The spooky season is over—however on World Anvil, meaning the WorldEmber enjoyable is simply starting! And this yr, we’re additionally debuting our new occasion NovelEmber too. Let’s check out what’s new this month!
📝 The brand new Visible Editor is (largely) out!
The Visible Editor replaces the outdated Plato/WYSIWYG editor by fixing all of its bugs and making it a lot, a lot better and simpler to make use of! Drag and drop pictures straight into your articles, create tables visually by typing “/”, and way more.
Proper now, the editor is accessible in full to new worlds solely. For older worlds, it’s applied when creating articles, secrets and techniques, notes, and timeline occasions (full implementation for outdated worlds will come quickly). Verify the discharge weblog to be taught extra!
🔧 Article creation tweaks
After listening to your suggestions, we’ve tweaked the brand new article creation modal to make it extra comfy and faster to make use of!
- You possibly can soar straight to the superior edit web page from the article creation modal. Simply mouse excessive proper of the template panel, and the Superior Edit choice will seem (desktop solely)!
- The modal is now narrower to accommodate bigger screens, and the template blocks are shorter so extra are seen without delay.
- We’ve added fast copy buttons for the article point out and block within the article creation display.
🎲 Your Recreation Grasp ULTIMATE Powers!
Recreation Masters, Storytellers, Dungeon Masters, no matter you name your self! You now have ULTIMATE POWER… to View and Edit the character sheets of your gamers! This works even when the sheets are personal/hidden from different gamers, that means you may verify they’ve mathed appropriately, and assist them stage up. A large congrats to our superior dev Katerina for making this occur – it was not a straightforward feat of engineering!
⚙️ Different updates and fixes
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Right here’s the remainder of what we up to date this month!
- Substack embed: In case you have a Substack weblog, now you can embed the subscriber type straight into your world with the [substack:USERNAME] tag!
- World dashboard updates: Now you can see a preview of the homepage in your dashboard, together with new fast buttons to make world administration faster. There can be extra updates to the dashboard within the upcoming weeks!
- Discord webhook repair: In case you had been one of many few customers affected by a bug that prevented you from utilizing the Discord webhook, rejoice! The bug is now mounted. Don’t know what that is about? Learn to use the webhook!
Try the Changelog web page on World Anvil for the complete changelog.
🗓️ November occasions
Now we have a number of superior occasions this month, to to encourage you and assist you to obtain your targets!
- 📖 NovelEmber: This month, we problem you to put in writing 50,000 phrases of prose! Be a part of our group and be taught extra on the problem web page!
- 🔥 WorldEmber Prep: WorldEmber, one of many greatest worldbuilding occasions of the yr, is in December—so now’s the time to get your world (and your self) prepared! Be a part of the prep now!
- ✨ Neighborhood Day: each third Saturday of the month (sixteenth November!) is World Anvil Neighborhood Day! Right here’s the programme:
- 🎓 How (and why!) to run Occasions at GenCon? (5pm UK/9am Pacific): This month, Haly the Moonlight Bard, GenCon professional and fellow Sage, will maintain a stream about working GenCon occasions! Discover the hyperlink within the Skilled Portal (Sages solely).
- 🙌 50,000 phrases across the World… Anvil! (6pm UK/10am Pacific): This month, we’ll sit down with Oneriwien and Barron from our group to find out how they sort out large-scale challenges like NovelEmber!
Observe us on Twitch to be taught once we go reside!
🎥 October YouTube round-up
Listed here are all of the movies that we launched this month—verify them out for ideas, inspiration, and recommendation to energy up your worldbuilding!
Subscribe to our channel to see once we submit new movies!
🌟 Neighborhood spotlight
This month, we’re that includes the Yonderverse, a vibrant science fantasy universe filled with drama, battle, a myriad of species, and sophisticated planets and cultures—and it even has a scavenger hunt occurring! Right here’s what Mochimanoban, the creator of the world, needed to say:
The Yonderverse means the world to me. I’ve labored so arduous on it for the final three and a half years, pouring extra time than I most likely must be in writing, creating artwork, and designing my world. Earlier than becoming a member of World Anvil I had zero expertise in writing and worldbuilding, so for my world to have been voted because the Finest World means extra to me than I can describe
The Yonderverse was chosen because the Finest World within the 2024 Worldbuilding Awards, and it’s actually one of the inventive and well-crafted worlds on World Anvil! So in case you’re seeking to brighten your life with some worldbuilding centered on nature and ecosystems, try the Yonderverse now!
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