The Only Character Builder You Need
Craft characters that will live on in readers’ minds long after the final page has turned with Campfire’s suite of tools designed to be the ultimate character-building aid.
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Create a Blueprint for Your Characters
As Campfire’s most popular module, Characters helps you write believable, relatable, and consistently crafted characters that will resonate with your readers. Make your first 10 characters free.
Watch Your Characters Grow Over Time
Characters are not static; they grow and change as they navigate the ups and downs of your narrative. Track and visualize the evolution of each character's unique journey from the first act to the last with the Arcs Module.
Define Every Kind of Relationship
Whether your characters are forging friendships or making mortal enemies, forming crews or finding love, the Relationships Module will help you map their intricate network of relationships and family trees so you never get confused.
Keep Character Notes at Your Fingertips
Campfire’s tools are interconnected—Keep your focus and reference notes without leaving your manuscript by using features like tags and the Notes sidebar for quick access to every relevant detail.
Dress Your Characters In the Details
Choose from more than 100 character attributes and seven panel types to build your character sheets and bring your fictional friends to life in a tangible way.
Basic Information
Cover your bases with attributes such as character birthdays, hometowns, spoken languages, gender identities, and beliefs!
Personality Profiles
Fundamentally define who your characters are with archetypes, traits, and even personality profiles like the Enneagram or MBTI.
Physical Attributes
Keep basic descriptions like hair or eye color on hand, and note each character’s style of dress—every detail tells a story of its own.
Careers & Hobbies
From job roles, education, and income to special skills and personal interests, build out your characters’ resumes for added perspective.
Friends & Family
Keep track of your characters’ relationships with eachother, their pets and familiars, and even their Love Languages!
Character Abilities
Record fighting styles and weapons of choice, magical or otherwise, right down to your character’s dominant hand.
Game Stats
Game attributes and Stats panels help you keep track of ability scores, hit points, character inventories, level progression, and more.
Aliases
Use aliases to refer to your characters by various names throughout your Campfire profile, and stay connected to your notes.
Custom Templates
Start creating your characters instantly with our Default Character Template, or design your own with a range of panel types to choose from.
Make Your Characters Unforgettable
Tell Their Origin Story
Every interesting character should have an equally interesting backstory. Campfire helps you create that, and then some.
Keep Things Consistent
A character’s actions have to make sense, and basic info shouldn’t change. With seamless access to your character profiles, you’ll never mix up the details again.
Add Character Art
Remembering how characters look is one of the biggest struggles we’ve heard from readers! Add custom portraits & aesthetic mood boards to leave a lasting impression.
Eighteen Modules
Campfire is made up of modules designed to help you plan, plot, and publish everything from your novel and character sheets to story outlines and interactive maps.
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Customize Everything
Campfire modules are built on panels that you can move, resize, and modify to fit various information or images for your story. Try two of them below!
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What Our Community is Saying
I love Campfire! It has kept me way more organised when writing and it has helped me greatly. I used to have many tabs open to keep track of all my characters and their details but now I can do it all on one website. Thank you Campfire!
I absolutely love Campfire for its seamless integration of storytelling and worldbuilding… The ability to craft intricate story arcs, develop compelling characters, and design intricate worlds with ease is a game-changer for any aspiring writer or storyteller.
Campfire's characters module has completely changed how I organize character information. I don't have to dig through tons of docs to find information and it makes it so much easier to fact-check myself while I'm writing.
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