The third, 'Shambling 101', is the game system, including combat because there is plenty of that in a game like this. The second chapter, 'Survivors', is character generation, skills, and pregenerated archetypes.
The first chapter is setting information, 'The Dead Rise' which contains a fiction introduction and a description of what roleplaying games are about and what AFMBE is about, along with elements like dice notation etc. There are six chapters to the book and an appendix (character sheet, glossary, skill list, source material). The book is written in a style that is informal without become chatty, and provides information in a manner that is lucid and fairly precise. The table of contents is minimal, but there is a four page index. There is little waste in white-space yet page numbers and chapter titles are also mostly clear. Text is provided in two-columns, justified, with a serif font with boxed elements. Interior greyscale art is also of the same quality but almost invariably as filler art rather than being contextually bound (the sample characters are an obvious exception). The cover art is, unsurprisingly, a bunch of rampaging zombies of average technique. Two of its fiction supplements (Prometheus Unwound and The Book of All Flesh) have won Origins awards.ĪFMBE comes in a 232 page B5 sized hardback with good stitching.
In any case, AFMBE has been a hit and because RPGs are awesome and cutting edge, was published in 1999 before the rest of the world caught up. Despite some claims to the contrary, it seems that popular culture has not tired of the zombie apocalypse setting, which really kicked off with 28 Days Later in 2002 and The Walking Dead comic series in 2003. The first edition of All Flesh Must Be Eaten (AFMBE) is perhaps the most well-known roleplaying contemporary implementation of survival roleplaying game settings, perhaps mainly because of its main antagonist component zombies.
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