Worldbuilding Tools

Notebook is a set of tools for writers, game designers, and roleplayers to create magnificent universes — and everything within them.

Persona is a character creation and organization app for writers. What makes the app unique is its sorting system: the user can match each character with an archetype in order to compare multiple characters at once to see how they might interact.

Worldspinner makes it easy to create an entire fantasy world in just a few minutes. See every continent, island, sea, forest, desert, and nation. Thousands of cities and points of interest add depth to the world.

Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator (FMG) is a free online tool which produces procedurally generated and highly customizable fantasy maps. You can just use auto-generated maps or create your own world from scratch.

Wonderdraft is an intuitive yet powerful fantasy map creation tool for 64-bit Windows 10, Linux, and MacOSX.

Inkarnate is an all-in-one fantasy mapmaking platform with a free version and a huge library of assets. With Inkarnate, one can create world and region maps, city and village maps, battlemaps and interiors, as well as scenery maps.

Powerful, fast and intuitive map-making tool to create beautiful and highly detailed maps for tabletop games, campaigns and more.

donjon.bin.sh is a freely accessible, online collection of random generators and other tools for pen-and-paper role-playing games. The collection provides a comprehensive range of advanced generators for creating names, demographics, maps, adventures and even entire worlds.

Eigengrau's Essential Establishment Generator is a tabletop procedural generation tool for towns, NPCs and much more. It creates paragraphs of text suitable to be read directly to players during a game.

Map-making software for creating tactical-scale top-down battlemaps for RPGs, with a large library of ready-to-use mapping content Add-Ons (including 50 free ones!). Also works with your own artwork/bitmaps, via drag-and-drop.

There are over 1200 name generators, as well as many description generators, guides and various tools you might find helpful.

A site of generators to randomly produce concepts, characters, and descriptions for stories, role-playing games, and art, as well as have fun and alleviate creative blocks.

Easily create and share reference sheets and art galleries for all your characters; perfect for artists, world builders, and role players.

YARPS is a smart web application for creating and managing vivid worlds, planning and documenting your stories, enhancing your role-playing with portraits, interactive maps and music and for trading RPG content.

Campfire Pro is a pre-writing software for writers. Its features include character sheets, an endless narrative timeline, and map support for world building.

Offers things like writing tips, roleplaying, generators, prompts to inspire writers and artists.

Welcome to RanGen, a space that offers writing prompts and inspirational bursts creators of all shapes and sizes. I'm your host, Ameronis, and I'll be happy to take you on a wonderful, magical journey with the help of my many Gens.

Scabard is a rules neutral RPG campaign manager and planner. We have campaigns for D&D (various versions), Pathfinder, Traveller, Savage Worlds, Warhammer, and a host of others.

Write articles to detail and keep track of everything in your world! Choose from over 25 templates designed to inspire you with prompts and deepen your worldbuilding! Embed your maps, and include images, music and sound effects, and even secrets and spoiler markers, for an...

Realm Works is a database software and worldbuilding tool for roleplaying games.