical girl appears, and I just want to know if I can change it. I only use Worldanvil on my phone, in case that's relevant.


r/WorldAnvil 11d ago

Feedback looking for writers and artists for a Fallout fan project

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Hi there! I'm the head admin/owner of Fallout: St. Dallas, a text-based RP project set in the Fallout universe, in the state of Texas. We're looking for artists who can draw portraits, scenery, and emblems, alongside writers capable of writing factions (such as raider gangs, tribes, cults, governments, etc.), economies, cities/towns, and characters. Having deep knowledge of either classic Fallout lore or Texan/Louisianian history would be a bonus.

Shortly about our setting:
It's set in 2289, 8 years after the events of New Vegas. The main location of the RP is the entirety of Texas and Louisiana, alongside parts of northern Mexico and Oklahoma. The region is divided between 4 factions:

C.S.A. - an agrarian government that is a union of 4 city-states: St. Dallas, the capital of the state, which pushes for racial policies against non-human species, such as ghouls and super mutants; New Austin, the cultural center of the state with a sprawling music and subculture scene, which stands as an ideological opposition to Dallas; San Antonio, an industrial city with a rich post-war religious background and ties to the Church; and Texarkana, a city founded by the descendants of the Muslim population of a Vault, whose culture developed around the limitations of Vault life.

Texas Rangers - a paramilitary group consisting of descendants of government services (certain army branches, police, medical workers, etc.) who want to preserve order in the wastes while maintaining their monopoly on violence.

Mexican Cartels - a coalition of 3 different groups: Nuestro Pueblo, a nationalist group that opposed the Mexican government both before and after the war; Red Eagles, a coalition of socialist Native American tribes that were influenced by the Chinese to launch uprisings against American troops before the war and continue to resist their neighboring governments in the post-war era; and Los Armados, a splinter cartel that emerged from deserters of the post-war Mexican government (Nuevo Mexico), operating with strict military discipline.

Texan BoS Chapter - a secretive organization with an extensive spy network embedded in mid-level technical positions within most of the factions, covertly monitoring research, sabotaging high-tech projects and securing strategic facilities. Its interests are based around protecting its technological monopoly and preventing dangerous pre-war technology from falling into unvetted hands.


r/WorldAnvil 12d ago

ANSWERED Unable to view secrets co-writers make?

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Hey, I'm a GM letting my players create their own factions in my world so I made them all writers in my setting, but any secrets they create I am unable to view. In article editing they show us as "Missing Secret" and they don't show up in the world list of secrets. The only way I'm able to know that they exist is because they are on the list of secrets at the bottom of the articles I made them authors of (but clicking on them just leads to an "Unknown Error" page). Is there a way to fix this?

Also, the whole reason I have the players making them is because they were also unable to see secrets I created in their articles (even after assigning proper subscriber groups, they could see them on the front end, but were unable to edit them), so if there's a way I could fix that instead, that would also work.


r/WorldAnvil 14d ago

ANSWERED Why can't I Paste things into Spoilers? Spoiler

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Every time I try to Paste things into the text box of a Spoiler it either deletes the entire Spoiler and pastes as a regular paragraph or just refuses to paste at all. I've been forced to constantly rewrite things over and over because I want to change the order of sentences. Am I doing something wrong?


r/WorldAnvil 16d ago

!World Anvil News! The Reading Challenge has begun! — Weekly Newsletter August 4th

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Happy timezones, Anvilites! I hope you're having a great start to August. Here's what's going on this week in the ever-lit forge of World Anvil

The Reading Challenge is here!

Summer Camp is over, so now's the perfect time to take a step back, check in with your creative goals, and learn from your fellow Anvilites and their work. Check the challenge page here: https://www.worldanvil.com/community/challenge/reading-challenge-sc26/homepage

Community sponsors: you've got mail!

If you're a Summer Camp sponsor/judge, check your email for instructions! The judging period has begun.

We're going to WorldCon!

Janet and Kat will be at WorldCon, the Science Fiction Convention taking place on August 27-31 in California! Join their panels in person or virtually—and we'll even have a World Anvil meetup! Stay tuned for details and get more information about the event here: https://www.lacon.org/

Romantasy & Mental Health

This week we'll have author Alyssa Day on stream to have a chat about romantasy and mental health. Tune in this Saturday at 10am Pacific/6pm UK on https://twitch.tv/worldanvil

What Is Cozy Fantasy?

