It’s the top of the 12 months… which implies it’s WorldEmber time! Plus the Articles & World Supervisor is much more improved, we’ve got bulletins for the subsequent Worldbuilding Awards and extra!
Articles & World Supervisor enhancements
A month in the past we launched the brand new Articles & World Supervisor, with a brand new interface and new options that velocity up article creation and administration. We’ve been sorting via the mountains of suggestions you’ve left us and carried out plenty of your requests previously weeks! Right here’s simply a few of them:
- Higher drag-and-drop: When modifying a class, drag articles from the central panel to the left panel to type them into totally different classes.
- Expanded filter choices: The already highly effective filters bought an replace to fine-tune the search outcomes much more, as now you can type by class and in several sorting orders.
- Fast article toggles: Toggle between personal/public, draft/revealed, and WIP/Finished with a single click on and from the article listing too.
- Superior article icons: Now you can choose all icon sorts, together with duotone, skinny, stable, and extra.
And far, rather more. You may learn the complete listing of updates & bugfixes within the changelog, and we’re not performed but! We’ll proceed to observe your suggestions and implement any vital updates and fixes as vital.
🔥 WorldEmber is right here!
WorldEmber is the most important worldbuilding problem of the 12 months, wherein we problem you to put in writing 10k phrases of worldbuilding—or extra! There are particular classes too, and prizes to be received. So test the problem web page and get writing!
Moreover, a bunch of wonderful Anvilites are sponsoring the occasion to make it much more superb with much more prizes! Right here they’re:
- Particular class sponsors: Tillerz, Barron, Daeni, eccbooks, Those2Nerds, AsterVela, Michael Chandra, Janet, Thepinkgm, AelyryaPayne, Asmo, solomonjack, Make lore, not battle, cedes, WordSmithSteve, devinsxdesigns, Dimitris, Absinthe, George Sanders, Moonlight Bard, Vazdimet, Serukis, Kwyn Marie, and WordiGirl
- Raffle sponsors: Tillerz, AelyryaPayne, Thepinkgm, WordiGirl, Michael Chandra, Absinthe, drunkenpanda951, Moonlight Bard, Conquest Publishing, George Sanders
🗓️ All December occasions
WorldEmber is the star of this month, however that’s not all! Listed here are all group occasions:
- 🔥 WorldEmber: This month, write 10k phrases price of worldbuilding and get the badge… and bodily prizes! Test the problem web page.
- 🎅 Group Christmas Occasion: On Saturday twentieth we’ll have the final group stream of the 12 months earlier than the vacations! Tune in on Twitch for enjoyable cozy group vibes.
- 🎓 Sage Roundtable: Making ready articles for competitions – half 2. There was a lot dialogue in final month’s roundtable that we didn’t get to all the things! So this month we’ll have the second a part of this roundtable, the place we focus on put together your world to compete in occasions like WorldEmber and the Worldbuilding Awards. The roundtable will likely be on December thirteenth; you’ll discover the hyperlink within the Skilled Portal.
- ☕ Inside Sanctum Espresso: should you’re a member of the Inside Sanctum, be a part of the bi-monthly Espresso on December twentieth, at 10am UK/2am Pacific and 4pm UK/8am Pacific! Dimitris and Janet will likely be discussing the latest modifications to the positioning, gathering your suggestions, and sharing secret new initiatives! The hyperlink will likely be shared on the Discord channel on the day.
Upcoming Occasions on World Anvil!
Right here’s a listing of our upcoming challenges and group occasions, that will help you prepare:
- December: WorldEmber is right here! Write 10k phrases of worldbuilding (or extra) and win prizes.
- January: Begin a brand new 12 months by setting achievable artistic resolutions (spoiler alert: we’re shaking this problem up this 12 months!)
- February: Submit your entries for the sixth Worldbuilding Awards.
All our challenges launch first on group reside stream, so observe us on Twitch to get the information first!
🔥 Vacation Presents and Stocking Stuffers
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🪐 Worldbuilding Awards particulars
The World Anvil Worldbuilding Awards is our annual contest to highlight the most effective worldbuilding of the 12 months—and your probability to indicate off your laborious work! Award winners get featured within the Showcase Web page and even get a bodily trophy. The submission part for the Awards begins on February seventh, however we need to be sure to have sufficient time to arrange! Try the problem web page for extra details about this occasion.
