Create your first world

A world is your setting — the place the lore, the cast, the maps and the history all live, under one roof called the World Hub. It isn’t the same thing as a campaign: one world can host a long-running game, a few one-shots and a spin-off table all at once, so you’ll usually want one world per setting, not one per game.

Worlds are also happy to be small. Yours can be a single night’s notes for a one-shot or twenty years of homebrew — start with whatever you actually have.

Tip

Joining someone else’s game rather than running your own? You don’t need to make a world at all — skip ahead to Join a game. Worlds shared with you show up under Shared worlds.

Here’s the path from nothing to your first page of lore.

Create the world

1. Open Worlds from the sidebar (under PLAY).
2. Click + Create World.
3. Give it a World Name — the description, tags, and world image are all optional and can wait.
4. Click Create, then open your new world’s card and hit View world to enter the World Hub.

Meet the World Hub

The Hub is your world’s workspace, organised into six tabs:

• Overview — a dashboard of recent activity and highlights across the world.
• Wiki — your lore articles, with the page tree in the side rail.
• Entities — the canonical people, places, and factions of your setting.
• Links — connections between your world’s content.
• Atlas — maps, scenes, and boards bound to the world.
• Timeline — the world’s history as datable events.

Write your first wiki page

1. In the Hub’s top bar, open the + create menu and choose Wiki page. A fresh Untitled Page opens in the Wiki tab.
2. Replace the title with something evocative — a kingdom, a tavern, session zero notes.
3. Start writing. The editor saves as you work, and typing [[ lets you link to other pages as your wiki grows.

Create your first entity

Entities are the canonical records of your setting: the same NPC can appear on a wiki page, a board, and a map, with all three pointing at one entry you only have to update once.

1. Open the + create menu again and choose Entity.
2. Pick a type — Person, Place, Faction, Item, and friends — and give it a name.
3. Save it, and find it any time under the Entities tab.

Note

On Starter you can create 1 world, 20 wiki pages, and 10 entities — plenty for a first setting. Booster and Collector remove these caps entirely.

Related

• The World Hub — every tab in depth
• Creating & editing entities — the full entity form
• Actors vs entities — why your character isn’t in your world
• Worlds — what a world holds, and what stays in your account
• Join a game — the path for players