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There is Dizzy Dragon's generator which has a variety of layouts and is oriented to Moldavy B/x D&D. There is Donjon's generator which has D&D 3.5 and D&D 4.0 options. But the layout are strictly room and corridor. Both create the encounters for you. Of the two Dizzy Dragon is the best.

You might want Dizzy Dragon's generator. It does encounters and treasure, although no random encounters. The dungeons are generated from geomorphs, so the maps are more complex and interesting than the fully random versions. Each map will have some three dimensionality, with stairs up to some sections and so forth.

Here are some of the sites I use the provide me maps and such. Some are free, some are donation. They are provided by the authors and are "no cost", but they do it for the love of the game. Please help them out if they have a donate button, they work very hard on these. DragonsFoot Dream Weaved Worlds Dungeons Unlimited Fanastic Maps - Jonathon Roberts ...

Paper/books: 2e DMG: On Page 114, there is a sort-of dual table. You can either roll d20, or d% to get general/specific traits. 3.5 DMG: On page 128, there is a table with 100 traits. I'd suggest rolling once for the "fire and forget", and pick your traits for the Tier 1 villains. Maybe roll a few times. I don't see any corresponding tables in the 3.0 ...

Been a while since I've used these and I think most are 3rd ed at best but they are good to have around for ideas. I still use the tavern one all the time. http://www.hackslash.net/?page_id=561 (defunct) http://www.mathemagician.net/Town.html http://www.rdinn.com/town_generator.php http://jtevans.kilnar.com/rpg/dnd/tools/ For taverns try: ...

There is a 4e random generator on donjon.sh, which isn't 4e specific or anything, although the output doesn't look much like yours. Abulafia has a ton of generators in the fantasy category -- check out Fantasy Town and perhaps Fantasy Town Event.

Microscope Microscope is a good example of what you're wanting, but it does not occur during gameplay of another game. Essentially, it is a collaborative world-building game where you and the other players work together to create a universe. Play begins with a list of must and must-nots that the players determine one at a time, until someone declines to ...

In Mystic Empyrean the players create the world as they explore it with a mix of individual authority, shared authority, and random card draws. It's non-traditional in a lot of ways though, so not everyone's cup of tea. It is definitely a worthwhile example of how such a system could be built. Studying the interplay between the system mechanics, character ...

Check out Kellri's CDD#4. It has a good section on settlement design (written for AD&D 1e, but easily adaptable to other editions). Another resource that's less useful for the nitty-gritty details but is great for inspiration is the Settlements and Countries section of Tables for Fables. It's eclectic and not very well organized, but it's a treasure ...

Abulafia Abulafia is a special kind of wiki - it's built to support the creation and use of random generators. So, if one of the generators on this page - like the Fantasy Adventure Generator or the Fantasy Scenario Generator - doesn't do what you want, you can start crafting the generator that does do what you want. And because it, like StackExchange, is ...

Here are a couple good ones: http://www.monsteradvancer.com/ (also has other generators) http://www.dmtools.org/encounters.php http://www.sulerin.com/creatures/ (try dropping the creatures part if that doesn't work) For my purposes they didn't use enough resources I have something like 300 pdf resources and wanted to generate something that had roughly ...

Wizards' site has a character background generator that could give you a good starting point for fleshing out your NPCs. True, it does not provide you stats, but you can easily infer them from the major events it generates and then, in case the NPC proves to be a returning one, fine-tune them in the long run. The Myth Weavers site also has an interesting ...

The Seventh Sanctum has a wide variety of random generators for all sorts of gaming needs, including characters, settings, magic items, etc. The generators only produce descriptions, but for most NPCs, you don't actually need most of their stats, anyways.

Burning Wheel. While the rule system for burning the world as you go is fairly engrained in to the system, it's actually a pretty simplistic system: At the outset of the campaign, you and your players answer questions to get "the wheel burning". It basically boils down to: What is your worlds theme? What guides it? What makes your world ripe for ...

Your OP says you are looking for a generator for said urban function. Try this generator. http://chaoticshiny.com/index.php There are some really funny ones, but there are some Urban mashup charts. I recommend the Law generator. "The penalty for stealing animal parts is a few months' imprisonment. The penalty for a foreigner endangering a member of a ...

Take a look at Dawn of Worlds. It's a simple game that collaboratively creates the world with the players acting as Hellenistic gods (of a sort). It's not "on the fly," "as you go," or sandbox-equse. More a game itself. Most tools in this space will be front loaded with design by the GM, the players and GM, or as a game itself. I've used Dawn of Worlds ...

This has become my favorite resource for generating towns: http://www.mathemagician.net/town.html It does pretty much everything you describe here. To give an example of the level of detail provided, it tells who is likely to be at a tavern at any given time in the day, including staff, entertainers, and patrons. Combine that with the RPG City Map ...

Everchanging Book of Names A flexible name generator with 'chapters' for names from earth culture (Africa to Oceania), as well as several well known settings (WHFRP to Startrek) as well as this it's possible to make a custom library for it to generate names from (it'll apply linguistic rules and generate new names out of the list you provide) Very Snazzy

I don't know about your specific generator but http://nine.frenchboys.net/ has a ridiculous number of very useful generators. It is something I recommend for all GMs/DMs just for the resource and the best part about it is that it is free. If you want to keep it in a file and to choose something at random for flavour, I recommend opening a spread sheet, ...