History TabletopGame / AllFleshMustBeEaten

''All Flesh Must Be Eaten'' is one of the most popular and well known gamelines produced by ''Eden Studios'' for its UsefulNotes/{{Unisystem}} roleplaying game, even compared to its [[LicensedGame RPGs inspired by]] ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', ''Series/{{Angel}}'' and ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness''.

* ''Dial Z for Hero'': A deadworld parodying the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden]] and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Ages of comic books]], where people who have died have mysteriously been returning as super-powered undead heroes and villains.

* ''Aces High: UsefulNotes/WorldWarI'': When Baron von Richthoven, alias The Red Baron, is shot down in January 1917, his restless soul refuses to stay dead and he rises as an undead pilot, determined to continue fighting for his beloved Fatherland. His existence, and the strange curse that lets him instinctively resurrect any member of his "Flying Circus" as a fellow zombie pilot -- only when they have been destroyed a second time, truly killing them, is a new pilot inducted into the Flying Circus -- have furthermore goaded the Germans to put into usage the diaries of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrankensteinsMonster Baron Frankenstein]], retrieved from a castle in Switzerland. Only the revenant of Richard Raymond-Barker can slay the undead Red Baron, but the other German undead are not so bound by destiny. This deadworld originally appeared on the now-lost [=AFMBE=] website.

* ''Aces High: UsefulNotes/WorldWarI'': When Baron von Richthoven, alias The Red Baron, is shot down in January 1917, his restless soul refuses to stay dead and he rises as an undead pilot, determined to continue fighting for his beloved Fatherland. His existence, and the strange curse that lets him instinctively resurrect any member of his "Flying Circus" as a fellow zombie pilot -- only when they have been destroyed a second time, truly killing them, is a new pilot inducted into the Flying Circus -- have furthermore goaded the Germans to put into usage the diaries of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrankensteinsMonster Baron Frankenstein]], retrieved from a castle in Switzerland. Only the revenant of Richard Raymond-Barker can slay the undead Red Baron, but the other German undead are not so bound by destiny.

* DeathBySex: Invoked in the "[=PHADE=] to Black" deadworld, where the cause of The Rise is an STD that doesn't kill its victims immediately.

* ILoveNuclearPower: Radiation creates the zombies in several of the official deadworlds.

* ''Zombies, Inc.'': The Franchise/DocSavage-like "Pinnacle of Humanity", a legendary adventurer and crusader for justice named Zaxor, has discovered a formula that returns the dead to life. The discovery drove him insane, and now he seeks to create a huge gang of his unusually intelligent zombies to form his own global crime empire.

''All Flesh Must Be Eaten'', typically abbreviated as "AFMBE", is a SurvivalHorror TabletopRolePlayingGame based around the concept of a ZombieApocalypse. Extremely modular in both character design, creature design and setting design, this has contributed to its surprising levels of popularity: not only did the corebook eventually receive a "Revised" edition with rules for converting from Unisystem to TabletopGame/D20Modern, it spawned two books containing nothing but premade character archetypes, three books of collected fiction, a world of pre-made settings, and an array of other sourcebooks as well. These include mixing zombies with {{Pulp}}, [[{{Wuxia}} Kung-Fu]] and GunFu action, Westerns, ScienceFiction, pirates, conventional fantasy and ''wrestling''.

* ''Sacred Soil'': An apparently successful attempt to create an evironmentally friendly fertilizer has created mutated plants that infest the bodies of the dead and raise them to destroy humanity.

* ''Dawn Of The Zombie Lords'': The world has been conquered by the undead armies of a number of incredibly powerful necromancers, who now rule over seperate territories.

* ''Bloody Old Muddy'': Though the Union/Confederate war ended five years ago, the dying goes on, as the Confederate dabbling in bioweaponry has unleashed a plague that spread rampantly across the Mississipi River, leaving an ever-growing horde of zombies.

* ''Cyber Marines and Death Scenes'': All contact has been lost with MR-372, an alien planet that humans have colonised and which is the source of a remarkable bio-energy source that is of great importance to the human race. {{Space Marine}}s sent to investigate have learned that the planet has been invaded by the Acridians, a biotech using race of dimension-traveling insectoids, carnivorous, brutal, war-like and bloodthirsty beings that ravage and conquer dimensions. They have already slaughtered the human inhabitants of MR-372, draining their spinal fluid for an aphrodesiac and recreational drug and converting the corpses into zombie slaves. Loosely inspired by ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' and ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''.

