Guide to Free and PWYW Random Table 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
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General Fantasy Free and PWYW PDFs

Fantasy not specific to a type of area or subgenre.

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.
1d50 Tiered Encounters is from Atelier Clandestin, A Pay-What-You-Want with 50 encounters that each have different levels of danger.
Micro Chapbook RPG Deluxe Core Rulebook from Micro RPG is a PWYW lightweight rpg that uses randomly generated adventures.
To figure out how adventurers came together, Blackstone Entertainment has 47 Fantasy Adventure Hooks: Bringing Your PCs Together With Style. Pay What You Want.

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, where the narrative is pushed forward by powerful vows made by the protagonist(s). And the pdf version is free.
CRGE, Conjecture Roleplaying GM Emulator from Conjecture Games is an emulator with a few different modes / levels. Also from the same publisher is UNE, the Universal NPC Emulator, which creates NPCs for you! There is also Bold, Universal PC Stories and Deeds Generator.
One Page Solo Engine from Inflatable Studios is a lightweight GM emulator with a couple of pages of notes and tables to help.
Black Streams: Solo Heroes from Sine Nomine Publishing is a lightweight solo rpg written for running classic D&D adventures for a single character.
Rocket Dungeons from LunchBox RPG is an ultra light dungeon crawler built for solo play.

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.
The Town and City Builder from James Embry is 65+ pages of advice and tables for building all sizes of settlements, split into districts with extra tables for names and encounters. Has a price but currently showing as free.
For creating a trader of weird magic in a marketplace Gorgzu Games has The Transient Bazaar, a PWYW title.

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.
d100 Dungeon v3 from Martin Knight is a little different, being a solo game where you steer a character through a dungeon.
Loot and Fortune by Matthew Jarmak is an alternate system with random tables for creating D&D 5e Treasures.
Dungeon Cards Core Set #1 is a Pay What You Want set of 24 dungeon tiles from Zadrith.
From Wintertree Software is Business Card Dungeon, a free dungeon with random a map and random tables to detail each room.

Hinterlands Free and PWYW Titles

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

Never Engine has a highly rated PWYW Encounter Generators, Civilised Countryside.
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.

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.

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
For more pirate ship names Azukail Games has a pwyw Pirate Ship Name Generator with 2 d100 tables
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.

Wilds Free and Pay What You Want

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

Never Engine has different wilderness encounters with Encounter Generator - Wilderness.
From dicegeeks are d100 Medicinal Herbs to help with foraging finds. Plus 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.
A Pay What You Want option is d100 Forest Encounters & Events from Christian Blair.And similiar titles for Arctic Encounters, Desert Encounters and Jungle Encounters.
A pay-what-you-want is Wetlands: Swamps, Marshes, Bogs, and Fens from dicegeeks, with advice for scenarios in these locations.