Free Generators for Writers

Marble temples. Markets bursting with ripe fruit. Bustling metropolises glittering with glass and steel.

Details like these draw readers in. They create a sense of realism, build a story world that’s unique and memorable, and make readers fall in love with an imaginary place. If you’re in the world-building stage of writing, these fantasy name generators can help.

Character Generators

• The Character Creator allows you to visually build an avatar for each of your characters.
• The aptly-named Character Generator prompts you to choose characteristics for your characters, from age, sex, and gender to their cause of death.
• The Quick Character Generator randomly generates physical characteristics, plus traits such as personality, likes, and dislikes.
• The Basic Character Appearance Generator includes such details as skin color, hair color, eye color, height, weight, and build.
• The Character Name Generator claims that they have over 220,000 names to cycle through. There are quite a few forms to fill out to narrow the choices down.
• The Character Design Art Prompt Idea Generator includes everything from personality to motive to fighting skills.

Mythological Creatures

• The Fantasy Creature Name Generator is probably the most extensive list of random generators, including both common mythological creatures like dragons to the less-well-known kitsune of Japanese folklore.
• The Beings and Creatures option for Seventh Sanctum covers aliens, animal-humanoids, dragons, fantasy races, and monsters.
• The Fantasy/Mythical Animal Generator generates a paragraph devoted to depicting mythological beasts.

Plot Generators

• The Plot Generator allows you to choose from short stories, movie scripts, fairytales, story ideas, opening lines, twists, and more. It even helps you to create a blurb for your story!
• The Fantasy Plot Generator allows you to choose your genre: drama, fantasy, mystery, romance, or sci-fi.
• The Writer’s Plot Idea Generator gives simple plot ideas. Need a plot twist? Use their Plot Twist Generator.
• The Plot Generator (this is a different one, I promise!) lets you choose from three different genres: action, fantasy, and romance.
• The Quick Plot Generator gives you a short but detail-heavy plot line to help generate ideas.

World-Building Generators

• The Worldbuilding Generator includes options like city, continent, currency, fantasy race, laws, pets, planets, plants, solar system, species, and terrain.
• The WorldBuilding Relevant Generator Index includes random generators for currencies, deities, kingdom names, races, holidays, plants, herbs and flowers, and location/setting.
• The Setting and Location option from Seventh Sanctum randomly generates names for sites of adventure, lost civilizations, outer planes, realms, rooms, and tavern names.

I hope these serve as good sounding boards and help you on your journey as a writer!