A WORLDBUILDING TEMPLATE FOR EVERY PART OF YOUR SETTING
- Guided prompts for your game wiki or world bible.
- Templates for every genre - from fantasy to scifi.
- Article templates for novels, homebrew DnD & more!
COMPLETE SET OF GUIDED WORLDBUILDING TEMPLATES
Worldbuilding templates for any storyteller! Guided, professionally-designed worldbuilding templates obliterate your creative blocks! Fill in as much or as little detail as you like. Each template includes smart questions to spark ideas for a unique game or story setting. Find guided templates for:
- Building
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- Deity
- Geography
- Item
- Organization
- Religion
- Settlement
- Species
- Vehicle
Plus 16 More Advanced Worldbuilding Templates! Build your setting with wiki-like articles, and connect everything with our auto-linker and super-fast search.
D&D WORLD BUILDING TEMPLATES FOR YOUR HOMEBREW CAMPAIGN
If you’re looking for DnD worldbuilding templates, you’re in the right place! Describe unforgettable locations from rowdy taverns to atmospheric mega-dungeons. Create homebrew monsters, NPCs, weapons and spells easily! Our world building templates can add unique flavor and depth to your adventure setting. Gamemaster worldbuilding templates include:
- Condition
- Conflict
- Document
- Ethnicity
- Language
- Material
- Military
- Myth
- Natural Law
- Plot
- Profession
- Prose
DELVE INTO OUR NOVEL WORLD BUILDING TEMPLATE SET!
Capture every element of your fantastical novel setting with our story worldbuilding templates. Writers love our novel world building template set, which boasts one of the most extensive character creators available! Create cities and settlements for your characters to explore, document strange languages and detail new civilizations, with our world bible template set.
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CRAFT MORE MAGICAL REALMS WITH FANTASY WORLDBUILDING TEMPLATES!
Whether you’re going full Star Trek, with strange worlds and new civilisations, or keeping it close-future, Expanse-style, World Anvil’s sci fi world building template set can help you build a richer, deeper world. Make sure you check out the vehicle template (for all those starships!) and the technology template, perfect for documenting the latest breakthroughs in science and gear!
FRESH WORLDBUILDING PROMPTS TO KEEP THE IDEAS FLOWING!
Never get stuck again, thanks to our world building prompts system! Fresh daily inspiration on your dashboard with 100% genre agnostic worldbuilding prompts. Whether you’re looking for sci fi or fantasy worldbuilding ideas, you’ll find something to bust your creative blocks into oblivion! Many have extra inspiration attached, like videos, blog posts and even public articles of other users who've chosen to share their ideas with the community!
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