World Anvil is a worldbuilding community and collection of tools for authors, role-playing game storytellers, and anyone who enjoys creating fictional worlds. The platform helps users organize and share their creative projects through features such as world encyclopedias, codices, atlases, maps, timelines, histories, books, and campaign materials. It also offers resources for getting started, including worldbuilding prompts and random generators, alongside community spaces where creators can publish articles and explore one another’s work.

World Anvil serves a range of creative roles, with dedicated pathways for gamemasters, authors, and artists. Its broader offerings include memberships, gifts, shop merchandise, an API, events, streaming, and major community challenges such as WorldEmber and Summer Camp. The site also provides a podcast, blog, Discord community, and other social channels for news and connection. Whether developing a setting for a novel or preparing a role-playing campaign, creators can use World Anvil to build, document, and present their ideas in one shared environment.