Fantasy Town Generator

What you can make

• Any size of settlement, from a hamlet of a few farms to a capital of seventy thousand, and how far it sprawls.
• Fifteen ways of building: heartland, northern, Mediterranean, imperial, desert, eastern, steppe, tropical, sylvan, dwarven and orcish, plus four fantasy ones. A storybook town is the map from the inside cover of an adventure: a high street to the square, cottages in their gardens, the inn, the church and the manor easy to find. A high elven city curves round a moon garden under great trees joined by canopy walkways. An arcane city radiates from a spire, with ley lines, a rune ward and isles floating over the roofs. Halfling burrows are round doors in grassy hillocks. Each style changes the street plan, the houses, the temple, the walls and the fields around it.
• Where it stands: on a coast with a harbour, astride a river with bridges and riverside streets (and streams running into it), by a lake with its jetties, climbing a hill, inside walls or open to the fields, with parks if you want them. Walls bulge out along the roads the town grew on, and an open town spreads the way its houses did. The country around it can be deep forest, mountains with crags and a cliff, marsh with reed beds and plank causeways, desert dunes round an oasis, snow, or ash with lava running past.
• Names for everything: its streets, districts, taverns, temple and castle, in the town's own style. Roll new ones, or change any of them, down to a shop's sign, its hours and what it sells.
• A story: its history, what's going wrong there right now, the people worth meeting and the rumours in the tavern. Write it yourself or have AI write it from the map.
• A past: burn a district, ruin the temple, breach the walls, raise a new hall.
• Yours to keep: the map as a large lettered PNG, the lore as Markdown, and a town file to come back to.

A different town for every people

A building style isn't a colour swap. It decides how the town grows: whether the lanes wander or run straight, whether houses stand in terraces, around courtyards or alone, what the temple looks like, and what the walls are made of.

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  Storybook

  cottages in their gardens round the inn

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  Heartland

  timber terraces and a market cross

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  Imperial

  a surveyed grid around a forum

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  Desert

  a medina of courtyard houses

The same towns players walk through

Worldtable is a place to build fantasy worlds and play in them, with an AI game master. Every town on a Worldtable world's map is drawn by this generator, from what the world map says about the ground: which side the sea is on, where the river runs, which way the roads leave. Players walk its streets, and when a story burns a district down, the map shows it. Here you can make one town on its own, for your own table.

Questions

Is the town generator free?

Yes, with no sign-up. Drawing towns, naming them and downloading the map cost nothing and have no limit. Only the AI-written story is rationed, to a few towns per visitor per day, because each one costs us a little to write. You can always write the story yourself.

Can I use the maps in my D&D campaign, book or game?

Yes. Download the map as a PNG and the lore and names as a Markdown file, and use them however you like, including in published work.

How is the map made?

By the same town generator that draws the towns in Worldtable's worlds. It lays the roads out of town first, then the market square, the temple and the castle, then the walls with gates where the roads cross them, then the side streets and the houses along them. The building style decides how it's laid out and built: winding lanes and terraces, a surveyed grid, a desert medina, longhouses inside a palisade, yurts on the steppe.

Can I name the streets and districts?

Yes. Every named street, district and place starts with a name that fits the town's style, and you can type over any of them, in the list or by clicking it on the map. Redrawing the streets keeps your names on the main roads and districts they belonged to.

Will my town still be here if I come back?

It's kept in your browser until you start a new one. To keep it for good, download the town file: open it here again any time to carry on editing.

What is a burg?

Map makers use "burg" for any settlement on a fantasy map, from a hamlet to a capital. This generator makes one burg in detail: its streets, walls, districts, landmarks and the people in it.