Tools, Titles and Tables for Space Fantasy and Science Fantasy

Here we are looking at tools, tables and titles for Science Fantasy and Space Fantasy. And Star Wars.

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Starting Points

Games such as Starfinder, Troika, Electric Bastionland and even Star Wars are space fantasy. A little bit of everything, in space. And Spelljammer!

Space Fantasy and Science Fantasy are relatively rare among the genres for Roleplaying Games. A mix of fantasy and science fiction elements.

For sci-fi related tools there's a guide for sci-fi. Finally for more PDF titles try Random Table Titles for Fantasy.

Aug 2025: added tools and star wars sections; Nov 2024: new titles and shuffled titles around; April 2024: added new titles;

Major Titles

Some PDFs are much larger and comprehensive.

dicegeeks has The Book of Random Tables: Fantasy Space, with 25 d100 tables to get you started.
For a deck of short adventures, Sidequest Decks: Science Fantasy from Inkwell Ideas has 50+ cards that will help you out.
Ken Wickham has something different with Grammar Fuel: Genres giving 44 d100 lists of nouns, adjectives and adverbs for a number of genres useful to Space Fantasy. These include fantasy, sci-fi, war, mystery, superhero and horror..
Troika from Melsonian Arts Council is a perfect example of quirky space fantasy. It's a simple system for trying Space Fantasy RPGs. It uses random tables for character concept / profession, spells, monster mien, and anywhere else it matters. It's a Rand Roll favourite.
Stars Without Number from Sine Nomine Publishing is a free sci-fi RPG, which also has many pages or random tables. It also has an expanded paid version. And a fantasy version in Worlds Without Number. Between the two there is lots of inspiration for science fantasy games.

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...

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

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.

the Lifeform Maker from Ennead Games which creates alien creatures and life forms. And there is also Quick Generator Sci-Magic Classes to give ideas for your science-fantasy games. And Quick Generator - MagicTech Concept.
The Baroque Science Fantasy God Generator from Gorgzu Games has 10+ tables for creating a deity of space fantasy.
Space Fantasy Ruins from ChaosGen (me) has 6 tables for creating quick space ruins. And 100 Space Fantasy Trinkets for interesting bits for characters and NPCs, from a growing section of Science Fantasy titles.
From Doppelganger Publishing, 100 Artifacts to Uncover in a Space Opera should be able to give you options to cover all kinds of space and science-fantasy adventures.
The Space Opera Adventure Generator from Wentworth Games is a simple generator for strange space fantasy adventures.

Spelljammer

Although D&D, spelljammer is a strange combination of fantasy in space, with primitive firearms, galleons flying to asteroids and comets trying to murder people. Revived for fifth edition! And here are some titles from DM's Guild.

Spelljammer: Encounters in Wildspace by Jesse Kettunen has 50+ encounters for helping out your spelljammer games, brought together by a few simple encounter tables. There is also Spelljammer: Encounters on the Rock of Bral.
From several authors is Spelljammer Trinkets & Treasures, a list of magic items and minor doodads for your D&D in space. With random tables to select them.
The Spelljammer: Wildspace System Generator by Ben Fogle is a Pay What You Want title with tables for building a wildspace system from scratch.
Spelljammer Encounter Tables by Duncan Thomson (me) has random tables by terrain, ships and creature groups. There's also Spelljammer Trinkets and Creation Tables.
Spelljammer: 100 Random Spacial and Astral Encounters by Andrew James Woodyard has random encounters designed for an Astral Sea based campaign.

Other Titles

Things that don't fit in the other categories.

From Bastionland Press is Electric Bastionland, an RPG with an old school feel with a healthy dose of random tables in chargen. You have a failed career and colossal debt...
For an rpg of "Star & Sorcery" space opera with an OSR feel, there is Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells from Old Skull Publishing. With a heavy dose of random tables to help things along.
Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City from WTF Studio is an rpg, half-setting, half-adventure and half epic trip. Quirky, generative and unique.
Get it at Sutlers from Melsonian Arts Council is a setting / adventure for Troika, powered by random tables. Players take on strange jobs in a quirky department store. Easily adapted to other games
Ray Guns and Ruins from Skirmisher Publishing is a dual-statted sourcebook for ray guns and other strange tech added to a campaign.

Space Fantasy Tools

Start with Shrike Glimpses - Skyship Journey Tapestries.

Starfinder has Starfinder Tools for all things Starfinder providing a broad range of generators for helping your space fantasy.

Other mentions for

Alien Race Generator at 7th Sanctum
There is a decent robot generator from Springhole.net
While donjon has a Worlds and Planes Generator for strange environments

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.

Also needs filling out, but mentions for

Alien Race Generator at 7th Sanctum
Fantasy Crossbreed Generator at 7th Sanctum
an alien restaurant menu at Obscure Hub
Portals are a mainstay of travel between realms, and there is a generator for Portals at Chaotic Shiny.
For weird magical effects there is also the Magic Phenomena at 7th Sanctum.
I've got Space Fantasy Ruins at Chaos Gen
Fantasy Name Generators has names for Steampunk, Mad Scientists, Apocalypse/Mutant Nicknames, and several Starfinder Name Gens.

Star Wars Tools

Star Wars is a particular type of Space Fantasy, with the magic of the Force.

For Star Wars Names, Beyond "R2-D2", "Rey" and "Chewbacca" find a number of names by species or an even wider selection.

Maybe you prefer a single generator covering all the angles or names from The Old Republic.

f you want to expand a character beyond a name then I must mention the SW Multi Gen tool. It has the best Star Wars NPC (Non-Player Character) generator I've found so far and can also create weapons and quests (where it's mentioned twice more below).

You may prefer to pick NPCs from a chart.

The SW Multi Gen tool can do quests with stats using the Fantasy Flight games.

For something more lightweight try picking from 101 Encounters or rolling up an adventure own from several d12 tables

For locations like the Radioactive Plains of Bala there is a Locations name generator.

Donjon shines here with planet names or a System Generator from the SW d6 version of the game

The versatile Multi Gen tool can also create weapon, while there is a whole site dedicated to Star Wars shops. For a simple chart try 101 Star Wars artifacts.

If you want help running a Star Wars RPG there is a simple pdf guide

Finishing Up

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