In Curseborne, you play as Accursed, descendants of monstrous lineages lurking in a modern world that closely resembles our own.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
March 2025 Update
about 1 year ago
– Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 07:18:42 AM
Hello Accursed,
It's the final Wednesday of the month, and that is Curseborne Day. So I've got our regular monthly update as well as Onyx Path's latest "Tasty Bit" antagonist for your game.
The Living Epoch
Everybody has regrets. That girl you never plucked up the courage to kiss. That job you never went for. That flight you had every intention of making, if only you hadn’t got drunk the night before.
Imagine you could do those things again, only do them right? Wouldn’t that be nice?
The living epoch offers you the chance for a do over. All you have to do is give up a part of yourself.
Now that the main book is all sorted based on your feedback and in final editing, the developers have really focused on the Tangled Webs supplement and that's zoomed through the writing process and now the approved manuscript is in one final round of development before heading to editing itself. I'll see if I can coax a preview or two from the team to share over the next few months.
If you need to review your information or pledge status, you can return to your survey by clicking the link in your survey email or requesting your survey link under "Lost your survey?" on our BackerKit project page at https://curseborne.backerkit.com
You can read Onyx Path's most recent monthly summary, covering all projects and their status up to that point here: <February 2025 Project Status Summary>
You can find the weekly Monday Meeting blog updates <here>, which note any projects with status changes since the previous Month End summary. The project statuses listed are current as of last Monday, so do check it out each Monday night to see if anything may have progressed!
I will continue to post regular updates every month until the final reward has gone out.
Remember: You can use the links at the bottom of this e-mail to unsubscribe from updates or Manage your notification settings. These status updates are available on the campaign page for you to review at any time.
Onyx Path Discussion Channels
If you've got questions about the rules or setting, or just want to discuss this game with other fans (as well as the Onyx Path writers and developers!), you can check out these Onyx Path discussion zones:
If you've got a question about your pledge or BackerKit page or any part of the process, you can contact me with any of these methods
Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
Via Kickstarter: Click RichardThomas under the "Created By" heading on the main page, and then press the "Contact Me" button - the message will come to me!
Via BackerKit: Click "Need Help?" from your page, and then fill in the Contact Us form. BackerKit will pass your message along to me.
Chosen by the gods, their power tempered only by human hearts, the Exalted are all that stand between Creation and the forces that would ruin the world. Set in a rich and intriguing setting that draws from real-world histories and fantasy archetypes, Exalted: Essence features streamlined rules for a new way of playing a classic game, incorporating story-focused action and a presentation designed to appeal to new players and longtime fans alike.
The Exalted: Essence Player’s Guide is a book chock full of player-facing content. Within, we’ll walk you through how to think about playing your character, what kind of person they might shape up to be, and how to consider their strengths and weaknesses as well as Intimacies and Virtues. Beyond advice for roleplaying, each chapter also contains dozens of new Charms for characters to take, shaping the outcome of your campaigns.
Unlike other Exalted books, this does not contain any new setting material. It’s all about your character and your campaigns. Most books also speak directly to the Storyteller, assuming they’re the person who does most of the reading. Not so here! If you’re a player in a game of Exalted, this book is for you. You don’t have to read the whole thing cover to cover, but the section that applies to your character has so much there for you.
Learn what it means to be Exalted.
February 2025 Update
about 1 year ago
– Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 04:58:45 AM
Hello Accursed,
It's the final Wednesday of the month, and that means it's Curseborne update day! It's the shortest month of the year, so we'll keep this update fairly quick (relatively). First up, this month's Curseborne Tasty Bit is now available on DriveThruRPG.com.
NEXUS
Some people have all the luck. Random circumstances always seem to favor them, and the odds are meaningless when it comes to how often randomness chooses them.
Nexuses have the most luck; unfortunately for them and everyone around them, it’s all bad. That bad luck makes them a magnet for stray curses, random catastrophes, and unlucky events. Anyone can be particularly unlucky without being a Nexus. But once a Nexus starts to accumulate curses, they transform from a normal person into a dangerous supernatural entity with few recourses other than death.
No one knows what makes a Nexus, but they do know the effects of one the moment it starts to gather strength. Bad luck follows them, as do random curses. As they move through the world, they draw curses toward them in a swirling flood, like water rushing down a drain. They stand at the epicenter of the most horrible shit you’ve ever seen, unable to help themselves or anyone caught up in the disasters surrounding them.