* ''Tales of the Walking Dead: Literature/ArabianNights'': In 796 AD, when the ambitious Vizir to the Sultan Ibn Madhi of Amman offers his own daughter's hand to the bride-seeking royal, the young girl runs out into the desert and beseeches the spirits of the sand to save her from marriage to such a brutal man. Discovering a jinni bound in a ring, she barters its freedom in exchange for an unstoppable army that will destroy not only her hated would-be groom, but the entire Islamic Empire. Amused by this idea, the jinni agrees, calling to lesser jinn and having them possess the nearly ten thousand victims of the Sultan, raising them up as an army of the walking dead that destroy Amman, then lope off into the dunes in pursuit of their goal.

* ''Legacy'': A post-apocalyptic world where unbridled ecological destruction have caused the dead to walk, forcing humanity to fight side by side with Simulcra, artificial humanoids, in hopes of staving off the destruction of their species.

* ApocalypticLog: A game can certainly have plenty of these pop up. The opening fiction for the corebook in both editions is one of these of a scientist documentating his own succumbing to the zombie infection.

* DeadlyLunge: A zombie special motion aspect (it's even called "The Lunge").

* HollywoodVoodoo: Scrupulously averted in the "Arrgh! Thar Be Zombies!" sourcebook, which, while it does include some more "fantastic" options for vodoo, focuses on on providing a realistic breakdown of the various loa and their worship.

* NonIronicClown: Yes, really, with the "Alcoholic Party Clown" character archetype hosted on the game's official website. According to his bio, guy used to be an entertainer at kids' parties who enjoyed his job, and despite the ZombieApocalypse [[DrowningMySorrows hitting him pretty damn hard]], he's still doing his best to survive, help out others [[FriendToAllChildren (especially kids)]], and trying to [[SadClown bring a bit of levity to the grim realities of a zombie-plagued world]].

* ''After The Bomb'': A (mundane) post-apocalyptic setting crawling with zombies.

* ''The Cycle of Death'': The looming energy crises were solved when India made startling advances in the fields of bio-engineering and nanotechnology. However, these advances have brought with them dangers. Most notably, the as-yet-undiscovered existence of a mighty psychic entity, born of a growing telepathic network amongst humanity and the mental thrashings of which spawn vile entites of pure psionic rage encased in dead human flesh -- the "demons" known as Asuras -- and a deadly type of nanobots known as Pil3/s, or "Legion", that exist only to infect human bodies, dissassemble them for the raw materials to make more nanobots, and spread, still wearing a ghastly pastiche of the body they were made from.

* ''Virtual Armageddon'': In a world ravaged by a vicious virus that targets the central nervous system, massive numbers of people are abandoning their bodies to escape to a huge virtual reality world called "Neutopia". However, this sanctuary is proving a deadly trap; the victims of the Norepinephrine Targeted Misfire Syndrome are rising as deadly zombies in real life, and the combination of their depredations and the strain caused by the mass emigration of humanity is causing the system to begin breaking down. Which results in many of the virtual humans being corrupted into "Lo Res Zombies", who exist only to corrupt other virtiual humans into more of their own kind. Zombies in reality, zombies in the system, and it may not be long before the system breaks down utterly.

* ''Frankenstein, 1935'': Baron Frankenstein's study into reanimating the dead revolutionised the British Empire when he used his lore to restore life to Queen Victoria, who now rules as the 116-year-old Queen Victoria the Everlasting. But the British Empire has stagnated into a decadent, corrupt civilisation, supported by a huge slave-caste of blood-drinking semi-mindless reanimates.

* ''Sweet Zombie Treat'': In the 1990s, the heir to a once-wealthy icecream company used black magic to contact the spirit of the company's founder, his grandmother, and received a new recipe for an icecream that was both low-calorie and ultra-delicious. The only problem is that people who eat it and die come back as zombies, still addicted to that ice-cream... and perfectly willing to rip it out of living peoples' guts to get it.
* ''Welcome To Whimseyville'': The dark secret of the popular themepark Whimseyville is that all of its "animatronic" characters are actually zombies, created through chemically preserved corpses animated by computer chips in their brains. Perfectly harmless... Except for the fact that Hurricane George has recently blown past, scrambling the programming in the zombies and leaving them increasingly hungry for fresh meat and belligerent.

