Joyful new 12 months, Anvilites! I hope you all had an incredible vacation season and are able to proceed in your artistic journey this 12 months. Right here’s what’s new on World Anvil this month. From new options to challenges—let’s begin this new 12 months with a bang!
As all the time, our staff has been busy bettering World Anvil this month!
⚙️ Swap textual content editors, article by article
Just a few months in the past we launched our new Visible Editor—and since then we’ve been working to make the enhancing expertise even higher! Now you can swap your textual content editor on an article by article degree. That is actually helpful, as you get to decide on in order for you a easy and easy writing expertise (with the Visible Editor) or if you wish to use complicated formatting (with Euclid). Learn extra about this replace!
⚙️ The Superior Editor is again, child!
Euclid Customers, rejoice! Additionally a number of months in the past, as a part of the brand new UI rollout across the launch of the Visible Editor, the Superior Editor (aka Euclid) was briefly solely accessible through Superior Edit. BUT IT’S NOW BACK on the principle Edit interface, AND it’s appear some upgrades too! You possibly can learn extra about the Superior Editor upgrades right here.
Cute dragon says hello!
✨ Unfold the love with digital stickers!
Learn an article and find it irresistible a lot that you just really feel a like isn’t sufficient? Effectively, now you’ll be able to present stickers to articles along with your Anvil Cash! Stickers are restricted in each time and amount, so get them whereas they final. Right here’s every little thing it is advisable learn about them!
🎲 New character sheet: Hunter the Reckoning
Due to the superb Graylion, we’ve added the Hunter the Reckoning character sheet for World of Darkness fifth Version! Enter this darkish world to guard the world from the supernatural and the hordes of monsters that prey on humanity. Take a look at this instance sheet!
Take a look at the Changelog web page on World Anvil for the complete changelog.
🗓️ January occasions
We’ve a number of superior occasions this month, to encourage you and allow you to obtain your objectives!
- 🏆 fifth Worldbuilding Awards: submit your greatest worldbuilding to the Worldbuilding Awards (WAWA) and discover your house among the many greatest worldbuilders! You could have till February eighth to submit for a shiny participation badge —examine the occasion web page for particulars!
- 🔥 New Yr’s Resolutions: begin this new 12 months by setting reasonable and achievable objectives in your artistic tasks. Verify the problem web page to be taught extra!
- ✨ Neighborhood Day: each third Saturday of the month (18th January) is World Anvil Neighborhood Day! Right here’s the programme:
- 🎓 New Yr’s Resolutions & Methods for seeing them by way of (5pm UK/9am Pacific): Be a part of this month’s Sage Roundtable to debate setting objectives and obtain them! Discover the hyperlink within the Skilled Portal (Sages solely).
- 👻 Tips on how to enter the Worldbuilding Awards (6pm UK/10am Pacific): we’ll have a chat with some Worldbuilding Awards veterans to provide the greatest ideas and recommendation to enter!
Observe us on Twitch to be taught after we go dwell!
🙌 Register your unofficial challenges for Friendship February!
Planning to run an unofficial problem in February? We’ll be shining a highlight on the challenges organized by YOU, so fill out this fast kind! We’ll share a number of unofficial challenges in a weblog publish and different group areas.
🎥 YouTube round-up
Searching for some Worldbuilding Suggestions from a professional? Listed below are all of the movies we launched final month—examine them out for ideas, inspiration, and recommendation to energy up your worldbuilding!
Subscribe to our channel to see after we publish new movies!
🌟 Neighborhood spotlight
This month we’re that includes a map! Bridgeport is a bustling metropolis in Alana, by Tillerz, and its superb map received the Cartography Award 2024! Right here’s what they needed to say:
I’ve been worldbuilding for a few years, beginning with scribbled notes on scraps of paper stored in a binder. Later, I attempted utilizing a wiki, however managing it usually felt extra time-consuming than the precise writing. Now, my world, Alana, has discovered its correct house on World Anvil, the place it’s lastly taking form in the way in which I all the time envisioned. Having my work recognised by way of the World Anvil Worldbuilding Awards is extremely rewarding, and I deeply admire the assist.
However that is just the start – there’s a lot extra to come back. What began as a private reference for my very own storytelling has grown right into a wealthy pool of concepts designed to encourage and assist anybody who’s a recreation grasp. I’m excited to proceed increasing and sharing this world with others. And in addition making extra sheets.
When you’re searching for a map that not solely seems good, however can also be filled with lore and details about town, take a look at the Bridgeport map now!
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