The vacation season is right here—and with it, one of many largest worldbuilding challenges of the yr: WorldEmber! This month additionally comes packed function upgrades, so maintain studying to be taught all about what’s new on World Anvil!
As at all times, our group has been busy enhancing World Anvil this month!
🎲 RPG character modifications
Let’s begin with two modifications to RPG characters to make the expertise smoother and simpler to make use of!
- As a GM, now you can simply see and edit your participant’s character sheets! Verify the information to the marketing campaign supervisor and learn how to add a personality sheet to a PC for particulars.
- If a participant character is related to a personality article, they are going to now share the identical profile image, which you (and the GM) will be capable to replace from each locations.
🗺️ Map pin upgrades
We’ve upgraded how hyperlinks in map pins behave whereas enhancing the map, to make your workflow sooner!
- Clicking a linked article will open it for enhancing (with out leaving the map).
- Clicking a hyperlink to a different map will open that map in enhancing mode.
- Clicking a hyperlink to a class will open that class in preview (with out leaving the map).
⏳ Timeline updates
We’ve made a bunch of small quality-of-life modifications to timelines too! These embody:
- ERAS! Now you can have eras finish on the identical yr as the subsequent period begins. We carried out this after listening to your suggestions, so thanks for letting us know what you want!
- EVENT PANEL! We’ve reorganized the occasion enhancing panel to make it simpler to make use of and fewer overwhelming. Some choices that was once there are actually within the “Superior Choices” part.
- Occasion descriptions can now align textual content to the left, proper, or centre.
Verify the information to timelines for extra data!
⚙️ Basic UI tweaks
We’ve upgraded the UI typically, and particularly within the Search widget and the article editor!
- Search will now search for Manuscripts and likewise for notes.
- Statblocks will now seem within the “Proceed Working” part as properly.
- The Search bar will now seem even when the edit modal is open, with out closing the editor.
- When enhancing an article, the article wordcount seems on the backside of the edit modal, together with the final time the article was saved.
- If the autosave fails for any motive (connection points, and so forth), the warning is now clearer and extra noticeable, so that you gained’t lose your valuable work!
🤩 New suggestions modal
The brand new suggestions system, that includes cute elf faces!
We’ve added a spot to present us suggestions DIRECTLY ON THE WEBSITE!
Discover one thing you’re undecided learn how to use? Wish to inform us how cool a brand new function is? Click on the Assist button on the high proper and click on the suggestions button to tell us how we’re doing, and the way we will enhance!
We’re ALWAYS attempting to make World Anvil extra wonderful to your guys, and we learn and talk about each single piece of suggestions we obtain.
📰 New “Information” part within the menu bar
The Information part has been moved to the highest Menu bar! You’ll be able to simply catch as much as World Anvil Information (similar to this weblog put up!) from there. You’ll see not solely our newest weblog posts, but in addition ongoing challenges and competitions, AND the newest Study guides we’ve up to date.
Take a look at the Changelog web page on World Anvil for the total changelog.
🗓️ December occasions
We have now a number of superior occasions this month, to to encourage you and assist you to obtain your objectives!
- 🔥 WorldEmber: the most important worldbuilding problem of the yr is right here! This month, we problem you to jot down 10,000 phrases of worldbuilding—test the problem web page for particulars!
- ✨ Group Day: each third Saturday of the month (twenty first December!) is World Anvil Group Day! Right here’s the programme:
- 🎓 New Yr’s Resolutions & Methods for seeing them by way of! (5pm UK/9am Pacific): Be part of this month’s Sage Roundtable to debate setting objectives and learn how to obtain them! Discover the hyperlink within the Skilled Portal (Sages solely).
- 👻 Ghosts of WorldEmber’s Previous (6pm UK/10am Pacific): Be part of us on this stream as we have a look again on the historical past of WorldEmber and the group!
- ☕ Interior Sanctum Espresso: when you’re a member of the Interior Sanctum, maintain your eyes peeled for this month’s Espresso particulars on Discord!
Comply with us on Twitch to be taught after we go stay!
🏆 Bodily WorldEmber winner certificates
This yr, when you win WorldEmber (i.e. get to 10k phrases or greater) you should purchase a bodily certificates with gold foil, a wax seal, and written by an expert calligrapher. It’s also possible to get them as items for others, or (this yr solely) purchase certificates to rejoice your earlier WorldEmber wins.
Get yours to point out off your wonderful success to the world!
🎁 World Anvil Present Memberships!
‘Tis the season of giving! And a World Anvil membership is a present of creativity and group, good for the writers, GMs and aspiring worldbuilders in your life! Whether or not you’re on the lookout for items to your family members, or questioning what to request from Santa (or Krampus, or whoever!) for your self, yow will discover World Anvil Present Subscriptions right here.
🎥 November YouTube round-up
Listed here are all of the movies that we launched this month—test them out for ideas, inspiration, and recommendation to energy up your worldbuilding!
Subscribe to our channel to see after we put up new movies!
🌟 Group spotlight
This month’s function is Magic in Niorath, an summary of how magic works on the planet of Niorath, by kefkejaco, who gained the Pillars of Progress 2024 Award with this text! Right here’s what they needed to say:
The world of Niorath has at all times been behind my thoughts for a very long time. It began with me drawing maps again in 2010 and finally pondering of tales inside that world. Once I found D&D I actually needed to begin writing stuff down. World Anvil was the proper place to jot down every part down however I had by no means anticipated the expansion it had after becoming a member of. All the World Anvil challenges and its group proved to be an awesome assist at working every part out and enhancing. It even led me to some worldbuilding I didn’t initially plan however that grew to become my favourite elements of Niorath. Successful the award Pillars of Progress for my magic system felt like a fruits of a protracted path and I’m so grateful for everybody locally who helped me alongside the way in which ❤️
Should you’re on the lookout for a deep and very well-organized article about magic, take a look at Magic in Niorath now!
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