Community Worlds

Community Worlds lets players publish their worlds for others to browse, clone, and play. You can explore worlds built by other creators — complete with NPCs, settlements, maps, quests, and lorebooks — and start playing immediately.

Community worlds browsing

Browsing

Community Worlds appear on the Dashboard on the right side, below your NPC list. Anyone can browse — no account required.

Each world card shows the cover image, title, creator handle, a short description, character previews (up to 3 NPC portraits), play count, and like count.

Click a card to open a preview with the full description, genre, tags, and a character roster showing every NPC's portrait, name, occupation, and description. From the preview, you can like the world or start playing.

Use View all to see every published world. Sort by Most Played or Most Recent.

World preview

Playing a Community World

Click Play on any community world card (or Play This World in the preview) to clone it into your account. This creates a full copy — the original creator's world is unaffected.

Your clone includes everything: the map, settlements, buildings, NPCs, enemies, quests, regions, districts, and optionally the creator's lorebook entries. NPC dispositions reset to Neutral so you start fresh.

Community world clones are marked with a Community World badge on your Dashboard.

You can't re-publish a cloned world.

Publishing Your World

To share a world you've built:

  1. On the Dashboard, click the ... menu on your world card and select Publish.
  2. First time only: Create a public creator handle (3–24 characters, letters/numbers/underscores). This is your public identity on community world cards.
  3. Fill in the details:
    • Public Title — the name players will see (max 100 characters)
    • Description — what makes your world interesting (max 500 characters)
    • Tags — pick up to 5 (Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Modern, Historical, Horror, Post-Apocalyptic, Urban, Rural, Political, Cozy, Dark, Whimsical)
    • Include lorebook entries — on by default. Players who clone your world get your custom lore.
  4. Review the disclaimer confirming original content and no NSFW/copyrighted material.
  5. Submit. The RPBuddy team reviews submissions before they go live.

Publish form

Managing Your Publications

Open your Account (top-right avatar) to see My Published Worlds. Each listing shows the title, status (approved, pending, or rejected), and play count.

You can Edit the title and description of published worlds, or Remove a publication to take it down. Rejected submissions include review notes explaining why.

Likes

Click the heart icon on any community world card or preview to like it. Likes are public and help surface popular worlds. You need to be logged in to like a world.