Worldbuilding Prompts

Get Inspired with World Anvil's Worldbuilding prompts for writers and game masters

Regardless if you are writing your next novel or you are a D&D dungeon master, at some point you will get stuck. It happens to all of us. These worldbuilding prompts are here to inspire you to write your next article and help you spark the next idea that will get you going.

Each of these worldbuilding prompts is designed to fit in one of World Anvil's templates and clicking on the of each of them will give you more information in the form of link and videos to get thinking and of course a list of all other articles written for this worldbuilding prompt to see what the rest of the people in the community have been up to.

•   Buildings
•   Characters
•   Conditions
•   Documents
•   Ethnicities
•   Geographic Locations
•   Generic
•   Items
•   Laws (Natural & Metaphysical)
•   Languages
•   Materials
•   Military Conflicts
•   Military Formations
•   Myths & Legends
•   Organizations
•   Professions
•   Prose
•   Ranks & Titles
•   Settlements
•   Species
•   Spells & Abilities
•   Story Plots
•   Technologies & Sciences
•   Traditions & Rituals
•   Vehicles

Instructions

Use the button until you find a prompt you'd like to write

Click the button to check other articles and check out our educational resources on the prompt.

Click the to start writing your prompt!

Submit your own!

Do you have a good idea about a prompt? Click on the buttton below and submit it to us. Your prompts will help the rest of the members of the community stay inspired.