The Fantasy Names Generator is a tool I use all the time to come up with NPC names.
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That's a good one! I completely forgot about that site, but it's so useful.
There's a few of these in my shop, for free: Most notably Situations For Tabletop Roleplaying, Culture Priming, and the Eikostos Oracle.
Nice! Thanks for sharing.
+1 for azgaar's.
A cool tip for generating more detailed continents with it is to generate several maps of smaller regions, stitch them together in your Photoshop clone of choice, then import the result back into azgaar's. You can get a much more detailed map that way than you could easily generate otherwise, and as a bonus you can have broad control over the shape of landmass!
Here's a map I made as an example
That's a great tip. I'd never thought to do that.
Basically everything by Watabou is amazing. In particular I use the city and village generators a lot.
I know you included all of donjon, but special shout out to the demographics tool.
https://www.fantasytowngenerator.com/ is pretty self explanatory. It technically applies ability scores to NPCs but that's ignorable.
For ambience, I really like Michael Ghelfi on YouTube. He does a lot of music now too, but he started with and excels at, imho, a huge variety of ambience tracks.
I've heard a lot about Watabou today. Looks awesome! +1 for that town generator, that's cool stuff!
I forgot to include Michael Ghelfi! I use his music and ambiance tracks all the time.
https://watabou.itch.io/one-page-dungeon
It kind of only makes one style of dungeon (as far as layout) but it's still a good tool, especially if you need to generate something on short notice. When I've used these, I typically ignore most of the notes it puts in and populate it myself for something more coherent.
I use this generator as a sort of base idea for a dungeon and then modify it. Even so, it's super helpful and a great tool.
I keep hearing about watabou. Definitely going to keep them bookmarked.