6 Magic Item Generators Compared
Magic item generators produce the rings, wands, potions, and wondrous items that show up in treasure hoards, shop inventories, and quest rewards. A DM running an unplanned dungeon, a player rolling on a level-up loot table, or a solo player without a GM all need a way to put a specific magic item in front of the party without flipping through the Dungeon Master's Guide. Generators handle that lookup, and most of them also handle the random roll.
Magic item generators fall into two broad groups. Some roll on existing tables of canonical items (the DMG's Magic Item Tables A through I, the Pathfinder treasure tables, the AD&D wondrous items list) and return a name and a page reference. Others invent items from scratch, combining a generated name with a rarity, a price, and a set of mechanical effects to produce something that doesn't exist in any rulebook. A third, smaller category sits in between: physical or printable tools that you roll on during play. This comparison covers all three.
Donjon
Bulk Canonical Loot Across Editions
D&D 5e
D&D 5.5
D&D 4e
AD&D
PF 1e
Donjon offers a magic item generator for nearly every edition of D&D and its descendants. The 5e and 5.5e (2024) generators draw from the DMG and Xanathar's Guide, returning items like Potion of Healing, Adamantine Armor, and Spell Scroll with their rarity and a source page reference. The 4e, AD&D, Pathfinder, and d20 SRD generators each cover their own system's item lists, with the older editions including gp values alongside the item name and book reference.
Each generator produces a numbered list of ten items at a time. Filters let you narrow by rarity and item type where the source material supports it. The output is plain text without descriptions, card layouts, or portraits, which makes it fast to scan and easy to copy into notes. This is the generator to use when you need a stack of canonical loot for a hoard or shop and don't want to roll d100 nine times yourself.
One-Off Items with Unusual Mechanics
D&D 5eDonjon's Weird Magic Item generator is a separate D&D 5e tool that produces a single item with unusual mechanics instead of pulling from the standard tables. Results include things like a Scroll of Wild Magic pieced together from fragments of other scrolls, or items with caveats that change how they're used. There's no rarity filter and only one item per generation. Use it when you want loot that feels strange rather than loot that matches the encounter's budget.
The Thieves Guild
DMG Tables A–I, One at a Time
D&D 5e
D&D 5e
D&D 5e
D&D 5e
D&D 5e
D&D 5e
D&D 5e
D&D 5e
D&D 5eThe Thieves Guild splits its magic item generator across nine separate pages, one for each of the DMG's Magic Item Tables A through I. Each page rolls a d100 against that specific table and returns a single item with the original roll shown alongside it. Tables A–E are the lower-tier hoard tables, F–I cover the higher-tier hoards, and the structure mirrors the DMG exactly. Each result includes a link to the item's rules entry on the site, so you can click through and read the full text without leaving the page.
The split-by-table approach is the main difference from Donjon's 5e generator. Donjon rolls across the entire item list at once; The Thieves Guild lets you target the specific DMG table that matches an encounter's treasure budget. If your hoard rules call for "roll twice on Table B and once on Table F," this is the tool that does exactly that. The tradeoff is that you generate one item at a time per page, rather than a bulk list.
Kassoon
Invented Items in Weapon/Armor/Trinket Sets
D&D 5eKassoon's Magic Items Generator invents new items rather than rolling on existing tables. Each generation produces a Magic Weapon, Magic Armor, and Magic Trinket, each with a generated name like "Indomitable Lance" or "Splint Armor of the Inquisitor," a rarity, and a one- or two-sentence mechanical effect. A separate Magic Backstory block gives the items an origin and a hook, which is useful when an invented item needs a reason to exist in the world.
Filters cover minimum and maximum rarity (Common through Legendary) and a Cursed toggle that can mix in cursed items. The output is plain text with bold item names but no card layout or images. Because the effects are procedurally combined rather than pulled from a fixed list, results can be straightforward (+1 to a skill check) or oddly specific (break grapples in a particular situation). Use Kassoon when you want loot that isn't already in the DMG and don't mind some results needing a pass for balance.
DNDNames
Single Homebrew Items with Lore
D&D 5eDNDNames generates one homebrew magic item at a time and gives each one more text than any other generator on this list. A typical result includes the item name, rarity, a gp price range, and four short paragraphs covering its appearance, its history, its mechanical effect, and a sensory quirk associated with using it. The text reads like a polished entry from a sourcebook.
The tradeoff is volume. There are no filters for rarity or type, and an "Another!" button generates one new item at a time. This makes DNDNames better for fleshing out a single named reward (the artifact at the end of a dungeon, the heirloom in a backstory) than for filling a hoard. The depth per item is the point.
AwkwardTurtle
A Printable Swap Table for Play
*Lady Luck's Traveling Gachapon is a one-page system-agnostic PDF rather than a browser-based generator. Players "feed" their existing magic items to Lady Luck and roll a die whose size depends on which descriptors (Plentiful, Famous, Divine, Masterwork, Heirloom) apply to their offerings. The roll returns a result from a 20-entry table of wondrous prizes, services, and one-shot magical effects.
The mechanism is closer to a mini-game than a loot generator. It's designed to be used at the table during play, as a way for a party with too many items to trade unwanted gear for chance-based rewards. Because the table is system-agnostic, the results describe their effects in general terms rather than referencing specific game mechanics, leaving the GM to adjudicate.
PSJMaps RPG Tools
Four Against Darkness Items
This generator rolls on the magic items table from Four Against Darkness, a solo dungeon-delving game with its own set of treasure tables. The ruleset selector defaults to the Standard Magic Items Table (page 34 of the rulebook), and a quantity selector lets you roll once or perform multiple rolls in one batch. Results are short text entries matching the original printed table.
This is the only generator on this list dedicated to a non-D&D system. If you're running Four Against Darkness solo and don't want to flip to the back of the book each time the rules call for a magic item, this saves the lookup. It's narrow by design: the table is the table, and the tool doesn't add anything beyond rolling on it.
Choosing a Generator
For bulk canonical loot across editions, Donjon's magic item generators are the broadest option and the only ones that cover AD&D, 4e, and older d20 systems. For D&D 5e specifically, The Thieves Guild gives you finer control by splitting its rolls across the DMG's individual tables, which matters when your hoard rules call for specific tables rather than a generic item pool. Kassoon and DNDNames both invent new items: Kassoon produces weapon/armor/trinket sets in bulk, while DNDNames produces single items with multi-paragraph lore. Lady Luck's Traveling Gachapon is the only tool here designed for use during play rather than during prep, and PSJMaps' generator is the only one for a system other than D&D or its derivatives. Most tables will benefit from having both a roll-on-existing-tables tool and an invent-new-items tool bookmarked, since the two solve different problems.