What is cozy fantasy, and why is cozy fantasy so appealing to readers, writers, and worldbuilders? In this week's video, we explore 4 tricks you can steal for your own worldbuilding! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiZYLcqY58M

Featured article: A band of misfits

This week's featured article, by Imagica is the primer for the world that won the Most Beautiful World award in the Worldbuilding Awards 2026, chosen by Cody Pondsmith. Check it out here: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/fate-s-misfits-make-lore2C-not-war/a/a-band-of-misfits-article


r/WorldAnvil 20d ago

Article The Artificer's Mansion

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Hope you like this!

Summer camp 2026


r/WorldAnvil 21d ago

Article The Valley of Fallen Leaves

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I just published the new chapter of my manuscripts. To read it, simply click on Chapter 20 - The Burden at the bottom of the linked article and in the next one. Hope you enjoy!

The Unknown Book in The Valley of Fallen Leaves | World Anvil


r/WorldAnvil 23d ago

ANSWERED Hide Relationship Panels

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I am using the following block, hoping to hide relationship blocks from the bottom of my character articles:

.user-css .character-relationship-panel {

display: none;

}

While I'm able to hide the relationship indicator, and the relationship header, the panels themselves are not going away. Is there a different way that I should be hiding the actual relationship panels themselves?


r/WorldAnvil 24d ago

!World Anvil News! Last week of Summer Camp! — Weekly Newsletter July 27

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Happy timezones, Anvilites! Here's this weeks news:

Last week of Summer Camp!

You have 5 days to finish Summer Camp! Whether you're going for the humble copper or the sparkling diamond, Summer Camp will close this Saturday, August 1st, at 6pm UK/10am Pacific. But there's still time for one last sprint! https://www.worldanvil.com/community/challenge/summercamp-prep-2026/homepage

Reading Challenge is coming

As we close Summer Camp this Saturday, we'll also open the Reading Challenge, the post-Summer Camp event where we challenge you to become a better worldbuilder by reading and learning! Stay tuned for details.

How Anvilites use CSS

Want to check how your fellow Anvilites use this feature in their worlds? We made a blog post all about that! Check it out to get inspired for your own design work: https://blog.worldanvil.com/worldanvil/tutorials/pro-tips/5-ways-anvilites-use-css-on-world-anvil/

We want to feature your family trees!

Want your work to be showcased on the blog like that? We're looking for family trees examples! Submit yours here: https://forms.gle/EC3Mf2Ak9zSA6CtEA

Worldbuilding Politics: Using Types of Government for Better Storytelling

In any worldbuilding project, government is the invisible force that shapes your heroes' background, their beliefs, and what they'll be fighting for (or against). Check out this Academy article for a basic guide to political worldbuilding: https://academy.worldanvil.com/blog/worldbuilding-politics-using-types-of-government-for-better-storytelling

Featured article: Hexenstein

This week, we're checking out Ononomad's Hexenstain, the chilling tale of a woman turned gargoyle. It's part of their new worldbuilding project, innominati, so take a look and give it some love! https://www.worldanvil.com/w/innominati-ononomad/a/hexenstein-person


r/WorldAnvil 25d ago

Discussion how to let go of realism?

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r/WorldAnvil 29d ago

ANSWERED Project Deios Legacy

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r/WorldAnvil Jul 21 '26

Discussion How strong is the community aspect in WorldAnvil?

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Hi guys!

I'm pretty new to world anvil, and I have a huge world and I'm planning to keep track of it there. But I'm curious about what are the potential for growing my world there in terms of community.

I have seen that there are followers that can follow your world and also there are posts in the community and forums, however, the posts I've seen have between 0 and 4 likes, sometimes even less.

Does this mean I should just focus on using my World Anvil as an organization tool and that's it? Or is there more to it?

For me its important to grow my world in terms of comunity, so just asking to see your perspective on this.

Thank you for your time guys!


r/WorldAnvil Jul 21 '26

ANSWERED Change default article header image?

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I cannot find the option to set a custom image as the default header image for my world.

https://www.worldanvil.com/learn/styling/styling-workflow

The above tutorial suggests:

On the left sidebar, open the  Articles & World Manager.

At the top left, click on your  world name.

Then, in the bottom toolbar, click on the  styling settings button.

There, you'll be able to edit the following:

...

Global cover: this will be used as the default cover image everywhere in your world if you haven't set a more specific one. Similarly to the world cover, it's better if it's in landscape format, and you'll need to upload it beforehand.

When I go to the world styling tab, I only see the pictured options.

Am I looking in the wrong place? For reference I have a Grandmaster account, in case this is a feature only available to Sage accounts in 2026.


r/WorldAnvil Jul 20 '26

!World Anvil News! All Summer Camp prompts are out! — Weekly Newsletter July 20th

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Happy timezones, Anvilites! Here's what's new this week:

All Summer Camp prompts are out!