If you need to review your information or pledge status, you can return to your survey by clicking the link in your survey email or requesting your survey link under "Lost your survey?" on our BackerKit project page at https://curseborne.backerkit.com
You can read Onyx Path's most recent monthly summary, covering all projects and their status up to that point here: <January 2025 Project Status Summary>
You can find the weekly Monday Meeting blog updates <here>, which note any projects with status changes since the previous Month End summary. The project statuses listed are current as of last Monday, so do check it out each Monday night to see if anything may have progressed!
I will continue to post regular updates every month until the final reward has gone out.
Remember: You can use the links at the bottom of this e-mail to unsubscribe from updates or Manage your notification settings. These status updates are available on the campaign page for you to review at any time.
Onyx Path Discussion Channels
If you've got questions about the rules or setting, or just want to discuss this game with other fans (as well as the Onyx Path writers and developers!), you can check out these Onyx Path discussion zones:
If you've got a question about your pledge or BackerKit page or any part of the process, you can contact me with any of these methods
Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
Via Kickstarter: Click RichardThomas under the "Created By" heading on the main page, and then press the "Contact Me" button - the message will come to me!
Via BackerKit: Click "Need Help?" from your page, and then fill in the Contact Us form. BackerKit will pass your message along to me.
Final Days!
In Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars, your player characters are the crewmembers of a war rig, venturing into battles against people from far off countries, aligned to ideals different than their own, and trying to preserve their peace, their way of life, or their rich deposits of a new, bizarre energy source: condensed coal. Your characters — the crewmembers of these war rigs — are as likely to be enlisted crooks as they are commissioned officers; gung-ho patriots as common as conscripted people from the imperial powers’ colonies. They fight because they have to. But in the fear and fog of battle, bonds form, friendships and rivalries grow, and legends are made.
Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars takes place outside the Trinity Continuum's "Alpha" timeline -- the worlds explored from Aegis to Æon -- taking place in a parallel reality, setting the stage for new adventures and discoveries.
Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars contains:
A complete setting based on the acclaimed graphic novel Steam Wars® with writing by Larry Blamire.
Detailed rules on piloting, managing, and fighting massive coal-powered giant war rigs in a parallel 19th century.
Six different roles you can perform on a steam rig, along with more than half a dozen Alliances involving in the Second Steam War that you can fight, ally with, or sabotage.
Storyguide advice, secrets, hooks, and plots, to enable you to start your game of Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars
January 2025 Monthly Update
about 1 year ago
– Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 10:31:57 AM
Hello Accursed,
We start off regular monthly updates for 2025 in pretty standard form. We'll review our rewards still pending, we'll confirm which rewards have been distribued, and we'll have links to find more information, to discuss this project, and notes on how to contact me. We'll also have a new feature every month for 2025 - a new bit of content available for Curseborne each month!
On the last Wednesday of each month - coincidentally on the day that I'll regularly use to post our monthly Kickstarter updates - Onyx Path releases a "Tasty Bit" supplement; these snack-sized treats add a bit of fun to your game. For 2025, they'll be focused on adding material for Curseborne, and the first one is now available in PDF at DriveThruRPG.com
The Doppleganger
The Doppelganger presents the first in a year of monthly adversaries for the Curseborne RPG. Within these pages, you’ll find a new shapeshifting, identity destroying threat known as the doppelganger.
Alongside traits and powers aimed at different tiers of play, this book includes a selection of story seeds and hooks so you can create one or more sessions of play surrounding the doppelganger adversary.
The developers have concluded their work incorporating all of our feedback into the Curseborne manuscript and it is now revised and back to the Editing stage. I'll post teasers whenever something becomes available and look forward to watching the dots fill in over the next months as the Onyx Path team works to get the backer PDF to us later this year.
Work has also begun on the Tangled Webs supplement, with writers contracted and working on their first drafts! More fun ahead!
If you need to review your information or pledge status, you can return to your survey by clicking the link in your survey email or requesting your survey link under "Lost your survey?" on our BackerKit project page at https://curseborne.backerkit.com
You can read Onyx Path's most recent monthly summary, covering all projects and their status up to that point here: <December 2024 Project Status Summary>
You can find the weekly Monday Meeting blog updates <here>, which note any projects with status changes since the previous Month End summary. The project statuses listed are current as of last Monday, so do check it out each Monday night to see if anything may have progressed!
I will continue to post regular updates every month until the final reward has gone out.
Remember: You can use the links at the bottom of this e-mail to unsubscribe from updates or Manage your notification settings. These status updates are available on the campaign page for you to review at any time.
