World Building Template
Your world isn’t forty documents. It’s one map you can’t currently see.
Worldbuilding fails the same way every time: not from a lack of detail, but from detail nobody can find. The magic system contradicts chapter nine, the map disagrees with the timeline, and the file with the name conventions is in a folder you last opened in March. Skrib puts the whole world on one infinite Board, connected, searchable, and sitting next to the manuscript that has to obey it.
What’s in the world building template
Thirteen cards, connected on your Board, each asking what the world actually needs to be consistent.
• Core Concept: The one line that makes this world different from the one outside your window.
• Geography & Map: Regions, borders, climate and distance - with your map image on the Board.
• History & Timeline: The events that still shape the present, and the ones everyone has agreed to forget.
• Factions & Politics: Who holds power, who wants it, and what they’re each prepared to do.
• Magic or Technology System: Rules, limits and costs. Especially costs - a system without a price has no drama in it.
• Religion & Belief: What people worship, what they fear, and what they’re wrong about.
• Culture & Daily Life: Food, work, ritual and manners - the texture that makes a world feel inhabited.
• Language & Naming: Conventions that keep your names sounding like they come from the same place.
• Economy & Resources: What’s scarce, what’s traded, and who profits.
• Species & Creatures: Who else lives here and how they’re regarded.
• Locations: Cities, landmarks and rooms, linked to the scenes set in them.
• Canon Rules: The short list of things that are simply true, so you stop relitigating them.
• Contradiction Log: What you’ve broken and haven’t fixed yet.
Why build your world in Skrib?
Forty documents is a filing system. A Board is a world.
• See the Connections: Draw the links between a faction, a location and the war that put them there. Relationships are visible, not remembered.
• Search Your Own Canon: Named that river in chapter two? Find it in seconds from the Library instead of in an editorial note.
• The World Sits Beside the Book: Open the Draft and the bible is one click away - no tab switching, no second app.
• Built for Series: Sequels, spin-offs and hundred-installment serials stay consistent because the canon doesn’t live in your head.
• Maps and References Upload: Drop images, maps, mood boards and research straight onto the Board where they belong.
• It Stays Yours: We don’t scrape it, sell it, or train AI on it. The world you invented is yours. Pair this with the Character Board and your world stops being background and starts being pressure on the people in it.
Who is this world building template for?
• Fantasy and Science Fiction Novelists building a setting that has to survive a trilogy.
• Game Writers keeping canon straight across branching paths, quests and NPCs.
• Tabletop Game Masters running long campaigns with a world that has to answer questions live.
• TV and Screen Writers assembling a series bible for a room or a pitch.
• Fan Writers mapping established canon before adding to it.
• Comics and Graphic Novel Writers working with an artist who needs the world to be specific.
Build the world once, properly
Drop the template on your Board, start with the one thing you’re sure about, and let the rest connect to it.
