Random Table PDFs for Space Fantasy and Science Fantasy

Here we are looking at pdf and book titles for Science Fantasy and Space Fantasy on Drive Thru RPG.

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Starting Points

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

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

Nov 2024: new titles and shuffled titles around; April 2024: added new titles;

Major Titles

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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

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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...

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

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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.

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.

Spelljammer

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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

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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