Collaborative worldbuilding
A world gets richer with more hands on it — a co-GM fleshing out factions, a friend who owns the pantheon. Here’s how to open your world up without losing the plot.
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Invite your co-authors. Click Share on the world and add people by username with Read & Edit access — they get a notification and the world appears on their Shared with you page. Collaborators & seats covers roles and managing access.
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Know your seats. Each person you give edit access to uses one editor seat, however many things you share with them: Booster has 2 seats, Collector has 15, and read-only access is always free. Details in collaborators & seats.
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Use a link for the wider circle. For readers who don’t need to edit, a read-only share link is faster than naming everyone — set an expiry, and revoke it when the playtest ends.
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Divide the wiki, then interlink. Give each author a corner — a region, a faction, a pantheon — as folders in the World Hub’s page tree. The editor saves as you work, and
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Go live on boards. Boards are where simultaneous editing shines: turn on live collaboration and everyone edits the same canvas with named cursors. Enabling it is Collector — but once on, collaborators on any plan join in. Use comments for async feedback between sessions.
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Make shared things canonical. When two authors write about the same person or place, promote it to an entity so every page, board, and map points at one record — and add aliases for its other names so nobody creates a duplicate.
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Keep an eye on the whole. The Hub’s Links tab shows the world’s entire connection graph — orphaned pages and lonely clusters stand out at a glance — and the timeline keeps everyone’s history on one shared axis. Start from the World Hub.