Shores of Night

 Hi, Welcome back to the Shores of Night, or welcome if you're new. My name is Grim, a nonbinary, autistic human who writes about a lot of things here.  As you know, I've been pondering work and earning money lately. Right now, I'm wondering what I can do to create a bit of passive income, a little trickle of money to help out. I think roleplaying material would be a better focus, probably in the form of small settings, interesting NPCs and the like. Starting with generic pieces, I thought I'd create a series of short supplements detailing women NPCs, treating them as both allies and potential antagonists. The initial focus would be historical. I'd detail Medieval, Victorian, and modern women, then expand into specific genres, like Fantasy, Cyberpunk and so on. Initially, I'd want to avoid clichéd figures, like witches and princesses, to avoid more obvious concepts and plot seeds. The point is to present rounded women with real concerns and inner lives for GMs t...

 Hello, Welcome to the Shores of Night, or welcome back if you are new. My name is Grim, a nonbinary, autistic human, and I talk about too many things here.  This time, I wanted to write about one of my characters, explaining a bit about his world and his origins in our world.  His name is Markov, and his world is meant to be a weird mix of Sword and Sorcery, Post-Apocalypse, and the sort of fantasy you find in video games like Skies of Arcadia , Tales of Symphonia , and films like Princess Mononoke and  Nausicaä Valley of the Wind .  His story began back when I was trying to commit to writing - which you may have gathered is a recurring activity for me. I'd created the basics of a roleplaying setting called Ironbound, using ideas around states modelled on ancient Greece, Persia, and other things. I'd determined that in the past - I've no idea how far into it - there'd been a magical war which had resulted in all the magic vanishing because the energy that...

 Hi, Welcome back to the Shores of Night, or welcome if you're new. My name is Grim, a nonbinary, autistic human, and this blog covers far too many things.  Content Warning: Abuse, Bullying and Mental Health This is a bit of a memoir I'll never write. Some pieces from my past which, sadly, still inform who I am. I've been in therapy since 2022, and a lot of that has been dealing with this shit.  I've never fit in anywhere. One of my first memories is being bullied on the playground because I didn't watch the He-Man cartoon (I know, the nerve ! How dare I?). It doesn't get much better after that. My childhood was a patchwork of bullying and abuse. At the second school I attended, things got so bad that I'd burst into tears at the start of the school year, and I threw up in the back of my Dad's car at least once. It didn't help that the teachers were also picking on me, and I'm pretty sure that this was the start of my developing depression and anx...