Is Shifters based on WhiteWolfs World of Darkness series Werewolf: The Apocalypse?
NO. Shifters is NOT based in WW WOD W:tA. To be honest, although I’ve heard of it, and even played it once or twice at conventions, I’ve never actually sat down and read the books. I know from others who have that W:tA basically appropriated most traditional werewolf mythos and spun it all into such a yarn that now anything remotely drawing on traditional werewolf legends is pretty much instantly branded a WOD rip-off. What Shifters IS loosly based off is the alternate reality suppliment for the Cyberpunk 2020 RPG called ” Night’s Edge”. Initially I didn’t want to set it so far in the future that everything was that dark and hopeless, and everyone was required to be chromed to get along in everyday life, ( and I didn’t feel I could adequately draw the tech ), but i’ve since kind of changed my mind, and I’m in the process of re-writing much of the story. I used ideas from cyberpunk, nights edge, traditional werewolf mythos, modern day therianthropy and some other personal preferences ba
