43AD is Zozer Games' gritty historical roleplaying game set in Roman Britain. It features excellent interior art, colour maps, a detailed and evocative setting that captures the feel of Roman army novels like those of Simon Scarrow. The rules are fast and bloody, character creation is likewise fast, creating easy to use Roman legionaries with a minimum of fuss. It's certainly a rules-light system, using the tried and tested mechanics used in an earlier (free) venture called Zenobia.

43AD is a gritty military-style game with a slice of dark horror running through it. Life is grim and the world of the native Britons is painted in dark and horrific colours. Britain is a place of fear and death, terrors and torments, and the Iron-Age tribes live with these horrors. Celtic priests, the druids, contain them in lakes and pits and forests. When the legions step onto British soil, they step onto a land of ancient horrors of which they (as yet) know nothing. Life, honour and warfare amongst the tribes is explained for players and GMs alike.

Characters are Roman soldiers, fighting for the emperor in a hostile land against the battle-hardened warriors of the tribes. This is the visible enemy, but beyond, should the Game Master wish to go there, lay the dark secrets of Britain, the night terrors, the death-bringing spirits of the wild, the night crawlers, the face eaters, the skinchangers and the rest of the monsters and wild things that infest Britain. The tribes themselves live in fear of these malign entitites. But at least they know of their existence! As the legions march into hostile territory, they think their toughest battles are going to be with blue-faced tribesmen. How little they know ...