📚 Declare your NovelEmber win!
NovelEmber is over! Should you achieved the aim you set for your self… congrats! Should you didn’t fairly get there, you continue to tried as laborious as you may, which can be price celebrating. Should you received, there’s a digital winner certificates AND a winner badge ready for you—and should you didn’t, you’ll be able to declare the participation badge too! Go to the problem web page and click on on “declare your win”.
📹 YouTube video round-up
Want just a little push to enhance your worldbuilding? Or need some recommendation from knowledgeable worldbuilder? Listed here are our newest YouTube movies:
- D&D Bastions: The Secret to Participant Involvement. How will you let your gamers form the world with out destroying all your laborious worldbuilding work? Allow them to construct a house base (and hireling NPCs) they care about!
- What’s “West Marches” Fashion D&D? Should you’ve been maintaining with Important Function’s fourth marketing campaign, they’re working what they’re calling a West Marches fashion marketing campaign. And extra homebrew DMs ought to take into account this strategy to sandbox worldbuilding!
- 5 Completely Free Presents for Your GM. Listed here are 5 completely free presents that may make your GM’s coronary heart develop three sizes this vacation season (and should you’re the GM… ship this video to your gamers in case they want a touch!)
- Why Your Sci-Fi or Fantasy Tales Get Rejected. Theme is the lacking ingredient in lots of rejected quick tales. Particularly when writers fall in love with their premise. On this video, you’ll study the distinction between premise and theme, spot a lacking or mangled theme, and repair it.
- Ought to You Worldbuild Your Novel Setting First? Ever questioned when it is best to worldbuild your novel setting? Earlier than you write? When you write? Or after? Right here’s a framework you’ll be able to take a look at, tweak, and completely make your personal, whether or not you’re a plotter, pantser or one thing in-between!
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🌟 Group spotlight
This month, we’re that includes one of many shiniest maps on World Anvil! This received the Artist’s Cartography Award within the fifth Worldbuilding Awards—not solely is it a really informative and clear map, it’s additionally lovely to take a look at. That is Shadowfire, by Ononomad; go test it out now!
And right here’s what Ononomad needed to say about this attractive map and the origins of Shadowfire:
The very first spark of Shadowfire occurred manner again when as a 10yr previous I learn Dune, and form of clearly questioned: so… what if half desert, half ice? And figuring out our Moon at all times confronted us, it wasn’t an enormous leap for me to marvel what if our planet turned tidally locked to the solar?
This idea sat deep in my mind for the next… ahem… few many years, till I began getting again into RPGs and writing. When Covid hit I discovered time was now on my facet and used that as a possibility to breathe some life into the thought.
I dove deep into an internet vortex of tectonics, local weather, astrophysics, and worldbuilding (together with after all World Anvil) and tried a couple of applications like Wonderdraft, however discovered the method of hand-drawing a lot extra cathartic.
In fact magic wanted to be concerned – which led me to my cosmology and deep historical past of the world and why it’s formed as it’s. That is the second huge idea of Shadowfire: what if the magics of creation allow residing issues to create gods and convey their needs into actuality. How would that work for people and the collective, and into themes of group and collaboration vs subjugation and management? This I noticed as an analogy for our fashionable ‘post-truth’ age of propaganda, memes and cults of character we’re all buffeted by, and in Shadowfire phrases, this was the reason for the Godling Wars and the Destruction that formed the maps I used to be drawing.
Over the previous few years, World Anvil – the platform, the group, and all of the common challenges – have been nothing however an exquisite inspiration for me, even when life typically will get in the best way. Everybody’s artistic work, huge and small, has impressed me to dig deeper into the cultures, communities, characters and all of the bizarre implications of the forces that formed Shadowfire.
Profitable the award for the map was superior after all, very satisfied that one thing that has been effervescent away in my head for many of my life has bought individuals’s consideration, nevertheless it actually is the group that’s the largest prize for positive, so thanks all.
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