Random Table PDFs and Books for Fantasy
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Random Table PDFs and Books for Fantasy

Duncan Thomson

Here we are looking at pdf and book titles for Fantasy RPGs on Drive Thru RPG.

Fantasy pdfs - all | main fantasy | solo | adventurers | city | dungeon | hinterlands | otherworldly | sea | wilds

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Starting Points

titles - major | solo | worldbuilding | npcs | taverns | treasure | encounters | maps | other

This fantasy guide covers parts applicable to all kinds of fantasy terrains and settings. We're specifically not looking at D&D, which has it's own guide. But most of these titles could be used in a Fantasy Setting.

There are separate Fantasy gen titles guides for...

Fantasy covers existing worlds such as Glorantha, Middle Earth and Westeros. Your own homebrews plus dungeon delves, hex crawls and fantasy soap opera. Using tools such as Pathfinder, D&D, Savage Worlds, OSR, Ironsworn, Warhammer or whatever takes your fantasy.

There is a Fantasy Tools guide for random tables and generators.

July 2025: New tiles; July 2024: New titles, added map section. Nov 2023: New titles and encounters section

Major Titles

titles - major | solo | worldbuilding | npcs | taverns | treasure | encounters | maps | other

Some PDFs are much larger and comprehensive.

Tome of Adventure Design (revised) Great Book of Random Tables Thingonomicon Spectacular Settlements D20 Random Tables - Fantasy

Solo Titles

titles - major | solo | worldbuilding | npcs | taverns | treasure | encounters | maps | other

Solo RPGs have many Fantasy options. Enough that it has a Separate Solo Fantasy Guide. Some include...

  • The GamesMaster's Apprentice: Fantasy Deck from Larcenous Designs is an oracle and random generator in a deck of cards. With dice rolls, npc traits, event information, sights and sounds and other information.
  • Worlds Without Number from Sine Nomine Publishing is a full rpg, but also has a free edition and many random tables to detail your world.
  • Ironsworn from Shawn Tomkin is one of the best known solo games (and free! in pdf form), where the narrative is pushed forward by powerful vows made by the protagonist(s).
  • Five Leagues from the Borderlands from Mophidius is a solo miniatures game where your warband explores a fantasy world.
  • 2d6 Dungeon from DR Games is a solo dungeon crawler with a straight-forward 2d6 system inspired by Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Nethack and other delving games.

1001 Encounter Generator - Fantasy Wilderness 1001 Encounter Generator - Fantasy Wilderness Ironsworn Five Leagues from the Borderlands 2d6 Dungeon - A Solo Dungeon Crawler

World Building

titles - major | solo | worldbuilding | npcs | taverns | treasure | encounters | maps | other

Some GM's love worldbuilding in advance, and others let it develop through gameplay, or it fits and bursts. Related to the Maps section.

Realm Fables: World Generator Castle Oldskull - Game World Generator Deluxe 47 Gods and Heroes for Your Campaign World Pendulum: A World-building Assistant Tome of World Building

NPCs

titles - major | solo | worldbuilding | npcs | taverns | treasure | encounters | maps | other

NPCs are the allies, friends, rivals and foes of the characters, to be hated and loved.

Swift NPC Builder 100 NPCs You Might Meet At The Tavern Masks - 1000 Memorable NPCs Concept Cards - Plot Hooks

Taverns and Inns

titles - major | solo | worldbuilding | npcs | taverns | treasure | encounters | maps | other

Taverns and inns are a big part of fantasy, as places to relax or find new companions.

Tavern Tables - The Game Master's Tavern Builder Handbook 100 Random Taverns Fantasy Inn and Cuisine Generator 100 Fantasy Beverages for all Fantasy RPGs 60 Tavern Situations

Treasure and Items

titles - major | solo | worldbuilding | npcs | taverns | treasure | encounters | maps | other

Treasures are why some adventurers are out there, representing thing of value, curious trinkets and enchanted items.

Infinite Trinkets The Gemerator 100 Less Than Useful Books to Find on a Fantasy Bookshelf 100 Oddities for a Treasure Hoard 47 System-neutral Artifacts and Magial Items for Your Campaigns

Encounters and Quests

titles - major | solo | worldbuilding | npcs | taverns | treasure | encounters | maps | other

Things that don't fit in the other categories.

Untold Encounters of the Random Kind Sidequest Decks: Monster Hunts 100 Adventure Hooks Concept Cards - Plot Hooks

Maps

titles - major | solo | worldbuilding | npcs | taverns | treasure | encounters | maps | other

Related to World Building, these are titles with maps or creating maps

  • Atelier Clandestin has a Sandbox Generator with hex maps and tables for filling them with settlements, npcs, dungeons and other pieces of interest. 100 Campaign Hooks and 50 High Fantasy Random Events are also good for ideas.
  • For kingdom building using maps, Alexey Aparin has Pocket Lands: Kingdom, a deck of 68 minimap cards.
  • From Crimson Scholar Press, the Terrain Randomizer generates a tactical map for a fight scene
  • From Philip Reed Games is Hex Dek, Systemless Fantasy RPG Hexcrawl Cards with a deck of 50 double-sided cards, containing hexes, short description, extra info and random encounter table.

Sandbox Generator Pocket Lands: Kingdom The Terrain Randomizer Hex Dek

Other Titles

titles - major | solo | worldbuilding | npcs | taverns | treasure | encounters | maps | other

Things that don't fit in the other categories.

  • At 300 pages of tables for a dollar (last time I checked), the Fantasy Tome of Lists from JEN Games. It's tables are hit and miss. There is also a Fantasy Tome of Lists 2.
  • 100 Riddles for Fantasy from Grinning Skull Studios
  • GM Gems from Goodman Games is System Neutral and contains 80 pages of d100 random tables split into three broad sections. These are The Urban Experience, Getting There is Half the Fun and The Dungeon
  • The Monster Overhaul from Skerples made for OSR monsters, a practical bestiary of advice and random tables (and monsters).
  • Although Knave 2e from Questing Beast Games is a fantasy RPG, it's packed with d100 tables for dungeons, wilderness, cities and characters.

Fantasy Tome of Lists 100 Riddles for Fantasy GM Gems The Monster Overhaul Knave Second Edition

Finishing Up

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