Article template guides

Guide to the organization template

Guide to the character template

Use the Character template to write about any named creature in your world! This includes people, but also the protagonist's pet dinosaur, a vengeful god, and even sentient doors. If it has a name and a personality, it's a character!

Guide to the building template

Use the Building template to write about any type of constructions, from the smallest hut to the largest cyberpunk megacorp HQ. You can also use it for monuments, streets, city squares, wells, and rooms within a building

Guide to the geography template

Use the Geography template to write about natural places (i.e. not built by people). Think mountains, rivers, continents, and even entire planets, galaxies, and universes!

Guide to the item template

Use the Item template template to write about any type of object. This includes tools, clothes, weapons, and even food!

Guide to the species template

Use the Species template to write about any group of organisms that consist of similar individuals capable of interbreeding or exchanging genes among themselves. This includes different species of animals, plants, fungi, dragons and microorganisms!

Guide to the settlement template

Use the Settlement template to write about any place where a group of people live in an organized way; from the smallest hamlet to the largest space station!

Guide to the Generic Article template

Use the Generic Article template to write about anything that doesn't quite fit any of the other templates! The Generic Article template is a blank canvas for your writing, which you can use for content like RPG mechanics, mini-metas, primers, or simply very specific worldbuilding details that don't perfectly fit into another template.

Guide to the session report template

If you're using World Anvil to run an RPG campaign, you can use the Session Report template to write about what happened during a game

Guide to the vehicle template

Use the Vehicle template to write about any kind of means of transportation. This includes medieval carriages, automobiles, aircrafts and armored vehicles!

Guide to the condition template

Use the Condition template to write about diseases, mutations, transformations, superpowers, and even RPG statuses. On World Anvil, a Condition is anything that a person can get (or is born with) and alters their physical or mental state

Guide to the material template

Use the Material template to write about any type of resource that something else is made out of. That can be a substance or mixture of substances that constitutes an object. This includes pure or impure materials and living or non-living matter!

Guide to the Conflict template

Use the Conflict template to write about ANY type of conflict between two (or more) people or groups. Think wars, street fights, and even a heated after-dinner discussion!

Guide to the document template

Use the Document template to write about anything that contains records about something. This includes books, but also audio/music recordings, letters, and even illustrations!

Guide to the ethnicity template

Use the Ethnicity template to write about people who share a common ancestry or culture. This includes people with the same social and cultural characteristics, backgrounds, or experiences.

Guide to the language template

Use the Language template to write about an actual language, but also about dialects, slang, secret codes, and any other system of communication.