The spooky season is upon us—and with it, a brand new problem to spook up your world! 👻 Now we have new main options to introduce, and we’ll reveal particulars in regards to the Worldbuilding Awards later within the month too, together with some main modifications from final yr! Listed here are all the small print.
📝 UI upgrades
We’ve upgraded the short create/edit processes and secrets and techniques and usually tweaked the interface to make every part quicker and extra optimized—all primarily based in your suggestions! Listed here are a number of the modifications:
- In the event you create an article utilizing the Hammer button, the short create interface will now be bigger to present you extra space to your creativity!
- The brand new fast create modal can also be accessible for modifying if you open an article from the Search bar AND from the Article Administration interface.
- Secrets and techniques now use an edit modal too, so that they’re manner simpler and faster to create and edit!
And should you’re a Grandmaster+, you’ve most likely already seen the notification that SOMETHING is offered for testing now. 👀 That needs to be popping out for everybody later this month, too. (Not an Alchemist but? Learn the way to be part of the alchemists right here)
🤫 Function enchancment: revealed secrets and techniques
Secrets and techniques acquired an improve to make them extra versatile! Intimately…
- Now you can set a secret as “public”, which principally means which you can very simply reveal secrets and techniques to your gamers or readers!
- In case you have RPG options enabled, you’ll even have a field for GM secrets and techniques that may all the time keep non-public, even when the key as a complete is public.
- For Grandmasters of the Guild, you may as well set a customized CSS class for the key to present it a singular look.
To see all these options, simply edit any secret in your world! Test the information to secrets and techniques for extra data.
🎲 New character sheets!
Due to the wonderful Tillerz, we now have two extra techniques with character sheets on World Anvil!
- Fringe of the Empire. Bounce on a spaceship together with your droid and Chewbacca buddies to discover the worlds of a galaxy far, distant! (click on for an instance)
- Alternity (1999 version). It is a versatile d20 system designed for sci-fi and house campaigns (though it’s versatile sufficient for use in a number of expertise eras). It lends itself fantastically to house opera, navy sci-fi, and exploration-focused campaigns however it has considerably reasonable lethality… so don’t get shot! (click on for an instance!)
 
Alternity Character Sheet |
 
Fringe of the Empire character sheet |
You need to use these sheets with our marketing campaign supervisor to run your marketing campaign on World Anvil. And examine the information to statblocks for extra details about creating sheets!
Try the Changelog web page on World Anvil for the total changelog.
🗓️ October occasions
Now we have a number of superior occasions this month!
- 😱 Spooktober: This month’s problem is Spooktober! Reply no less than 13 one-word prompts earlier than October twenty sixth and get the participation badge. Be taught extra within the problem web page!
- ✨ Neighborhood Day: each third Saturday of the month (nineteenth October, this month!) is World Anvil Neighborhood Day! Right here’s the programme:
- 🎓 Seasonal Gross sales: a gaggle spherical desk dialogue (5pm UK/9am Pacific): Be part of this Sage roundtable to debate with different skilled worldbuilders the right way to cope with seasonal gross sales! Discover the hyperlink within the Skilled Portal (Sages solely).
- 🙌 “Is {that a} Monster?” Supernatural and Horror worlds (6pm UK/10am Pacific): Be part of us as we chat with Anvilites Daeni and Ademal about creating darkish worlds on World Anvil!
- ☕ Internal Sanctum Espresso: should you’re a member of the Internal Sanctum, maintain your eyes peeled for this month’s Espresso particulars on Discord!
Observe us on Twitch to be taught after we go dwell!
📚 NovelEmber is coming in November!
In response to neighborhood requests, we’ll be working a NovelEmber occasion this November. We’ll problem you to jot down 50,000 phrases of prose to win a badge and a certificates! We’ll even be working some prep occasions over October for this—extra particulars will comply with quickly!
🎥 September YouTube round-up
Our YouTube channel is again! Listed here are all of the movies that we launched this month—examine them out for suggestions, inspiration, and recommendation to energy up your worldbuilding!
What’s the Tiffany downside in fantasy? How will you create a very good Sword & Sorcery setting? These are simply a number of the latest movies on our YouTube channel. Test it out now for suggestions, inspirations, and recommendation to energy up your worldbuidling!
🌟 Neighborhood spotlight
This month’s spotlight is After Silence, a darkish and unforgiving fantasy setting through which demon hordes tried to destroy the world, and now humanity struggles to outlive. Right here’s what Hatwolf, the creator of the world, needed to say:
With After Silence, I intention to inform the tales of archetypes usually seen as ‘outcasts,’ ‘villains,’ or ‘depraved’ in conventional fantasy worlds—like witches, monsters, and cursed beings. These are characters I’ve all the time recognized with extra deeply than the heroes in shining armor. My purpose is to create a world the place their voices are heard, their experiences shared. Constructing this world as a contract artist and author is a difficult, however the recognition of being voted Finest Newcomer on World Anvil meant every part to me—it’s an enormous encouragement to maintain going.
This world gained the Finest Newcomer 2024 award, and it really deserves it! So should you’re trying to dive into an immersive darkish fantasy world, take a look at After Silence now!
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