History AfterTheEnd / TabletopGames

* ''[[TabletopGame/MutantYearZero Mutant: Year Zero]]'' : In this game, you play as one of the People -- heavily mutated humans living in the Ark, a small and isolated settlement in a sea of chaos. The outside world is unknown to you, and so is your origin (there are also expansions for mutated ''animals'', robots and non-mutated humans). It appears to be at least loosely a prequel to ''TabletopGame/MutantUA'', just set much closer to the End (by ''UA'' civilizations have arisen and stabilized).

* ''Mutant -- Year Zero'' : In this game, you play as one of the People -- heavily mutated humans living in the Ark, a small and isolated settlement in a sea of chaos. The outside world is unknown to you, and so is your origin (there are also expansions for mutated ''animals'', robots and non-mutated humans). It appears to be at least loosely a prequel to ''TabletopGame/MutantUA'', just set much closer to the End (by ''UA'' civilizations have arisen and stabilized).

* ''TabletopGame/TwentyThreeHundredAD'' is the sequel game to Twilight:2000, but since it's set 300 years after the earlier game, after humanity has had time to recover, it's generally much more upbeat.

* ''Mutant -- Year Zero'' : In this game, you play as one of the People -- heavily mutated humans living in the Ark, a small and isolated settlement in a sea of chaos. The outside world is unknown to you, and so is your origin.

* ''DarthWiki/TheChroniclesOfFate''. AfterTheEnd + EarthIsABattlefield + SchizoTech + WeirdScience + FantasyKitchenSink + [[PersonOfMassDestruction People Of Mass Destruction]] + TropeOverdosed + SerialEscalation + [[UpToEleven Turned Up To Eleven]] = good clean fun for the whole family.

* ''TabletopGame/StarsWithoutNumber'' features an event known as the Scream, which wiped out all contact between the galaxy and all methods of hyperspace travel. The spin off Other Dust shows what happened on Earth after the event. Between the wandering nanocloud that's been hacked to mutate anyone it comes in contact with, said hacker being an impossibly powerful psionic who survived the Scream and now wants to watch the whole world burn, and the remnants of the fascist "Mandate" who are still around, things aren't great.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Numenera}}'': The setting, known as the Ninth World, takes place one billion years in the Earth's future after eight subsequent civilization arose, achieved incredible heights of power and technological sophistication, and vanished or collapsed. Fragments and leftovers of the previous worlds are littered everywhere -- vast machines, monoliths, ruined cities and ancient installations dot the landscape, desolate after millennia or more of abandonment, while nearly everything alive -- animal, plant, microbe -- is likely descended from or at least affected by the biotechnological experiments of bygone empires. Even the landscape and the weather bear the marks of the ancients, from artificial mountain ranges created for who knows what reasons to [[GreyGoo roving storms of nanomachines]] gone mad and feral after their creators disappeared. The Ninth World lives in the shadow of its past.

* ''Mutant Future'' is a close-as-you-can-get-it retroclone of post-apoc [=RPGs=] such as Gamma World using the Labyrinth Lord rules.

* ''Mutant - Year Zero'' : In this game, you play as one of The People - heavily mutated humans living in The Ark, a small and isolated settlement in a sea of chaos. The outside world is unknown to you, and so is your origin.

** It's intentionally vague, but the main constant is [[spoiler: not available at your security clearance, citizen.]]
** According to the second-edition corebook, [[spoiler:humanity retreated into the underground complexes to avoid a giant asteroid. Alpha Command, the computer that took care of day-to-day issues in human civilization, was damaged during the impact, and much of its data was lost. When it tried to boot up protocol files, it found an old '50s defense manual and assumed Communist sabotage, which it transmitted to the computers in charge of each complex - starting with Alpha Complex]].
* Palladium's flagship title, ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'', takes place a couple centuries after the apocalypse. On midnight of the Winter Solstice in the year 2098, two nations in South America engaged in a brief exchange of nuclear weapons, killing several million people. The sudden death of so many people, combined with the mystic timing of the event, caused the {{Ley Line}}s crisscrossing the Earth to surge with a power unseen since the disappearance of {{Atlantis}}. This caused a number of weather anomalies across the planet which caused more deaths, fueling the ley lines even further, resulting in a chain reaction of death and increasing magical power. Eventually, the magical level rose to the point that the ley lines started becoming unstable, causing the eponymous Rifts, holes in time and space, to tear open and pour forth aliens and monsters, causing even more death. By the end, 60% - 80% of the Earth's population had been wiped out, leading to a Dark Age that lasted roughly a century, where humanity clawed its way out of the chaos and horrors caused by the Coming of the Rifts. In the main setting, Earth is now a dimensional hub where magic and technology exist side-by-side, sometimes peacefully, often violently. Humanity has regained a few footholds here and there, alongside aliens and other creatures who are as much victims of the Rifts as the natives, trying to eke out an existence on a world gone mad.
** The supplement ''Chaos Earth'' takes place literally the day after it happens.

* The third edition of ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'', the ''New Era'' was set after the destruction of interstellar cvilization by a massive CivilWar followed up by the release of a homicidal ComputerVirus superweapon. The death toll was in the ''trillions''.

* TabletopGame/{{Mortasheen}}'s setting is implied to be our Earth after one of these, caused by the machinations of mad science.

* "Mutant - Year Zero" : In this game, you play as one of The People - heavily mutated humans living in The Ark, a small and isolated settlement in a sea of chaos. The outside world is unknown to you, and so is your origin.

