Free Digital Random Tables and Titles for Sci-fi, Horror and Non-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

This is a companion to a Free Fantasy Titles Guide.

There are many RPG games beyond fantasy, with Sci-Fi covering lots of ground. Joined by Horror, Cyberpunk, Post-Apocalyptic, Modern and Space/Science Fantasy for all kinds of tech, spooky, and genre-blending gaming.

There are also specific guides for paid PDFs and Titles for

Science Fiction - PDF/Books Guide
Horror - PDF/Books Guide
Cyberpunk - PDF/Books Guide
Post-Apocalyptic - PDF/Books Guide
Modern - PDF/Books Guide
Space/Science Fantasy - PDF/Books Guide

Nov 2025: Updated titles

Science Fiction Free and PWYW PDFs

Science fiction, which could be space pirates, alien hunting or futuristic drama.

Although an RPG, Stars Without Number (revised, free version) from Sine Nomine Publishing also has many free tables worth looking at.
Never Engine has a Planet Generator, with several tables crammed into a one page format.
To enhance Starforged, Eric Bright has Starsmith: Expanded Oracles, a huge pay-what-you-want supplement expanding tables from the original game.
Mysterious Passenger - Space Opera Support #3 from Polgarus Games has six adventure seeds for a passenger who comes on board your spaceship.
Mothership: Player's Survival Guide from Tuesday Knight Games has a pay-what-you-want player's guide for the Mothership RPGs. Lots of random tables to create your character.

Solo Free and PWYW Titles

For solo games outside of fantasy, there are a few options (including from the genre-specific titles in other sections)

One Page Solo Engine from Inflatable Studios is a lightweight GM emulator with a couple of pages of notes and tables to help.
The Encounter Building Oracle Deck is a pay-what-you-want option from Eric Bright, with each card (of a 100-card deck) containing dice-rolls, oracle answers, events, objects and other information. There is also Encounter Building Cards: Locations,
UNE, the Universal NPC Emulator from Conjecture Games creates NPCs for you! There is also Bold, Universal PC Stories and Deeds Generator. Also from them is CRGE, Conjecture Roleplaying GM Emulator, an emulator with a few different modes / levels.
For a free solo adventure using Call of Cthulu, Chaosium has Alone Against the Flames, set in the 1920s.
For a pay-what-you-want journaling game, Quill Noir from Savage AfterWorld is a supplement for the PWYW Quill solo game, set in the 20th century.

Horror Free and Pay What You Want

In haunted mansions, abandoned temples and cursed forests, more free stuff lurks!

For cthulu-related monsters try Lovecraftian Title Generator from Azukail Games, with 3 tables to combine
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.
English Eerie: Rural Horror Storytelling Game for One Player from Trollish Delver Games is a pay-what-you-want journalling game with five scenarios

Cyberpunk Free and PWYW Pdfs

For cyberpunk games of megacorporations, cybernetic implants and dystopian near-futures.

dicegeeks has Megacity: Lagos - A System Agnostic Cyberpunk Resource. And also Popular American Names for Near Future Settings with eight d100 tables
Augmented Reality Plus from Geist Hack Games has grids for city blocks and tables for contacts and gig economies
D-oom Products has adventures covered with the Cyberpunk Adventure Generator
Fishwife Games has 100 Overheard Cyber City Chatter, giving rumours for your players...PWYW

Post-Apocalyptic Free and PWYW Titles

To help survive whatever horror inflicted devastation

Failed Fallout Shelters from Kai Pütz a.k.a Gregorius21778 is pay-what-you-want and has random tables for what you find in a ruined fallout shelter.
Ashes Without Number: Free Edition from Sine Nomine Publishing is an old school rpg dedicated to post-apocalyptic settings. The free edition has most of the tables and rules of the full version.
49 Lists for Atopic Punk 2160 from Felbrigg Herriot fits the theme, with 49-themed lists for post-apocalpyse games.,
Post Apocalyptic Items d100 from dicegeeks contains junk found in the ruins of civilisations. (last time I checked this was also free)
30 Useless Mutations from Per Aspera Games has a print version.

Modern Free and PWYW Titles

For the broad spectrum of "modern", from 80's espionage to modern superheroes.

Never Engine has a pwyw Espionage Mission Generator with 1 page, and another Military Mission Generator.
JV Random Tables: Cyberpunk and Modern from JeansenVaars has two pages of d20 tables for locations and characters.
For UK and US style city names, Pink Dice Bag Publishing has 100 Town and City Names.
For a certain atmosphere, try 100 B-Movies playing at the Movie Theatre for all Modern RPGs from Grinning Skull Studios. Or 100 Dusty Paperbacks on an Abandoned Bookshelf.
Atelier Clandestin has 100 Envelope Contents to help with what's in mysterious letters or documents. And a similar vibe from 50 Intriguing Messages.

Science/Space Fantasy Free and PWYW PDFs

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

From Direbane Publishing is City Running Troika!, a setting a random tables for delving into and adventuring in a space fantasy city, for the game Troika! (detailed below)
The Ultraviolet Grasslands - Free Introduction from Hydra Cooperative is a rules-light rpg about journeying across a weird dying space-fantasy setting. Supported by random tables.
Electric Bastionland Free Edition from Bastionland Press is a Space-Fantasy game with an old-school feel where you have a failed career and colossal debt. This is the cut-down free version of the game.
Vaults of Vaarn from Graculus Droog is a pay-what-you-want RPG set on a wasteland world. With plenty or random tables for science-fantasy games