Arcane Circle vs World Anvil

Arcane Circle is a web platform for finding, joining, organizing, crafting, and monetizing tabletop roleplaying adventures. Players filter listings by schedule and can join one-shots, limited series, or ongoing campaigns across major systems. Game Masters create games, manage bookings, schedules, payments, players, and sessions, and receive reviews that build a reputation. Each created game gets a campaign wiki connecting characters, factions, places, and lore. The virtual tabletop combines dice, maps, fog of war, and theater-of-the-mind play in one window. Character sheets provide guided builders for supported systems and freeform sheets for others; character art can become a VTT token. Listings identify required software, which may include Roll20, video calls, or Discord. Game Masters set listing prices, with players charged at session start. Stripe handles payments, and the service says it does not store card details. Plans start at $2.99/mo.

World Anvil is a browser-based set of tools for creating, organizing and storing settings for games, novels and comics. Its wiki supports linked articles, categories, tags and search across a world. Interactive maps connect locations to articles, while timelines track events across eras or parallel histories. Campaign tools provide a digital GM screen, statblocks, NPC creation, character sheets and session reports connected with campaign notes. Online novel-writing software works with the wiki, allowing setting details to be referenced and edited while drafting. Listed integrations include Discord, Google Analytics and Patreon links. Private material is visible only to the user and authorized collaborators, and autosaved work is backed up across multiple servers and in the cloud. World Anvil requires an internet connection; mobile use is through an optimized browser, with no mobile app. The Freeman plan allows two worlds, 42 articles and 100 MB storage.