#curseborne

I went to the section on Lineages to read up on the character types you get to play in the game.

THIS SECTION FUCKING NEVER TURNS IT OFF

These are different characters.

SHUT UP SHUT UP

Y'all I am so excited for this anthology like you have NO IDEA. Accursed Tales is out to Curseborne backers, so if you backed that @theonyxpath campaign, go check your inbox!

In just my story alone, we got:

Lesbian polycule ✅️

Trans MC but not A Trans Story* ✅️

Queer vengeance ✅️

Northern Appalachia/NEPA ✅️

Rural queers ✅️

And there is a whole other anthology — 11 other stories! — to read which are overall So So Queer, it fucking rocks.

*the story isn't about Coming Out or other Typical Approved Trans Stories, which are great and all but that's not what I wanted to write

More on content warnings for this anthology under the cut:

If you’re a fan of White Wolf’s and Onyx Path’s work on the World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness then you’ll like this new take on the concept.

If you haven’t heard of WoD or CofD but like horror TTRPGs then you’ll also really like this game.

Curseborne is an urban horror game set in modern day where curses haunt every corner of the world. Crossing a bridge without paying tribute to the spirit of the lake results in you nearly drowning that night. Not knocking on the wooden frame to the door to the library results in a nasty infestation of silverfish in your bag as you leave. These are minor curses one could avoid through proper ritual although plenty of people know best to avoid such situations. Going into the abandoned home of a serial killer obviously will bring bad mojo, so would handling the gun of a damned priest. Best way not to get cursed is to avoid it all entirely.

But keep in mind, not every curse is some minor inconvenience or annoyance. Not every tragedy is caused by the web of curses that enravel everything. Your wife dying in a car crash could just be sheer coincidence as much as it could’ve been a curse, but if her death was the result of a curse, consider her lucky. There are curses out there that do far worse than kill you, curses that fundamentally change your very existence. If you are a victim of one of these greater curses then you have been warped into a supernatural creature: an Accursed.

You could be a ghost, trapped to possess their corpse like a zombie. A hungry vampire, craving the emotions of the living along with their blood and flesh. An outcast from another realm, made to take the guise of a human to hide your angelic or demonic features. A shapeshifter, turning into a bestial creature guided by their primal instincts. A sorcerer who finds and manipulates the very magic found where curses dwell to an obsessive degree. Whatever it is you are, you are cursed and now belong to a family of similarly damned people, who in turn belong to lineage of the same curse.

While you may be damned, you can pull the curses around you and weave them into magic spells to use in this dark world. Monster hunters stalk you for answers, doorways to other dimensions litter wherever you step and monsters greater and crueler than you will find and destroy you. And this is conjunction with the insanity of the normal world as well. Corrupt cops, violent riots, gang warfare and the dangerous of being a human still pose threats to the accursed. Best to stick alongside your family or even other accursed as you navigate this curse infested world.