A bespoke world building template for anything in your setting

World Anvil boasts not just one worldbuilding template! We have a world building template for every aspect of your world, allowing you to create it in as much or a little detail as you like! Each world building template prompts you with questions to help you flesh out your world setting in wiki-like articles, complete with quick mentions and super-speed search, so you’ll be able to track every fragment of your amazing setting!

If you’re looking for DnD worldbuilding tools, you’re in the right place. Create the perfect tavern for your players to start in, right down to the mega-dungeon, with the Buildings template. World Anvil’s DnD world building template for stat blocks allows you to homebrew monsters, NPCs, weapons and spells! Then use our Country, Organization, Species (for monsters) and settlement world building templates to flesh out your world!

Keep track of everything in your world with our worldbuilding templates. Authors will 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.

For fantasy worldbuilding, check out our spells, rituals and traditions templates! Myths and Legends is another great fantasy world building template from our bespoke set, designed by writers for writers! You can even document supernatural conditions, like Vampirism and Lycanthropy, in the conditions template.

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 technology!

And even better, make sure you check out our world building prompts system! Our prompts are 100% genre agnostic, and whether you’re looking for scifi worldbuilding prompts or fantasy worldbuilding prompts, you’ll find something to inspire you. 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!