Your world, with built-in secrets.
Convoke's lore wiki gives every NPC, location, faction, and magic item its own entry — and a knowledge level per player. Unknown. Rumored. Partial. Known. Expert. When a player clicks a name, they see exactly what their character would know. Build your world without fearing the wiki.
No credit card. 5e today, more systems coming.
The problem
Every GM who has ever built a wiki knows the fear.
You write detailed entries for the lich's backstory, the hidden temple, the faction's real motives — and then a player opens the wiki and reads all of it. There is no "this character does not know that yet."
Discord pins max out at fifty per channel. Google Docs have no access control beyond "everyone can see everything." Notion pages get buried. World Anvil is powerful but not connected to your campaign's chat, dice, or session notes.
The result: GMs stop writing things down. And campaigns lose their history.
How it works.
1. Create entries across 10+ categories
Location, NPC, History, Organization, Religion, Culture, Magic, Item, Event, Law — and more. Each entry gets rich text, images, tags, and links to related entries and NPCs.
2. Set knowledge levels per player
Five states: Unknown, Rumored, Partial, Known, Expert. Assign a default for the whole party, then override for individuals. The rogue who eavesdropped in the tavern sees more than the barbarian who was arm-wrestling outside.
3. Players see only what their character knows
When a player opens a lore entry, Convoke filters it to their knowledge level. Rumored entries show fragments. Unknown entries do not appear at all.
4. Reveal deliberately
Drop a lore reveal between sessions. Upgrade a player's knowledge level after a great investigation check. Link a reveal to a session recap so the moment is preserved.
What makes it different.
- 10+ lore categories — not a flat wiki, but a structured world with typed entries
- 5 knowledge levels per player — granular control from Unknown to Expert
- Linked to chat and recaps — mention an NPC in chat, click through to their lore entry
- Hierarchical organization — nest entries under parent entries
- AI-suggested connections (optional) — Scribe can suggest links between entries you might have missed
- Secret and public visibility — mark entries as GM-only secrets or public to all campaign members
Who it is for.
- GMs building living worlds — stop losing your worldbuilding to scattered docs and forgotten pins
- Play-by-post groups — after six months of PbP, you have a novel's worth of worldbuilding. Capture it all.
- Hybrid groups — reveal lore between sessions. The GM drops a journal page in the wiki; players who pursue it find it.
- Players who want to engage — click any NPC or location in chat and see exactly what your character knows.
Build a world your players can explore — without spoiling what is next.