Random Table PDFs for Fantasy Hinterlands and Villages

Here we are looking at pdf and book titles for Fantasy farmland, hinterlands and villages and other rural environments on Drive Thru RPG.

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Starting Points

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Fantasy Hinterlands, covering rural backwaters, frontier villages, patrolled roads, and sprawling farmland. Basically fantasy civilisation which isn't a city.

Much of the hinterlands farming takes place in gentle Plains or in hills

For hinterlands related tools there's a Generator's Guide to Fantasy Hinterlands. Finally for more PDF titles try Random Table Titles for Fantasy.

July 2025: Added new titles; July 2024: Added solo section and new titles. Nov 2023: Added more titles.

Major Titles

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Some PDFs are much larger and comprehensive.

Realm Fables: Roadside Events from Shielddice Studios has encounters for few terrains supported by random tables.
For many d100 tables, dicegeeks has The Book of Random Tables: Festivals and Fairs.
Village Modular Map-Tiles from Black Scrolls Games is a collection of 70 double-sided tiles for fields, cottages and other village features.
For more road goodness, Skirmisher Publishing has 100 Oddities for a Pilgrimage Trail
Edge of the Wilds from True Mask Games has 100+ scenarios for rural adventures in 54 pages

Solo Titles

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Solo games set in a rural location tend to have a slower pace to them that other environments.

In Fox Curio's Floating Bookshop from LostWaysClub you are journalling as a bookseller traveling up and down the river, dealing with customers, leaks and insects, going fishing, exploring and having fun.
The Broken Cask from Shoreless Skies Publishing lets you run a tavern or fantasy pub, with staff and rules for dealing with all kind of events and mishaps for your establishment.
For hinterlands solo play, Trollish Delver Games has English Eerie: Rural Horror Storytelling Game for One Player, a pay-what-you-want journaling experience.
At the edge of the hinterlands, you can use Sidequest Decks: Frontier Town Quests from Inkwell Ideas, a deck of 72 cards with adventure ideas.
From Artemis Games are Concept Cards - Rural Locations, a set of 55 cards giving adventure locations with terrain, inhabitants, a description and other details.
Over at Itch.io, are two more titles, Village Witch by Eliot Crow for solo journaling about a witch trying to find a home. And Apothecaria by BlackwellWriter, a solo potion making RPG.

Free and Pay What You Want Options

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If you like pdfs and random tables then there are some options. And where you find one you might find more...

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.

Smaller Titles

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To find more related titles by a particular publisher the "Customers Who Bought This Title also Purchased" bar at the bottom of product description is useful.

Fantastical Ideas for Rural Encounters has 60 detailed encounters for from John Paget Games
If you need rumours then 100 Rumours to Hear in a Town or Village from Azukail Games has ones with enough detail to interest character. Plus 100 Merchants to Encounter, 100 Random Bandits to Meet and 100 Random Encounters for on the Road or in the Wilderness.
For encounters anywhere in the hinterlands, Grinning Skull Studios has 100 Out of Town Encounters for All Fantasy RPGs, part of "Grims Amazing d100 tables" series.
The Village Generator for Dungeon Scum and other games has tables for the village and its inhabitants, but also for looming threats and it's place in the world. From Nordic Weasel Games
Atelier Clandestin hasa Village Generator (places), and a A Villager Generator (NPCs) , both with multiple tables to detail your fantasy villages. And in same theme is the Castle Generator!

Other Titles

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Things that don't fit in the other categories.

Also on maps, Fishwife Games has Woodrum's Curious Collection of Village Map Details, a d100 table of fleshed out localities in a village.
1d100 Plus Traveling Events from Lore Wise Games has 1d100 events for hinterlands or wilderness, plus 10+ further d20 tables
For landmarks in the hinterlands or wilds, Azukail Games has 100 Landmarks for a Fantasy Setting. Plus 100 Low Fantasy Bandits to use along with 100 Low Fantasy Merchants.
Fantasy Roads from DramaScape has full colour maps with roads for a few terrains
the Fantasy Hinterlands Tables Bundle from Chaos Gen (me!) has a number of titles of random tables for rural and related environments.