Random Tables PDFs for Otherworldly and Planar Adventures

Here we are looking at pdf and book titles for other planes and otherworldy adventures on Drive Thru RPG.

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Starting Points

The realms beyond the one of mortals vary from setting to setting. Pits inhabited by demons or other fiends, the underworld where the dead go, dream realms inhabited by fey creatures, eternal storms of elemental energy and the realms of the gods. And beyond that are realms that make no sense, alternate realities or weird places that operate in rules beyond comprehension.

Adventures set in these realms tend to be at a higher power level, as characters face powerful creatures and godlike beings, and must survive these very realms too.

Also of interest will be the Random Table Titles for Fantasy.

May 2026: Updated titles, added gens and maps; Sept 2024: Added titles. Jan 2024: Added more titles.

Major Titles

Some PDFs are much larger and comprehensive.

Castle Oldskull - 333 Realms of Entropy from Kent David Kelly is filled with tables for creating realms by a dominant terrain, with some examples of these planes.
For other planes the Plane Maker from Ennead Games makes total sense. Filled with tables about the plane, what inhabiteds it and how to get there. Depending on your planar adventures, Deities and Pantheons may also be of interest.
A Rough Guide to the Pit from Arion Games details demonic realms for Fighting Fantasy, but easily used in other games. It has tables for creating demonic planes and encounter tables.
Spectre Press has a supplement with tables for small planes of existence in RPGPundit Presents #97: Pocket Planes. And a similar title is #95: Alternate Material Planes
For places affected by magic them 1d100 Plus Magic Events from Lore Wise Games will give you some ideas.

Free and Pay What You Want Options

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

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.
On Itch.io by Huffa is Between the Skies, with many tables for creating strange worlds and populating them.

Smaller Titles

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.

Out there, there will be demons somewhere, so Piecewise Games has the Demon Generator with 32 pages of tables covering Fire, Filth, Pristine, Curse, Storm, Deep, Grave and Azoic elements.
Pen and Screen Creations has 100 Demands from a Fey, inspiring encounters in Faerie Courts or Dream Realms.
Often things are weird beyond the mortal realm, so 100 Strange Magical Items for all fantasy RPGs from Grinning Skull Studios can help capture this.
For more demons, Black Falcon Games has D-Percent - 100 Ancient Demon Names. Which goes with 100 Medieval Demon Names.
For whimsical planes, Atelier Clandestin has 100 Worlds of Wonder Situations with maps and situations for 5 different realms. Which goes hand-in-hand with 200 High Fantasy Odd Situations.
The Strange Monster Generator from TLHP Games has d20 tables to fill out and create bizarre, unique and alien lifeforms.

Other Titles

Things that don't fit in the other categories.

100 Low Fantasy Curses from Atelier Clandestin can help with the many ways characters can be cursed in other realms.
For D&D Oliver Darkshire has written The Infinite Staircase on DM's Guild, covering the planes with information and tables.
The Map Feature Name Elemental Planes from Ennead Games is quite specific, covering area names with two d100 tables for each of Air, Earth, Fire and Water. There is also Creature Description Generator - Demonic Beings.
A deck of cards for Dragons, Undead and Outsiders. Creature Decks: More Dragons, Undead & Outsiders (Ecologies/System Neutral) from Inkwell Ideas has ideas for monsters without stats.
The Metamorphica Revised from Chthonstone Games has random mutation tables with hundreds of tables for creatures beyond the normal.

Otherworldly Maps

There aren't many obvious map tools for Otherworldly Fantasy. What we do have is...

For cave and other underground planes there's a Dungeon Maps Guide. Gozzys Cave Map Generator lets you create cave realms, including ones of ice.

For watery themed realms there's a Sea Maps Guide. The most watery of these is probably also has Perilous Shores by Watabou.

To make your own realms, Hextml can create a random map (using the Generate button in settings). It also lets you set hexes to terrains, symbols, colours, dungeon and your own images, giving enough variety to create a map for an otherworldly place.

PDF options include...

Random Generators

There are fewer random generators for otherworldly fantasy compared to others, but they do exist.

Starting with otherworldly realms, there's Realm Descriptions at Fantasy Name Generators. For details the site has description generators for Angels, Demons, Magic Sources and name generators for Angels, Demons, Elementals, Gods, Fairies, and Realms

Then donjon has a Worlds and Planes Generator including items such as "Resu: An abyssal plane of jagged peaks, poisoned lakes, and rusting battlefields. The plane is primarily populated by demons and trolls."

The Outer Plane generator at Seventh Sanctum has these...

Seven Ancestral Depths of Balance. Far Depths. Seventh Titanic

And for weird magical effects there is also the Magic Phenomena at 7th Sanctum.

Magic symbols feature in supernatural and planar travel, so there is a Sigil Generator from watabou, who also has a basic Rune Generator. And ciacodavi has a Magic Circle generator with arcane patterns. Lastly the Sigil Engine will create a sigil depending on what you enter.

At Chaos Gen (mine) there's a slowly growing number of Generators for Otherwordly Fantasy.

At Reddit u/Benzact has a d100 list of Weird Tales Prompts such as "A time loop traps the protagonist in a repeating cycle of events." and "An otherworldly entity communicates through cryptic messages in dreams."

DnD Speak has Dreams that Mean Nothing and 100 Deities and their Domains

Faerie Realms

For fairy realms, start with a Fairy Generator at springhole.net. Chaos Gen (my site) has some Faerie-themed Generators

Hags are a malevolent type of supernatural creature associated with the faerie realm. Tools include names, items in a hag lair and a full on hag generator

Finishing Up

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