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An RPG campaign manager
for living worlds.

Prepare adventures, find your lore during play, and turn the party’s choices into the next chapter of your world. World Anvil connects your campaign to the setting that makes it matter.

Your next session.
Already taking shape.

A memorable campaign begins with the people your players meet and the choices they face. World Anvil’s templates help you develop NPCs, locations, and plots with prompts that encourage useful detail. Link those articles so the adventure and its setting stay connected.

Prepare the innkeeper, the missing caravan, and the dangerous road together. When a minor NPC becomes the party’s favorite, their article is already there to develop. Your preparation becomes part of a lasting campaign world rather than a discarded session document.

Explore templates for your campaign →

World Anvil campaign session planning interface

Keep the game moving.
Keep your world close.

The digital Storyteller Screen brings your campaign information into reach during play. Use your prepared notes, linked lore, and statblocks to respond when the party asks an unexpected question or heads toward a location you had not planned to visit.

Set the atmosphere with embedded media in your world’s articles. Keep the setting’s names, faces, and important details available so you can spend more attention on the conversation around the table.

Explore character sheets and statblocks →

World Anvil digital GM screen

From the world map
to the next wrong turn.

Make your geography part of the adventure. Add clickable markers to your uploaded maps, connect them to location articles, and link maps together so you can move from a region to a town or dungeon.

Use map layers and markers to organize the information you need. Your campaign map can become both a reference for preparation and an invitation for players to explore. A name on the map leads directly to the lore behind it.

Explore interactive maps →

A detailed city map from Cathedris on World Anvil

Show them the rumor.
Keep the revelation.

A campaign world has more than one point of view. Players need the local story; you need the secret behind it. World Anvil provides secrets, spoiler markers, and access tools to help you decide what your audience can discover.

Separate player-facing lore from your private preparation using the controls available on your membership. Keep the reveal for the right moment rather than putting every clue into a shared document.

Explore privacy and access options →

Example: a mystery with two perspectives

  1. What the town knowsThe old tower has been empty for a century.
  2. What the GM knowsIts keeper still answers to the missing royal family.
  3. What the party discoversA familiar seal appears on a newly delivered letter.

Let their choices
become history.

The best campaigns remember what the party did. Use your world’s articles and timelines to record the events that matter: the rescued rival, the fallen city, the promise that still needs to be kept.

That record helps you connect later adventures to earlier decisions. It also gives players somewhere to revisit the people and places they helped change. Your setting grows through play, with a history that belongs to your table.

Explore campaign history and timelines →

Your campaign, carried forward

  1. Before the sessionEstablish the faction’s goal and the town’s problem.
  2. During the sessionLet the party choose whom to trust.
  3. After the sessionRecord the changed allegiance and prepare its consequences.

Follow your
next idea.

Explore our worldbuilding software, prepare your next adventure with the RPG campaign manager, or compare worldbuilding tools.

Begin with the part of your world you cannot wait to create. Give it a home, make a connection, and let the next idea follow.

The three civilizations of Ménicéa, a community world on World Anvil