What is the best free fantasy town generator?

For a town you can run a game in, Worldtable's: free, no sign-up, with who lives in each house, shop wares and prices, and named streets and districts. For a quick plan to edit as vector art, Watabou's Medieval Fantasy City Generator, which exports SVG.

Which town generator exports SVG?

Watabou's Medieval Fantasy City Generator and his Village Generator export PNG, SVG and JSON. Worldtable exports a PNG, the lore as Markdown and its own town file.

Which town generators make NPCs and shops?

Worldtable shows who lives and works in each building and every shop's hours, wares and prices. Fantasy Town Generator gives every resident a personality, relationships and a daily routine. RPG Map Editor names the owners of notable places, and LoreKeeper's NPCs come from its separate NPC generator.

Can I use these maps in Foundry or Roll20?

All of them give you an image you can drop in. For fights, Worldtable's battle map generator exports Universal VTT files with walls, doors and lights, Fantasy Town Generator works with Foundry and Roll20, and LoreKeeper's maps come gridded at play scale.

It's written by Worldtable and our generator comes first, so read it that way. Everything about the other tools comes from their own pages, checked on 23 October 2026, and each entry says what it does better than ours.

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The best fantasy town generators in 2026

Six tools that give you a town map for your game, from one-click generators to a hand-painted map editor: what each one makes, whether it fills the town with people, what you can download, whether it needs an account, and its catch. Written by Worldtable, whose generator is first on the list, and we say so.

The short version

A town with its people, shops and story: Worldtable
The classic one-click city plan, with SVG export: Watabou
A simulated population you can export as data: Fantasy Town Generator
A generated city you then repaint in a tile editor: RPG Map Editor
A settlement from one sentence, with hazards and checks: LoreKeeper
A town you paint yourself, stamp by stamp: Inkarnate

At a glance

Tool	How the map is made	People and shops	Downloads	Account
Worldtable	Generated, in 15 building styles	Who lives and works in each building; shop hours, wares and prices	PNG, Markdown lore, town file	None
Watabou	Generated, with style presets and warp tools	None	PNG, SVG, JSON	None
Fantasy Town Generator	Generated, every part editable	Residents with routines and relationships; what each building offers	Image; buildings and people as CSV or JSON	Free account to keep towns
RPG Map Editor	Generated from a whole region	Named landmarks and their owners	3200 px PNG free; more in the paid editor	None to generate
LoreKeeper	Painted by AI from your sentence	NPCs from a separate generator	Map image	None for a few a day
Inkarnate	Painted by hand in an editor	None	Image, 2K on the free plan	Required

The list

1. Worldtable (our pick, obviously)

A free town generator that draws a whole settlement and then fills it. Pick a size from a hamlet of about 700 people to a capital of about 70,000, one of 15 building styles (storybook, elven, arcane, halfling, dwarven, desert and more), the coast, river or lake, the walls and the country around it. Click any building for who lives or works there, and any shop for its hours, wares and prices. Every street and district is named in the town's style, and AI writes its history, its trouble and its rumours if you want.

Best for: Game masters who want a town they can run a session in, not only look at.
Downloads: A large lettered PNG, the lore and names as Markdown, and a town file to open it again. The battle map generator cuts fights out of the same towns as Universal VTT files.
Account: None, and no limit on maps. The AI-written story is limited to a few towns a day.
The catch: No SVG or JSON export, and the look follows the building style, so you can't recolour the map or reshape the plan by hand the way Watabou's generator lets you.

Try it: the Fantasy Town Generator.

2. Medieval Fantasy City Generator (Watabou)

The generator most map makers know. One click draws a medieval city of the size you ask for, with a citadel, walls, river, coast, temple, plaza and shanty town switched on or off, named districts and roads, and a style window with colour schemes and presets. Its author's aim is "a nice looking map, not an accurate model of a city." His Village Generator does the same for small places, in a more detailed illustrated style.

Best for: A good-looking city plan in seconds, and anyone who wants to edit the map as vector art.
Downloads: PNG, SVG and JSON, all free. The maps can go in commercial adventures, with no credit required.
Account: None. It runs in the browser; its author says it isn't designed for small touchscreens.
The catch: It draws the plan only: no residents, shops or story, and labels are placed automatically.

Site: watabou.itch.io.