Onyx Path Discussion Channels
If you've got questions about the rules or setting, or just want to discuss this game with other fans (as well as the Onyx Path writers and developers!), you can check out these Onyx Path discussion zones:
If you've got a question about your pledge or BackerKit page or any part of the process, you can contact me with any of these methods
Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
Via Kickstarter: Click RichardThomas under the "Created By" heading on the main page, and then press the "Contact Me" button - the message will come to me!
Via BackerKit: Click "Need Help?" from your page, and then fill in the Contact Us form. BackerKit will pass your message along to me.
Now Funding!
In Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars, your player characters are the crewmembers of a war rig, venturing into battles against people from far off countries, aligned to ideals different than their own, and trying to preserve their peace, their way of life, or their rich deposits of a new, bizarre energy source: condensed coal. Your characters — the crewmembers of these war rigs — are as likely to be enlisted crooks as they are commissioned officers; gung-ho patriots as common as conscripted people from the imperial powers’ colonies. They fight because they have to. But in the fear and fog of battle, bonds form, friendships and rivalries grow, and legends are made.
Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars takes place outside the Trinity Continuum's "Alpha" timeline -- the worlds explored from Aegis to Æon -- taking place in a parallel reality, setting the stage for new adventures and discoveries.
Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars contains:
A complete setting based on the acclaimed graphic novel Steam Wars® with writing by Larry Blamire.
Detailed rules on piloting, managing, and fighting massive coal-powered giant war rigs in a parallel 19th century.
Six different roles you can perform on a steam rig, along with more than half a dozen Alliances involving in the Second Steam War that you can fight, ally with, or sabotage.
Storyguide advice, secrets, hooks, and plots, to enable you to start your game of Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars
December 2024 Monthly Update
over 1 year ago
– Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 08:29:19 AM
Hello Accursed,
Welcome to our December 2024 Update! As a reminder, we'll have an update posted near the end of each month (I'm posting this a bit early to get out in front of the holiday and the liminal space between Christmas and New Year's Day).
Curseborne at Pax Unplugged
The Onyx Path team started off December by attending Pax Unplugged! The spotlight was on Curseborne, and the Onyx Path booth was set up to showcase the game and run lots of demos. One of the promo items they gave away were the five tarot card designs – one for each Lineage – with art by Priscilla Kim featured on the front! I'm hoping these pictures find their way into the core book!
I've heard that the Onyx Path developers have taken all of your comments during the campaign and have portioned it out between them so they're making sure all feedback is considered. Even as they're doing that, they're also working on scheduling monthly "Curseborne Tasty Bits" for 2025 that will feature new antagonists and other items of interest to add to your Curseborne game. I'll highlight those each month in our regular update.
Monthly Updates
I'll send these updates out every month to let you know where we sit. We're still in the earliest stages of this post-campaign, where projects make incremental movements along the progress path. A lot of months will be pretty similar, just a quick note to let you know that the Onyx Path team is still working on it. Any time we have a new reward or something of interest to share, I'll include that as well.
At the end of each month, I'll include a summary of our rewards and their current status (they'll either be delivered or marked as still pending, possibly with additional details if I know more). I'll also list any relevant Update posts, in case you want to go back and check into something.
Each month, I'll list our "Pending" rewards and our "Delivered" rewards. We'll track the project status of our pending rewards by filling in the stage dots, and I'll note which update (and include a link) with each delivered reward, in case you want to go back and re-read the relevant update for more information. If any of these rewards were on your pledge list, you can access download codes in your BackerKit Digital Rewards page. And once they've been added to your DriveThruRPG library, you can access them through your DTRPG digital library at any time.
Rewards Still Pending
I'm eager to spend 2025 filling in dots and distributing some rewards. Still a long way to go and many dots to fill, but I'll have an update every month to ensure we're all on the same page and tracking progress.
If you need to review your information or pledge status, you can return to your survey by clicking the link in your survey email or requesting your survey link under "Lost your survey?" on our BackerKit project page at https://curseborne.backerkit.com
You can read Onyx Path's most recent monthly summary, covering all projects and their status up to that point here: <November 2024 Project Status Summary>
You can find the weekly Monday Meeting blog updates <here>, which note any projects with status changes since the previous Month End summary. The project statuses listed are current as of last Monday, so do check it out each Monday night to see if anything may have progressed!
I will continue to post regular updates every month until the final reward has gone out.
Remember: You can use the links at the bottom of this e-mail to unsubscribe from updates or Manage your notification settings. These status updates are available on the campaign page for you to review at any time.
