Free and Pay-what-you-want Random PDFs for Fantasy

Here we are looking at fantasy free and Pay What You Want (PWYW) pdf titles on Drive Thru RPG. And many solo players love random tables!

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Starting Points

Fantasy is the most popular genre for roleplaying games, with random tables heavily used in solo games, hex crawls, Old School Revival and many other aspects.

There are also specific guides for paid PDFs and Titles for

Fantasy General - PDF/Books Guide
Fantasy Cities - PDF/Books Guide
Fantasy Sea - PDF/Books Guide
Fantasy Wilderness - PDF/Books Guide
Fantasy Dungeon - PDF/Books Guide
Fantasy Hinterlands (rural, villages, roads etc) - PDF/Books Guide
Fantasy Otherworldly / Planes - PDF/Books Guide
Fantasy Adventures and Groups - PDF/Books Guide
Plus D&D on DM's Guild and Drive Thru

July 2026: Updated titles; July 2025: Added Dark Fantasy section and new titles.

Solo Free and PWYW Titles

For solo games, all of the random tables are of interest! But some are specific for solo...

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). Also Ironsworn related is Sundered Isles, playing at sea but paid and requiring Starforged.
From Green Little Thing is NoteQuest, a pay-what-you-want fast, simple dungeon crawler
For a pay-what-you-want option, Quill from Trollish Delver Games is "A Letter-Writing Roleplaying Game for a Single Player", exploring an rpg world through writing.
From Solo Tabletop is GEMulator, a game master emulator for solo roleplaying games. The emulation is split into three phases, the campaign, the adventure and the campaign turn, simulating more of a campaign than other emulators.
Chaos Solo Engine - Fantasy Basic from Chaos Gen (me) is a lightweight d20 emulator using Yes/No, Events, Threads, Extras and Boons & Banes. Supported by several d20 inspiration tables.
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.
Pixie Cards (4th Edition) from JB Enterprises are a pack of "Universal Story Telling Cards", which can be used as an emulator. They have dice rolls, images, and symbols for inspiration.

City Free and PWYW Pdfs

For fantasy cities in backstreets, bustling taverns and stinking sewers.

Start off with a name from Pink Dice Bag Publishing with 100 Town and City Names in style of UK and UK cities.
Never Engine has two highly rated PWYW Encounter Generators, Urban (Rough) and Urban (Safe). As well as an Area/ Building and Room Generator and pwyw 300 Mundane Items and Objects.
Dicegeeks has a few free d100 lists including 100 Items found in a Fantasy Warehouse and Random Search Chart d100 - Fantasy Office.
For creating a trader of weird magic in a marketplace Gorgzu Games has The Transient Bazaar, a PWYW title.
For Buildings maps, Handiwork Games has pay-what-you-want Jon Hodgson Maps - Buildings Pack 1, a pdf of regular and VTT building maps

Dungeon Free and Pay What You Want

In ancient ruins, abandoned mines and haunted tombs more free stuff awaits!

Never Engine has different dungeon encounters with 100 Spooky Yet Mundane Dungeon Encounters.
For those chambers, Atelier Clandestin has pay-what-you-want Dungeon Room Generator, with several simple tables to give details.
Dungeon Cards Core Set #1 is a pay-what-you-want set of 24 dungeon tiles from Zadrith.
Blood Castle from Peril Planet is a (currently free) "Dungeon Blitz Adventure Game", the first in a series where you fight your way through a randomly generated dungeon.
From Raging Swan Press is a One-Pager: Ogre Cave, a simple adventure in random tables. There's a whole category of these with other options.

Hinterlands Free and PWYW Titles

For countryside, rural farmlands and everything else "civilised" outside of the city.

Never Engine has a highly rated pay-what-you-want Encounter Generators, Civilised Countryside. And also 300 Mundane Items and Objects for those villages and roads.
Iron Valley from M.Kirin is a pay-what-you-want cosy conversion of Ironsworn, where you play someone moving into a small community and starting life anew.
Dicegeeks has a free Items in a Cottage d100 title, with a d100 table of sea-based encounters. And another, pay-what-you-want title is Items in a Bandit Hideout
The One-Roll Hedge Wizard Generator by Christopher Heatherington is a free d20 table detailing a village spellcaster.
GM's Miscellany: Village Backdrops (Free Version) from Raging Swan Press is a collection of villages, detailed with random tables. (for Pathfinder but could be used for other RPGs)
Grimsbury from Ubique Publications is an English Folk Horror RPG Rulebook. Set in England from 1950s to 1990s, it's all types of rural horror.

Otherworldly Free and PWYW Titles

Realms of demons and angels, elementals, faerie, the dead and thing best left alone...

For things on other planes, using the Weird Shit Generator (Fantasy) from Never Engine probably works. PWYW.
Pink Dice Bag Publishing helps us name otherworldly creatures with 100 Celestial Names.
For more unknowable names, Azukail Games has Weird, Eldritch Name Generator.
From Raging Swan Press is One Pagers - Curio Shop, populated by d8 tables. Use either as a gateway to other realms or something to find in many a distant realm.

Sea Free and PWYW PDFs

The oceans and seas, coasts and ports welcome you for more free loot!

100 Ship Names and 50 Pirate Ship Names is a pwyw title from Pink Dice Bag Publishing for all the ships you might need to name.
Dicegeeks has a free Seafaring Encounters title, with a d100 table of sea-based encounters. And another, Pay What You Want title is Port Master’s Office - 1D100 Fantasy Search List
From the Lore Observer is pay-what-you-want 5 Customizable Blank Vintage Maps Vol. 2: Scattered Archipelagos. Blank maps to fill in!
Infinite Archipelago from Piecewise Games is a game of sea exploration, including random tables for creating island chains, ships and sea monsters.
For more encounters Tomas Eriksson has pwyw d100 Encounters at Sea. Along with d100 Things in Shipwrecks and d100 Things on a Desert Island.
Atelier Clandestine offers 100 Bottles in the Sea, to offer answers to a sea adventures trope.

Wilds Free and Pay What You Want

Forests and swamps, mountains, hexcrawling and perilous journeys in the wilds.

Manual of Hexterity by BroadSwordBard is a pay-what-you-want guide to running sandbox wilderness hex crawls! Concise a print-friendly.
Never Engine has different wilderness encounters with Encounter Generator - Wilderness.
From dicegeeks is Wetlands: Swamps, Marshes, Bogs, and Fens with advice for scenarios in these locations. Plus foraging help with d100 Medicinal Herbs and d100 Culinary Herbs and Spices.
100 Botanical Names from Pink Dice Bag Publishing grounds out some foraging goodness.
From Frugal GM is d30 Natural Potions and Poisons Generator, system neutral.

Spooky / Dark Fantasy Free and Pay What You Want

Dark fantasy titles for Halloween and spooky settings.

Dark Fantasy Places from Chaos Factory Books is a PWYW title has a collection of tables and short essays for dark villages, forests and other places.Pink Dice Bag Publishing gives us of 100 Dark and Spooky Names,
Never Engine has 100 Spooky Yet Mundane Dungeon Encounters
d100 Mundane Items (for Mörk Borg) from Petersender with 100 dark fantasy items. Plus lots of clues for other Mork Borg PWYW titles.
47 Villainous Cults, Orders and Guilds to Thwart Your Heroes from Blackstone Entertainment has organisations for your horror adventures.
Never Engine has the Pay What You Want Weird Shit Generator (Fantasy)
English Eerie: Rural Horror Storytelling Game for One Player from Trollish Delver Games is a pay-what-you-want journalling game with five scenarios.