Worldbuilding Awards 2024 entries list
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by Roc Humet
1w ago
Congratulations to EVERYONE who submitted an entry to the Worldbuilding Awards 2024! From March 4th to 17th, many Anvilites have submitted their best work to one of the Awards’ categories, and now is time to vote. Use this post to access all submissions by category. How to vote Voting will begin on March 20th; here’s how to cast your votes: Choose your favorite entry from a category. Find the voting widget in the entry. Use the widget to cast your vote! You don’t need a World Anvil account to vote (although you will need to use your email address), and you can only vote for one entry per cat ..read more
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Your First 10 Worldbuilding Articles
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by Kat French
1w ago
Worldbuilding can be intimidating! After all, it’s creating an entire world and everything in it. But every game or book setting always starts with a single big idea – that’s your premise. But where do you go from there? A worldbuilding checklist can help you create a basic setting for your homebrew adventures or novel series, so you can start playing (or writing) faster. At World Anvil, we’ve seen many storytellers get excited about their big idea, open a fresh notebook or document, and start writing all their ideas down. Which is a great starting place! But we’ve also seen countless worldbui ..read more
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Running an Unofficial Challenge: How and Why!
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by worldanvil
2w ago
It’s Unofficial Challenge Month, and it’s time to talk Unofficial Challenges. I’m Annie Stein, the author and artist behind Solaris. I’m a frequent competitor in the awesome challenges run by World Anvil, and I ran the first Unofficial Challenge back in 2021 with two amazing co-judges. This is my Unofficial Guide to Unofficial Challenges, where I teach you all the stuff I’ve learned both as a competitor and organizer! As an example to help illustrate this article, I’ll be sharing some of the work I did for the last challenge I ran: the Unofficial Under the Sea Flash Challenge  in May of 2 ..read more
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Netflix Avatar: The Last Airbender — Review & analysis!
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by Roc Humet
3w ago
I recently finished Netflix’s adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, one of my favorite stories ever, and… well, I have thoughts! I was extremely hyped for the series and, while I found some areas disappointing, I overall enjoyed watching it. This review will include spoilers for both the adaptation and book 1 of the cartoon, but if you just want to know my quick spoiler-free thoughts… Is it a good adaptation? It takes a lot of liberties with the source material with mixed success, but it keeps the same overall storyline (kind of). Should you watch it? Yes! It’s a good story on its own, an ..read more
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World Anvil News: March 2024
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by Roc Humet
3w ago
March is here, and with it a bunch of exciting events! From Worldbuilding Con, to the Worldbuilding Awards and many unofficial challenges, here’s everything you need to know this month! Worldbuilding Con is back! Worldbuilding Con, the free online convention for worldbuilders, is coming back this month! Save the date for March 16th and 17th to attend panels from experts like Tracy Hickman and C. L. Clark. Learn more – Get notified on YouTube – Follow us on Twitch New maps We’ve updated maps to make adding markers of all sorts easier! You no longer need to refresh when adding a new mark ..read more
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Interactive Maps Upgrades
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by Janet Forbes
3w ago
Don’t worry – be Mappy! Our interactive maps have JUST gotten an upgrade. Same great features, now quicker, easier and more streamlined to use What’s new in this Interactive Maps Update? For those of you already familiar with Interactive Maps, you’ll find everything very familiar! What’s changed is the speed and ease of use of creation on interactive maps, particularly when creating new pins. It’s faster than ever to populate a map with your worldbuilding goodness!   Creation is faster and easier It’s quicker and easier to create new pins on your map, and everything happens live, meanin ..read more
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March 2024: Unofficial Challenge Month!
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by Janet Forbes
1M ago
This month, instead of running our own challenge with spotlighting, you guys! Yes, March 2024 is Unofficial Challenge month! What’s an Unofficial Challenge? If you’ve been part of the World Anvil Community for a while, you’ve probably seen that we’ve run challenges and competitions for our community. You can see all of our past challenges here. But from time to time our community members like to run their own challenges. This challenges can vary a lot. Sometimes they are competitions with prizes, but very often they’re more along the lines of participation challenges.  New to World Anvil ..read more
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Forge the Future 2023 results!
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by Roc Humet
1M ago
The Forge the Future survey closed a couple of weeks ago, and we couldn’t be more excited to have a close look at your answers! We really want World Anvil to be the best worldbuilding tool for you, so your feedback will make a huge difference in our future. Thank you to everyone who took the survey! Quick stats sneak peek! If you answered the survey, you got this badge in your World Anvil profile! Over 3,000 of you took the survey (enough to fill my hometown several times over), so we couldn’t be happier about the survey’s success. Here are some stats we got from the survey! Over 80 % would ..read more
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Making the extraordinary relatable: Dimday Red
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by worldanvil
1M ago
Today we’re pleased to feature a guest post from Spiros Drakatos, Game Designer and Creator of Dimday Red. Catch their latest Kickstarter for Nodus 02, and be sure to check out the  ..read more
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Guests revealed for WorldbuildingCon ’24
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by Kat French
1M ago
We’re thrilled to announce our amazing line-up of experts for our 2024 Worldbuilding Con! What’s Worldbuilding Con again? a free, online Con for all worldbuilders, game masters and writers a chance to hear from world experts on critical topics, and even ask questions live! Save the date: 16-17th March! Learn more, and become a better worldbuilder!  INTRODUCING OUR WORLDBUILDING CON GUESTS LINE UP! R.A. Salvatore – Fantasy author of the Drizzt novels with over 30 million book sales. Tracy Hickman – NYT Best Selling Author & Cre ..read more
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