Curseborne

For our final look at the Dead, we veer out of the ordinary (if there is any such thing as an ordinary Dead) and into the stranger version of the Dead’s urge. All Dead have the urge to evoke an emotion in someone, and must indulge regularly or lose themselves. But the urge doesn’t care … Read more

One of the most popular questions from people commenting on our Curseborne blogs and on the Onyx Path Discord is whether the Curseborne core book will contain “global adversaries”, or – to put it another way – grand conspiracies, organized opposition groups, and factions to rail against. In many ways, a character’s family and more … Read more

In our first look at Dead, we learned what makes a Dead, and heard from Sam about their Damnation and what it’s like to be a ghost who haunts their own dead body. The Dead are organized into Families around the emotion they want to invoke in others. The urge simply drives them to create … Read more

Our last Lineage to share is the Dead. This Lineage is an interesting one, because it is a concept that many people have expressed interest in, but one that I don’t think I’ve ever seen done quite this way in media. I’ve certainly seen ghost stories where the focus of the story is on the … Read more

We’ve talked about what Curseborne is, who the characters are, what kinds of places the world has in it, and what kind of creatures inhabit it. The last pressing question that must be on your minds is “What do the characters do in the game?” We’ve used the words creepypasta, street level, and urban horror … Read more

In last week’s blog entry on the Hungry of Curseborne, we talked about the outcast emotion vampires of the Black Hearts. This week we’ll cover a third family, a consanguineous demonic cult that consumes souls and worships a demon for the benefit of others, or so they tell themselves. They are… The Vorare In the … Read more

There’s one kind of liminal space we’ve not covered at all, and it’s known as an epoch. A few people have been asking about how Curseborne might expand to grander schemes, conspiracies, and worlds of horror, and an epoch is one such way. Epochs The strangest of liminalities and also the hardest to access are … Read more

Qualities and Dread Powers Since our blog on Red Riding Hood – a very popular idea for a Curseborne adversary, it seems – we’ve had a lot of questions about how adversaries function in the game. Let’s keep our focus on Red Riding Hood for a moment and explore the powers that particular creature has … Read more

In our previous blog entry on the Hungry of Curseborne, we explored what the Hungry are and the self-appointed vampire nobles of House Báthory. Today, we go in a starkly different direction, a family of rebels who crave emotions. These Hungry obsess over humanity and hate other Hungry with a passion, and both lead them … Read more