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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9356444" data-attributes="member: 7044704">I've seen zombie apocalypse settings set in historical eras as far back as the Roman Empire (yes, starting a few weeks after Christ gets nailed to a cross), and I think there's a Mythos-related one in the same period as well from...maybe Osprey?&nbsp; But none of those were whole books to themselves, just campaign seeds.&nbsp; Pretty sure there's at least one and possibly several post-Ragnarok semi-historicals games out there too, as well as &quot;bad guys won&quot; pure fantasy settings.Played in a semi-historical GURPS homebrew where multiple simultaneous Vesuvius-grade eruptions essentially destroyed Mediterranean civilization (massive famine from crop failures, tsunamis, collapse of trade, unburied corpses leading to plague, etc.) and we were survivors.&nbsp; Given how much smaller the ancient world effectively was to most of its residents, what we'd call a regional catastrophe today fills in as an apocalypse scenario just fine.&nbsp; Certainly some potential for early apocalypses, and if you want to go explicitly magical you can blame the pre-ethical pantheon(s) of your choice.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9356444, member: 7044704"] I've seen zombie apocalypse settings set in historical eras as far back as the Roman Empire (yes, starting a few weeks after Christ gets nailed to a cross), and I think there's a Mythos-related one in the same period as well from...maybe Osprey? But none of those were whole books to themselves, just campaign seeds. Pretty sure there's at least one and possibly several post-Ragnarok semi-historicals games out there too, as well as "bad guys won" pure fantasy settings. Played in a semi-historical GURPS homebrew where multiple simultaneous Vesuvius-grade eruptions essentially destroyed Mediterranean civilization (massive famine from crop failures, tsunamis, collapse of trade, unburied corpses leading to plague, etc.) and we were survivors. Given how much smaller the ancient world effectively was to most of its residents, what we'd call a regional catastrophe today fills in as an apocalypse scenario just fine. Certainly some potential for early apocalypses, and if you want to go explicitly magical you can blame the pre-ethical pantheon(s) of your choice. [/QUOTE]

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