Shores of Night

 Welcome to the blog, or welcome back if you're a regular reader. Thanks for stopping by. This is Shores of Night. On Sundays we talk about Werewolf: the Apocalypse , White Wolf's eco-horror roleplaying game. I talk about things within the game that interest me, explore areas which I think need to be considered, and sometimes try to make stuff.  Apologies for missing last week, life got in the way. I'm finding things a bit hard at present because I'm consuming too much news content and even though I'm in the UK, current events in the US are weighing heavily on my mind. It feels like life has become that much more difficult and, in the themes of Werewolf, that what's happening will only lead to the planet suffering more. It feels like our cities will become darker and less pleasant too, though perhaps not to the extent that they would be in the World of Darkness. At least we can be relatively sure that what's happening in the "real world" (if such a...

Welcome back to the blog, or welcome if you're new.  Apologies for the gap in posting, as you can tell I'm struggling to be consistent at the moment and life got in the way last weekend. Thank you for bearing with me, and thank you for reading – I know the world is very strange and chaotic at present and things aren't looking positive. I guess, though, that when life is hard escapism is incredibly tempting... so we might as well dive into our creations, right?  One thing we might wonder is how the world would look if things were different, if there was an element of the Fantastic within it. Magic, superpowers, advanced technology, supernatural creatures and other elements can, and must, alter the worlds they exist in – if we allow them to.  My feeling is that if they don't have some effect, why are they present at all? Let's talk about some things to consider when we introduce these elements to our creations.  I've chosen to consider these elements through so...