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
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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 Tools Guide for Planes Beyond. Finally for more PDF titles try Random Table Titles for Fantasy.
Sept 2024: Added titles. Jan 2024: Added more titles.
Major Titles
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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
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...
- 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
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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.
- 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 places affected by magic them 1d100 Plus Magic Events from Lore Wise Games will give you some ideas.
- 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.
Other Titles
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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.
Finishing Up
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