This month, we’re letting the neighborhood (that’s you!) take the highlight! As an alternative of an official problem, we’re presenting the unofficial neighborhood challenges you’ve created, in an occasion we’re dubbing this Friendship February.
Why participate in a World Anvil unofficial problem?
Nicely, they’re a good way to get inspiration and broaden your world! Since many members learn one another’s entries, they’re additionally unbelievable for seeing how completely different creators reply to the identical immediate. And naturally, many creators in a problem learn every each other’s work and touch upon it – so that you may get suggestions, and even new followers, too!
Oh… and if that’s not sufficient, a number of of those challenges have badges and even a prize for the winner!
Listed here are six of our favourite UNOFFICIAL challenges – run by the neighborhood – you could participate on this month!
1. Duckuary 2025: fill your world with… geese! 🦆
Enter this problem with ANY form of content material (articles, maps, timelines)… so long as it’s duck-related! There’s a participation badge to go together with it, and also you may win an e-book copy of Structuring Life to Help Creativity, by Sandra Tayler. And because it’s the second 12 months Tillerz runs this problem, you possibly can even try final 12 months’s entries to get some inspiration.
Examine the Duckuary 2025 problem web page and use #duckuary2025 in the neighborhood stream to share your entry!
2. Ink & Essence: dive deep into a personality ✒️
Girl Wynter, this problem’s organizer, invitations you to delve deep into your worldbuilding by making a richly detailed character article and a fascinating prose piece that brings the character’s story to life. Discover pivotal moments, hidden backstories, or transformative occasions that outline your character and form their legacy. You may even win a $25 present card!
Examine the Ink & Essence problem web page for the foundations and a few inspiration!
3. 12in12: It’s the season of affection! 💌
This problem is judged collaboratively by Kiyomo and Mochimanoban, and it’s all about love and relationships! There’s each a participation and a winner badge to be received, and is open to any form of worldbuilding, so long as it’s love-related. That is a part of Kiyomo’s 12in12 year-long occasion, through which each month they launch a brand new problem with a visitor decide from the neighborhood and, in fact, a novel badge!
Examine the problem web page for extra particulars!
4. Get within the Recreation! Immortalize your world 🕵️
On this one-month worldbuilding problem, you may get your worldbuilding immortalized as a cameo in WordiGirl’s upcoming card buying and selling sport, “Rock, Paper, Scissor, Spy”! There are not any limitations for the article’s subject, so be at liberty to let your creativeness run wild!
Examine the Get within the Recreation! problem web page for particulars!
5. Problem about challenges and challengers 🔥
On this problem, Rahjar challenges you to write down about… challenges! Write an article of a unique template every day of the month that’s associated indirectly with challenges. This may very well be problem traditions, gadgets utilized in challenges… the sky is the restrict!
Examine the Problem about challenges and challenges web page for particulars and examples!
6. Labeled February: hold it secret, hold it protected 🤫
Jester% challenges you to write down about secrets and techniques in your world. Uncover the secrets and techniques and lies that everybody needs to get their arms on in your world and dive deep into the conflicts that emerge round secrets and techniques and fact! This problem is a part of Jester%’s Challengathon, a sequence of challenges for the whole thing of 2025!
Examine the Labeled February problem web page for particulars!
Particular point out: Let’s make a narrative! 🙌
Ever performed that sport the place one individual begins a narrative, and everybody else takes turns persevering with it in their very own quirky means? Nicely, that’s the form of inventive chaos Imagica (aka Make lore, not conflict) is bringing to World Anvil! All all through February, a number of members of the neighborhood can have 48 hours every to proceed the story.
Signal-ups for this occasion are actually closed, but it surely’s such a cool idea I had to incorporate it! Maintain and eye on the problem web page to see the ultimate story when it will get revealed!
Which challenges are you participate in?
You can focus all of your inventive vitality on a single one, or you would enter a number of challenges without delay for final neighborhood worldbuilding insanity! Do not forget that having enjoyable is the purpose of those occasions, and I for one can’t wait to see the superior creations these occasions will encourage.
So, you realize the drill… seize your hammer and go worldbuild!