Random Table Titles for Science Fiction

Here we are looking at titles for Science Fiction.

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Starting Points

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Sometimes resources for science fiction games are harder to find than for their fantasy counterparts.

So here we have things for all kinds of sci-fi.

There is also a Generators Guide for Sci-Fi

Major Titles

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Some PDFs are much larger and comprehensive.

• Dicegeeks has The Book of Random Tables: Science Fiction and The Book of Random Tables: Science Fiction 2 have many d100 tables. There is a more focused one on Sci-Fi Facilities
• The Sci-fi Bundle Collection from Grinning Skull Studios has several pdf tables for alien race names, rumours and starship names.
• Ken Wickham has something different with Grammar Fuel: Science Fiction Genre and Subgenres with 42 d100 lists for nouns, adjectives and adverbs.
• Cheaper options are the Science Fiction Codex of Lists  and Science Fiction Codex of Lists 2 from JEN Games with 300+ pages of assorted lists of varying length.
• Ennead Games has a huge bundle of 30+ titles in the Sci-Fi Collection 2019

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 Planet Generator  Planet Generator
• Kai Pütz a.k.a Gregorius21778 has 100 names for androids and other artificial beings and 100 names for starships in private hands

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.

• Ennead Games has Space & Sci-Fi Encounter Concepts using two 2d100 tables for a quick encounter. Also has SciFi objects and many other sci-fi tables
• Azukail Games has 100 Derelict and Wrecked Spaceships to Encounter, 100 Problems to Encounter on a Starship and other space-related titles
• D10 Dimensions gives us Deep Space Backwater Planetoid Generator and 100 Escape Pods - Vol 1: In Space. Plus many similar space and cyberpunk titles.
• Fishwife Games has 100 Bits of Space Junk and 100 Starship Salvage Finds and more similar tables found in their wider catalogue

Traveller Titles

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Traveller is one of the olders sci-fi rpgs and has always encouraged random generation. Some titles made for it include

• the d66 Compendium and d66 Compendium 2 from Jon Brazer Enterprises, with lots of d6 x d6 lists in each.

Final Mentions

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Last are...

• the Lifeform Maker from Ennead Games which creates alien creatures and life forms.
• Sci-fi Bar Bundle from Azukail Games
• Alien Body Plans from WMB Saltworks with first in series being Hexapods and Other Ecdysozoa
• For something different Chaos Gen (me) has Alliterative Adversaries - Non Fantasy Random Tables with comical clones, monstrous mechs and taunting time travellers.

Finishing Up

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