3. Fantasy Town Generator

The closest thing to Worldtable's generator on this list: an interactive town map where clicking a building shows its name, what it offers and the people inside, each with a personality, appearance, relationships and a daily routine. Settings cover the layout, building materials, climate, coast, rivers and walls, and the races, religions and government of the place, and "Simulate time" moves people around town.

Best for: Game masters who want a deep, simulated population and data they can take elsewhere.
Downloads: An image of the town, and the buildings and people as CSV or JSON. It also works with Foundry VTT and Roll20.
Account: Without one you get a single temporary town, deleted after 24 hours. A free account keeps 10.
The catch: Without an account nothing lasts, and the largest size (about 50,000 people) is premium.

Site: fantasytowngenerator.com.

4. RPG Map Editor's Fantasy City Generator

Builds a medieval city from a seed by generating a whole region first and picking the settlement that fits, so the coast, rivers and approach roads follow real geography. Village, town, city or capital; coastal, on a river or inland; walls, gates, a citadel, harbour piers, named districts and streets, and notable places with names and owners, in four inks.

Best for: People who want to keep working on the map: the city opens in their tile editor in separate layers.
Downloads: A free 3200 by 3200 PNG with no account. The paid editor exports for virtual tabletops and as starter projects for game engines.
Account: None to generate and download.
The catch: Editing the city needs one of their paid editions, and there are no residents or shop details.

Site: rpgmapeditor.com.

5. LoreKeeper's City Map Generator

Describe the place in a sentence and in about a minute it returns map art, a key of named districts and landmarks, hazards with difficulty checks, and the history of the place, on a square or hex grid at play scale. LoreKeeper's AI policy says its writing runs on Anthropic's Claude and its images on specialist models.

Best for: Odd premises a fixed generator can't do, and maps that are ready for an encounter.
Downloads: The map image, for Roll20, Foundry, Owlbear Rodeo, Fantasy Grounds or print.
Account: None for a small daily allowance; a free account to keep going and save maps.
The catch: The map is a painted picture rather than a plan: there are no street names or building styles to choose, and NPCs come from a separate generator.

Site: lorekeeper.com.

6. Inkarnate

Not a generator: an online map maker where you paint the land and place hand-drawn stamps, with city and village maps among its map types. It has tens of thousands of hand-drawn assets and a large community library of maps you can copy and adapt.

Best for: A finished, illustrated town map that looks exactly the way you picture it.
Downloads: Images: up to 2K on the free plan, 8K on Creator, 16K (in beta) on Studio.
Account: Required. The free plan has a small selection of the art, up to 3 maps, and personal use only.
The catch: You draw every street and house yourself; nothing is generated for you.

Site: inkarnate.com.

How to choose

You need a town to run tonight: Worldtable or Fantasy Town Generator: both give you the people and the shops along with the streets.
You want a map to edit as art: Watabou for SVG, RPG Map Editor for a tile editor, Inkarnate to paint one from scratch.
You want the data: Fantasy Town Generator exports buildings and people as CSV or JSON; Watabou exports the plan as JSON.
You want to fight there: Worldtable's battle map generator cuts a gridded fight out of the same town, with walls, doors and lights for Foundry; LoreKeeper's maps come gridded, with hazards.
You don't want an account: Worldtable, Watabou and RPG Map Editor need none; LoreKeeper allows a few a day.

Questions

What is the best free fantasy town generator?: For a town you can run a game in, Worldtable's: free, no sign-up, with who lives in each house, shop wares and prices, and named streets and districts. For a quick plan to edit as vector art, Watabou's Medieval Fantasy City Generator, which exports SVG.
Which town generator exports SVG?: Watabou's Medieval Fantasy City Generator and his Village Generator export PNG, SVG and JSON. Worldtable exports a PNG, the lore as Markdown and its own town file.
Which town generators make NPCs and shops?: Worldtable shows who lives and works in each building and every shop's hours, wares and prices. Fantasy Town Generator gives every resident a personality, relationships and a daily routine. RPG Map Editor names the owners of notable places, and LoreKeeper's NPCs come from its separate NPC generator.
Can I use these maps in Foundry or Roll20?: All of them give you an image you can drop in. For fights, Worldtable's battle map generator exports Universal VTT files with walls, doors and lights, Fantasy Town Generator works with Foundry and Roll20, and LoreKeeper's maps come gridded at play scale.
Is this list biased?: It's written by Worldtable and our generator comes first, so read it that way. Everything about the other tools comes from their own pages, checked on 23 October 2026, and each entry says what it does better than ours.

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