About the Random Planet Generator
A result looks like "Vethara IV, a frozen methane world". The name comes from a list of 64 invented words built to sound like they belong on a star chart, the Roman numeral marks the planet position in its system, and the terrain is drawn from 64 descriptors covering everything from salt flats and ammonia seas to ringed gas giants and shattered crusts.
None of the names belong to an existing franchise or a real catalogued exoplanet, so anything you draw is free to use in your own campaign or manuscript without stepping on somebody else's setting. The numeral is more than decoration: reroll a few times and the numbering suggests how crowded a system is, which is a useful nudge when you are sketching a sector map.
Game masters use it to fill a jump route with places nobody planned for, writers use it to seed a backdrop, and hobbyists use it to name a fleet of imagined colonies. Once a planet has a name, the Random Setting Generator can supply the ground level location where a scene happens, and the Random Superhero Generator populates it with someone unusual.
How to use
- Choose how many worlds you want in one draw.
- Press Generate and reroll until a name and terrain pairing catches your interest.
- Copy the shortlist or download it as a text file for your campaign notes.
Common questions
- Are these real planets?
- No. Every name is invented for this tool, and no entry corresponds to a body in our solar system or a catalogued exoplanet.
- What does the Roman numeral mean?
- It follows the science fiction convention of numbering planets outward from their star, so IV is the fourth world in that system.
- Can I use these names in a published work?
- Yes. The names are generated from an invented word list with no trademarked or copyrighted sources.
- How varied is the output?
- Sixty-four names, eight numerals and sixty-four terrain types give over 32000 combinations before any repeat becomes likely.