Happy timezones, Anvilites! Here’s the news for this week!

Last chance to submit to Adventure April!

Adventure April ends this Saturday! Submit your RPG adventure (or rebel short story) before Saturday to make sure you get the participation badge AND a chance to win! https://www.worldanvil.com/community/challenge/adventure-april-2026/homepage

New competition launching on Saturday

A new worldbuilding competition is launching this Saturday! It will have a single prompt, to be answered with a single article, and you’ll have four weeks to write it. Catch the stream this Saturday to be the first to know what it will be about!

What’s Chesterton’s Fence Paradox?

If you remove something without understanding why it was there in the first place, you risk causing chaos! What catastrophe will befall the characters, when someone (inevitably) gets rid of the “useless” barrier, object, or tradition? Check this week’s video to learn about this! https://youtu.be/4yuXY-xQoqs

Hopeful Speculative Fiction, with Trent Hergenrader & Stephen Slota

In this week’s stream, we’re talking about hopeful speculative fiction with writers Trent Hergenrader & Stephen Slota! Tune in on Twitch this Saturday at 6pm UK/10am Pacific time: https://twitch.tv/worldanvil

Featured article: Train Dragon by PanthersEye

This week’s featured article is about a revolutionary technology that changed the island world of Feidao! Check out this article by PanthersEye, which was nominated to the Pillars of Progress Award, and give it some love! https://www.worldanvil.com/w/feidao-pantherseye/a/train-dragon-vehicle

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