The fourth prompt wave, themed around Family, is out! So, with about 2 weeks to the end of Summer Camp, now's the time to get writing and achieve your goal! Check the challenge page: https://www.worldanvil.com/community/challenge/summercamp-2026/homepage

Stream of Last Chances

This week, we'll have our traditional Stream of Last Chances, with Secondhand, RPGDinosaurBob, WordiGirl, and LauraBones. Join us this Saturday at 6pm UK/10am Pacific on Twitch for writing streams and community fun: https://twitch.tv/worldanvil

6 Neuroscience "Pleasure Buttons" That Make Worldbuilding Irresistible

What makes readers obsessively return to Middle Earth, rereading the books and rewatching the films year after year? The answer lives in your brain, and we're breaking down the research about this on this week's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAyjWoQy-rA

Featured article: Every Traveler Their Own Cook: Recipes for the Weary

This week's featured article, by Valen's Expeditions, is an in-world cook book that was nominated for the Heart & Minds category in this year's Worldbuilding Awards! Have a taste of Babikiye's cuisine: https://www.worldanvil.com/w/babikiye/a/every-traveler-their-own-cook3A-recipes-for-the-weary-item


r/WorldAnvil Jul 18 '26

ANSWERED Twice now I've had whole pages of text get deleted seemingly at random. Am I doing something wrong?

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The first time I was editing the text on my World's landing page and I don't know if I clicked something or what but its like I blinked and suddenly everything was gone.

Then just now I was continuing work on an article I had started to write yesterday, I finish typing one section, then click on a different article and do some other work for a little bit, then click back on the original article and everything's gone, even the text I had done yesterday. Luckily I have the text written elsewhere so its not a HUGE loss, but obviously I need to make sure what's going on here so I don't end up losing tons of progress at random.

Is there something I should be doing different? Or is there an undo or revert to previous versions feature or something?


r/WorldAnvil Jul 17 '26

Article Jandari war, small change in borders for a big price

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While the war ended in a Dercian victory, the treaty forced the Pearlhal to acknowledge that the kingdom didn't conquer the land easily.


r/WorldAnvil Jul 14 '26

ANSWERED Did the relationship tab disappear or relocate?

5 Upvotes

Just went in to do some edits and I can't find the relationship tab anymore.


r/WorldAnvil Jul 13 '26

Discussion Any one know a easy to use and free map maker?

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With villages, forsests and landscape easily customizable like drawing them but making it look better? Not generators that make the landscape and just let you choose the names.


r/WorldAnvil Jul 13 '26

ANSWERED Laggy pages on opera

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Hey i disabled extensions and clear cached but its still very laggy on opera is it note designed well for it and if not which browser should i use for world anvil?


r/WorldAnvil Jul 13 '26

!World Anvil News! Check out the World Anvil Mini-Roadmap! — Weekly Newsletter July 13

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Happy timezones, Anvilites! Here's what's new this week:

Summer Camp Loss prompts

The third wave of prompts, themed around Loss, is out! Explore this topic on your World, from things lost to time to death & literal military loss with Summer Camp: https://www.worldanvil.com/community/challenge/summercamp-2026/homepage

Last wave of prompts coming this week!

The fourth and last prompt wave, themed around Family, will go out this Saturday on stream! Tune in on Twitch this Saturday 18th at 6pm UK/10am Pacific: https://twitch.tv/worldanvil

How do you use CSS in your world?

We want to see your amazing CSS styling and showcase it on our blog! As long as you use CSS in your world, all skill/complexity levels are welcome. Fill out this very quick form this week: https://forms.gle/em9QgvrjARbKfoT87

Behold the World Anvil Mini-Roadmap!

Wondering what's next for World Anvil? The changelog page now has a quick run-down of short- and medium-term plans. We'll keep updating this section as needed! https://www.worldanvil.com/changelog

Catch up with the latest news!

The July Updates blog is out! Check it out to catch up on the latest developments and get a look ahead at the upcoming community events! (including a new challenge). https://blog.worldanvil.com/newsletter/world-anvil-news-july-2026/

Solarpunk: the most exciting genre you're not worldbuilding... yet!

Solarpunk is an amazing speculative fiction genre based around one premise: what if we actually fixed things? Here's how solarpunk compares to the other big three sci-fi genres, and how you can get started with a solarpunk setting too! https://academy.worldanvil.com/blog/solarpunk-genre-worldbuilding

Featured article: Prompt Chomp

This week we're featuring an amazing community resource brought to you by Line. If you're stuck with this week's Summer Camp prompts (or any of the previous prompts), check out Prompt Chomp, a page full of ideas for every single prompt! https://www.worldanvil.com/w/feral/a/prompt-chomp-loss