Every feature in Archive Arcana is built to serve one goal: keeping you and
your players immersed in the story.
Pages & Player Journals
Build rich wiki-style pages for your world's lore, characters, and locations.
Write beautiful lore, with embedded images and maps
Link characters, places, and factions and watch connections emerge
Unique styling per page with custom themes
Private player journals for personal notes
Customizable header and quotes
Category tagging and full-text search
Interactive Maps
Upload your world maps and bring them to life with markers, layers, and granular fog of war.
Pan and zoom with smooth automated rendering
Custom markers with icons, colours, and lore annotations
Fog of war, reveal regions as players explore
Multiple map layers per map (overlay, underground, routes)
Per-marker visibility: hide secret locations from curious players
Easily expandable with tile-system
Calendars & Timelines
Define fully custom calendar systems with their own months, weeks, eras and even leap years. Track history across the ages.
Fully customizable time systems: from days to seasons, whatever you need
Complex leap year rules and era-based dating
Visual timeline view spanning centuries or days: what you need
Map out big events or an NPC's schedule
Expansive recurring event logic: map a daily routine, or a passing meteor every 300 years
Event-linked pages to tie lore directly to your timeline
Session date tracking: keep track of your in-world date with easy
Easily map and compare multiple calendars
Hide true dates and times from your players
Character Sheets
System-specific character sheets in a system-agnostic engine.
Templates for D&D 5e, Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu and more
Easily adapt template systems to your homebrew
Create your own sheet definitions and play any system you want
Multiple layouts per system: make the character sheet look how you want
Customise layouts to make your very own
Import spells and item descriptions from OGL-sources easily
Campaigns & Sessions
Run multiple campaigns in a single realm. Track sessions, and keep every adventure organised
Multiple campaigns per realm: share your world across groups
Coming soon: Session logs with linked events, NPCs and locations
Campaign-specific content scoping
Keep track of party location on an embedded map
Keep track of the in-game date and time
Store memorable quotes in a shared repository
Archive Arcana is shaped by its community.
Here's what we're working on and where we're headed.
Shipped
Foundation
Pages & journalsInteractive mapsCustom calendarsVisibility controlsBasic campaign management
In Progress
Deepening the Toolkit
Character sheets & scripting enginePage relationsGuided product tours
Up Next
Public Beta
Realm exportImport from other platformsAdvanced campaign managementImproved customizationDiscord integration
Exploring
Beyond the Horizon
Bring Your Own KeysCustom DomainsPublic APIPublic art galleryPlanning whiteboardsTodo-listsCommunity template marketplace
And much more…