* Creator/FantasyFlightGames released a whole series of [=RPGs=] set after the end, appropriately titled ''The End of the World'', with each of the four settings detailing a specific cause for the collapse of civilization; ''ZombieApocalypse'', ''EldritchAbomination[=/=]Wrath of the Gods'', ''AlienInvasion'', and ''RobotWar''.

* ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' had the D20 Apocalypse sourcebook, which covered After the End games with suggestions, extra rules and some discussion about different kinds of post-apocalyptic games (and had three example settings: Earth Inherited, a non-sectarian [[CaughtUpInTheRapture rapture]] setting where those that weren't righteous enough to be raptured or evil enough to be whisked straight to hell remained on Earth to witness battles between angels and demons and often rise to heights of heroism or fall to depraved depths in response, Atomic Sunrise, a classic post-nuclear war setting expanded on from one ''D20 Future'' setting called simply The Wasteland, and Plague World, a setting where a biological warfare alien invasion end up succumbing to their own weapons after thrashing human civilisation and the player characters are [[HumanPopsicle cryogenically frozen teams from just before the end meant to retake Earth once the main alien force departed).

* ''The Day After Ragnarok'', a setting book for both TabletopGame/SavageWorlds, HeroSystem, and now FATE Core. [[{{Ghostapo}} The Nazis]] managed to pull off a summoning ritual that pulled the Midgard Serpent into our reality, but before it could fully manifest, an American suicide team loaded the Trinity Device into a plane, rammed into the Serpent's eye, and detonated the bomb. The flailing around of a gargantuan serpent (whose head alone is 350 miles across) in its death throes while dripping magical radioactive snake venom from its fangs crushed most of western Europe and northern Africa.

* ''The Day After Ragnarok'', a setting book for both SavageWorlds, HeroSystem, and now FATE Core. [[{{Ghostapo}} The Nazis]] managed to pull off a summoning ritual that pulled the Midgard Serpent into our reality, but before it could fully manifest, an American suicide team loaded the Trinity Device into a plane, rammed into the Serpent's eye, and detonated the bomb. The flailing around of a gargantuan serpent (whose head alone is 350 miles across) in its death throes while dripping magical radioactive snake venom from its fangs crushed most of western Europe and northern Africa.

** For humans, we have the Age of Strife at the end of the Dark Age of Technology, where after defeating the soulless robots called the Men of Iron, humanity fractured into a million states before the GodEmperor of Mankind came and restored order; the Literature/HorusHeresy at the end of the Great Crusade, where fully half of the human race turned to worshiping demons and wiping out the other half, ending with the rebellious Horus dead and the Emperor on life support; the Age of Apostasy following the First Age of the Imperium, where [[TheCaligula the mad Goge Vandire]] drove the Imperium into self-destructive religious madness; and, arguably, the Time of Ending, which is going on right now. After each one, humanity recovered; after each, the recovery was less complete, and society became worse. There are quite likely at least a few apocalypses that have simply not been named.

** The Orks have fallen from a previous state of civilization, having inadvertently destroyed their Brainboy leaders and descended into murderously happy anarchy.
* ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' has Jupiter's moon Io, once a paradise inhabited by a beautiful and advanced people, now a diseased and toxic wasteland inhabited by their hideously mutated descendants. Evidently the Iotes did something to anger their Europan neighbours, but exactly what has never been made clear.
* The backstory of ''TabletopGame/AnimaBeyondFantasy'', suggests quite heavily the setting is the Earth in a more or less distant future after Man's civilization faded into oblivion for unknown reasons, and with it Man's memories too.

* The backstory of ''TabletopGame/AnimaBeyondFantasy'', suggests quite heavily the setting is the Earth in a more or less distant future after Man's civilization faded into oblivion for unknown reasons, and with it its memories.

* ''The Day After Ragnarok'', a setting book for both SavageWorlds, HeroSystem, and now FATE Core. [[{{Ghostapo}} The Nazis]] managed to pull off a summoning ritual that pulled the Midgard Serpent into our reality, but before it could fully manifest an American suicide team loaded the Trinity Device into a plane, rammed into the Serpent's eye, and detonated the bomb. The flailing around of a gargantuan serpent (whose head alone is 350 miles across) in its death throes while dripping magical radioactive snake venom from its fangs crushed most of western Europe and northern Africa.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}}'' is set on Earth after a devastating invasion of other-dimensional Horrors wiped out most living things on the surface and mutated what was left. The Horrors (mostly) returned to their home plane after the level of magic dropped too low for them to stay, allowing the survivors to re-emerge from their retreats and begin to repopulate the planet.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' is set in the future of Earthdawn, in 2070 our calendar, after a series of nasty magical cataclysms and wars (including a war between all the major continental European powers that ended with a massive nuclear airstrike on every nation's entire command structure by (presumably) England) and other disasters that created the politically-divided megacorporation-run CrapsackWorld it is.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' takes place after 3 different Ends, and is set at the EndOfAnAge. First was the Primordial War (named after the Primordials, the creators of the universe, who lose), involving the extinction of scores of civilizations and races; most of Creation was burned up by a sore loser's last act before surrendering. Then the [[{{Atlantis}} First Age]], which was ended by the Usurpation. Lastly, a plague made by a ghost of a Solar killed in the Usurpation killed 90% of the population, and was followed by a invasion of TheFairFolk, who succeeded in unmaking half of Creation (by area).\\