Post Apocalyptic Guide- PDFs and Books of Tables

Looking at pdf and book titles for Post-Apocalypse settings on Drive Thru RPG.

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Starting Points

Titles with random tables for post-apocalypse settings.

In a post-apocalyptic setting, something bad has happened and the world is doing it's best to cope. Nuclear war, climate change, zombie apocalypse, aliens, killer robots, magical storms could all cause one.

They are often populated by desperate survivors, mutated creatures,

Examples include Mad Max, Fallout, the Matrix and many zombie movies. Many fantasy worlds have post-apocalypse.

There is also a Post-Apocalyse Generators Guide.

Aug 2025: Added solo and zombie sections. Oct 2024: Added more titles. Feb 2024: Added more titles

Major Titles

Daniel Roos has Post-Apocalyptic Loot with 800 main results by categories and more subtables.
Ashes Without Number from Sine Nomine Publishing is an old school rpg dedicated to post-apocalyptic settings, with huge support for random tables. It has sci-fi, cyberpunk and fantasy companions.
From dicegeeks are Book of Random Tables: Post-Apocalyptic filled with d100 tables of items, encounters, characters and more.
The Roadwarrior Bundle is from Gregorous21778 with titles for vehicles, names and marauders
The Metamorphica Revised from Chthonstone Games has hundreds of mutations, a frequent part of post-apocalyptic games.

Solo RPGs

One option without a group is to explore the post-apocalyptic world in solo mode. Rust Never Sleeps is a grung mecha solo rpg on itch.io. And Lay on Hands is a storytelling game about a gifted healer.

Heart of Ice is a legendary diceless gamebook from Fabled Lands Publishing by Dave Morris. In a future ice-age earth, you search for the Heart of Volent to reshape the world.
The Quiet Year from Buried Without Ceremony is a map game, detailing the struggles of a community in a post-apocalyptic setting, as they attempt to build something in a quiet year before trouble arrives.
Gamebooks are an alternative to solo rpgs with oracle or journals. From PenguinComics is Random Solo Adventure: Post Apocalypse - Solo Gamebook, taking a romp through a wasteland of the world that was.
Glide from Sleepy Sasquatch Games is a solo game about desert wastes on a planet, hoping to restore it's past splendour.

Free and Pay What You Want Options

Failed Fallout Shelters from Kai Pütz a.k.a Gregorius21778 is pay-what-you-want and has random tables for what you find in a ruined fallout shelter.
Ashes Without Number: Free Edition from Sine Nomine Publishing is an old school rpg dedicated to post-apocalyptic settings. The free edition has most of the tables and rules of the full version.
49 Lists for Atopic Punk 2160 from Felbrigg Herriot fits the theme, with 49-themed lists for post-apocalpyse games.,
Post Apocalyptic Items d100 from dicegeeks contains junk found in the ruins of civilisations. (last time I checked this was also free)
30 Useless Mutations from Per Aspera Games has a print version.

Smaller Titles

For curios and imaginative elements Skirmisher Publishing has 100 Oddities for a Wasteland with examples in the title blurb. They also have Artifacts of the Wastelands for more options
100 Scavenged Provisions for all Post Apoc RPGs from Grinning Skull Studios focuses on the survival aspect of a post-apocalyptic game.
Lee's Lists has 100 Post-Apocalyptic Encounters with examples in the title blurb.
350 Post Apocalptic Treasures - Vol 1 from D10 Dimensions has lists for treasures in groups including Gas Station, Wild Animals, Outdoors and Cabins. Beyond Cyber City - 100 Roadside Treasures also fits the same vibe.
From Atelier Clandestin is 200 Post Apocalytic Odd Situations, with d20 tables spread across locations. They also publish a Post Apocalyptic Vault Generator.

Zombie Apocalypse

A specific type of apocalypse is one filled with zombies. Also an overlap with the Horror guides.

100 Useful Scavenged Items from a Zombie Apocalypse from Grinning Skull Studios gives you things to pick up to help against hungry zombies.
Revenant by Killian Gillespie is an rpg written for solo (or coop/group), playing a reanimated character in a post-apocalyptic future. Using similar system to Ironsworn: Starforged.
A zombie Post-Apocalyptic setting from EDGE is the Zombie Apocalypse. Part of a series

Other Titles

There is a series of 100 post-apocalyptic encounters for different terrains from Azukail Games, starting with 100 Encounters for the Post-Apocalyptic Plains. Plus ones for Coast, Desert, Forest, Hills, Jungle, Mountain, Ocean, Rivers and Swamp
From Fishwife Games is 50 Mutated Coastal Encounters, to provide adventure options by the post-apocalyptic sea. They have a whole category of Post-Apocalyptic Lists.
Also worth mentioning are a series of RPGs specific to Post-Apocalyptic settings. EDGE Studio has a series called End of the World. There are scenarios for Robot Revolt, Alien Invasion, Zombie Apocalypse and Wrath of the Gods.
Gregrius21778 has a Post-Apocalypse Names Bundle which includes tribes, characters, settlements and antagonists.
Barbarians of the Ruined Earth from DIY RPG Productions is a rpg inspired by Thudarr the Barbarian, mixing in Mad Max and Pirates of Dark Water. With support from some random tables