* NeverSayDie: As per the films of its origin, heroes never really die in "Singing Cowboys"... ''unless'' a zombie kills you. Zombies didn't read the script, and they don't know that white hats only ever get knocked out and taken hostage...

* ''Undead Kombat'': Centuries ago, a group of Persian mystics discovered that the souls of those who had slain at least 20 people were trapped in limbo, and could be resummoned as undead warriors. However, every 25 years, these zombies would need to destroy and consume the essence of another zombie, lest they return to oblivion. The mystics established a tournament, held once every 24 years, in which their stables of undead warriors would duel to feed themselves and winnow out the weak -- now, in the modern era, not only has this tournament become the obsession of the mystics, a new trial run is being held. For the first time, powerful living warriors are being allowed to compete. Inspired by ''VideoGame/MortalKombat''.

* OutsideGenreFoe: While various "deadworlds" would essentially have run the same without the ZombieApocalypse to deal with, the ''Fistful O'Zombies'' "deadworld" ''Singing Cowboys'' explicitly falls into this, with the InUniverse director of the BMovie that the Player Characters are part of shoving a ZombieApocalypse into the script with nobody else being the wiser (in an attempt to to cash in on ''both'' the Creator/RoyRogers "[[TitleDrop singing cowboy]]" type of [[TheWestern Westerns]] and the sci-fi film craze of TheFifties), and no adjustments done to the plot. As such, the rules encourage the Games Master and the players to play a LighterandSofter, DenserAndWackier, NeverSayDie type of game... [[OhCrap until]] [[CerebusSyndrome the zombies]] [[AnyoneCanDie come along]].

* OutsideGenreFoe: While various "deadworlds" would essentially have run the same without the ZombieApocalypse to deal with, the ''Fistful O'Zombies'' "deadworld" ''Singing Cowboys'' explicitly falls into this, with the InUniverse director of the BMovie that the Player Characters are part of shoving a ZombieApocalypse into the script with nobody else being the wiser (in an attempt to to cash in on ''both'' the RoyRogers "[[TitleDrop singing cowboy]]" type of [[TheWestern Westerns]] and the sci-fi film craze of TheFifties), and no adjustments done to the plot. As such, the rules encourage the Games Master and the players to play a LighterandSofter, DenserAndWackier, NeverSayDie type of game... [[OhCrap until]] [[CerebusSyndrome the zombies]] [[AnyoneCanDie come along]].

* ''Undead Kombat'': Centuries ago, a group of Persian mystics discovered that the souls of those who had slain at least 20 people were trapped in limbo, and could be resummoned as undead warriors. However, every 25 years, these zombies would need to destroy and consume the essence of another zombie, lest they return to oblivion. The mystics established a tournament, held once every 24 years, in which their stables of undead warriors would duel to feed themselves and winnow out the weak -- now, in the modern era, not only has this tournament become the obsession of the mystics, a new trial run is being held. For the first time, powerful living warriors are being allowed to compete. Inspired by ''MortalKombat''.

* WeirdHistoricalWar: Multiple Deadworlds involve a ZombieApocalypse erupting in the middle of a war, sometimes because of a government project trying to weaponize the dead and sometimes because the war disrupted ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow.

* ''Peace, Love and Zombies'': The {{CIA}}'s "Project: MK-ULTRA" went down no less than three routes in reviving the dead. Group A used radiation to enhance a rare virus first discovered by the Werhmact near the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, injecting this into living victims to strong, bloodthirsty, brutal, uncontrollable zombies that could spread their condition by biting. Group B used research into Voodoo to create a chemical compound that would bring back a recently deceased body as a docile, inoffensive, simple-minded walking corpse. Group C used a chemical process perfected in the 1920s by [[Literature/HerbertWestReanimator a little-known Massachusetts physician who disappeared under mysterious circumstances]], creating fully intelligent zombies -- who needed to feed on human brains. Group C organized a break out, and the three types of zombie have since scattered across America.

* ''True Grit'': Four explorers found the ruined capital city of the lost Indian tribe, the Anasazi, and foolishly broke the elder signs imprisoning the EldritchAbomination, "Kinatuk -- [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Blood Thing]]", which had destroyed the Anasazi. Now free to roam the world once more, Kinatuk has begun to slaughter humans and animals alike, reviving them as zombified slaves that drip gore from their mouths. Based upon "gritty" Western movies from the 1960s and 70s, as personified by Creator/JohnWayne.

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