What are /r/WorldAnvil's favorite Products & Services?

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Thank you! :)

Some of them I made (either fully by scratch, or with patterns from https://www.patterncooler.com/). Some of them were images taken from https://unsplash.com/ that I edited, or added gradients to.

I'm trying to use my own cover art more and more, whether it's pictures I take and edit, or if I draw them from scratch! I don't have a link to them anywhere however, it's all been personal use so far

FoundryVTT on ForgeVTT with Voice over Discord. If we have to use a Technology, might as well go all the Way and actually use the Features we can't have without it.

Fighting Hordes of Monsters is suddenly trivial to set up, Lighting, Sound-Effects, Background Music that automatically changes from Location to Location, make each evening feel like a Michael Bay Movie. Gotta play with numerous people who wouldn't usually join because they don't have the Headspace to Memorize the Rules, but everyone can click a Button.

It isn't the same as playing Face to Face, but it definitely isn't worse, just different.

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While I find Theater of the Mind completely sufficient when sitting beside each other on a Table, online, and even with Webcams, people just get distracted or are just going through the motions.

I'm a bit torn between the extreme increase in necessary preparation needed for us DMs and the fact that, once prepared, a scene is practically set up perfectly forever and can be reused as often as you want.

FWIW, it's $3 a month for the Journeyman tier of WorldAnvil, which gets you the private world/articles among a slew of other features. If that's still not worth it to you, then no worries, just stick with Free tier--but yes, your work on there will be public in that case. As you say, it's unlikely anyone accidentally finds your world--it's more a concern that someone with the link can see everything in the world, even stuff you might (As a GM, for instance) want to hide from them.

As for mapmaking--yeah. Inkarnate is great. So is Wonderdraft. Lots of good options out there, none of which will run you anywhere near $30/month. Wonderdraft is $30 forever--no subscription required.

Another thing that might help is Azgaar's Map Generator. I only started using WorldAnvil yesterday, but I found it worked well with the map section and you can fully customise it before downloading a PNG to upload.

It might help with your organisation and visualisation too, unless you already have your countries/cities mapped out.