Onyx Path Discussion Channels
If you've got questions about the rules or setting, or just want to discuss this game with other fans (as well as the Onyx Path writers and developers!), you can check out these Onyx Path discussion zones:
If you've got a question about your pledge or BackerKit page or any part of the process, you can contact me with any of these methods
Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
Via Kickstarter: Click RichardThomas under the "Created By" heading on the main page, and then press the "Contact Me" button - the message will come to me!
Via BackerKit: Click "Need Help?" from your page, and then fill in the Contact Us form. BackerKit will pass your message along to me.
I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday and year end, and I'll be back in 2025 to hopefully fill in more dots in our chart and sending out rewards to backers!
Reward Distribution - Existing Digital Rewards Going Out to Backers!
over 1 year ago
– Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 07:45:57 AM
If you haven't yet filled out your backer survey, please do so as soon as possible - you can change it or update it right up until the books are printing and we're getting ready to ship. We use the Pledge Manager for all reward fulfillment, so having your backer page set up ensures you'll be getting your rewards in a timely manner.
If you need to review your information or pledge status, you can return to your survey by clicking the link in your survey email or requesting your survey link under "Lost your survey?" on our BackerKit project page at https://curseborne.backerkit.com
Many of the rewards for our Kickstarter projects take a lot of time and effort to complete. Usually, the campaign is a means of moving the project from an idea (even when it's a mostly-fully-written idea) into the actual channel that turns it into a project/product. It'll be a while before we're ready to talk about delivery of the Curseborne RPG, and likely even longer for our Stretch Goal supplements.
That said, there are a few rewards that are available now, as they were mostly add-on pre-orders or bundles of existing products. And now we can work on getting those out to you over the weekend.
The following Add On Rewards WillBe Distributed This Week:
Storypath Ultra Core Manual Draft Manuscript
The World Below Backer PDF
At the Gates Draft Manuscript
They Came from the RPG Anthology Draft Manuscript
They Came From Digital Starter Bundle
Scion Second Edition Digital Starter Bundle
Trinity Continuum Digital Starter Bundle
It's basically this section from our Add On menu during the campaign.
Since the Storypath Ultra Core Manual, They Came From the RPG Anthology! and At The Gates are still in development, anyone who added the pre-order to their rewards list will receive the draft manuscript for those projects. As with our draft manuscript, there are still rounds of editing and development that the text is going through or has gone through, but you can consider it about 95% there.
For The World Below, the Backer PDF became available just as our Kickstater ended! Great timing! For those who added the pre-order to their rewards list, the World Below Backer PDF is the first release for that book, but is going through one final errata and correction pass, so you may see some Page XX references or minor spelling mistakes. These are being corrected before the final version of the PDF is released, and you'll be able to download the latest version from your DriveThru digital library once it's available.
In addition, the three Storypath system digital starter bundles will have the PDF redemption codes going out. There are multiple titles included in each bundle so lots of rewards going out despite a short list.
If you want any of these and didn't add them on during the campaign, you can still update your BackerKit page and add them to your rewards list. See the BackerKit How-To instructions above.
REWARD DISTRIBUTION
Your link to claim these digital rewards will be sent out by our BackerKit pledge manager over the nextfew days. Since we are using our partners at DriveThruRPG as the hosts for these, you will need to set up a DriveThru account if you don't have one already. If you encounter any problems with downloading your rewards, please contact DTRPG's customer service to resolve the matter, they've always been top-rated for customer service. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/contact_us.ph
Thebest way to ensure these redemption codes work smoothly is to log in to your DTRPG account first, and then click (or copy) the link shown in your BackerKit.
Again, you will receive an e-mail from BackerKit with links for these rewards over the next 1-2 days if any of them are on your expected list of rewards. I'll be releasing them in waves, so don't panic if you only see a couple links at first... the rest are coming. (We're in a digital world, but there are still a lot of manual processes. And there are manylinks to go out!!)
The easiest way to see if you've got digital downloads available is to login to your backerkit account: https://curseborne.backerkit.com and it'll show anything available. Your backerkit account should also confirm all rewards that you should expect from your reward tier selected.
DRAFT MANUSCRIPT
In addition to redemption links for these digital rewards, all backers have received a link to the compiled draft manuscript. This link can be found in your BackerKit digital rewards page, and you likely received an e-mail linking to that yesterday. Again, this isn't a new iteration of the game, it's just all of the pieces we shared during the campaign put together in order with a handful of minor tweaks.
The next version we'll see for the game will be when the Backer PDF is ready for distribution, and we'll see what updates have been made and have another opportunity to submit feedback.
MONTHLY UPDATES
With the Pledge Manager up and running, next month I'll have our first "regular" update for our project. I'll send these updates out every month to let you know where we sit. We're still in the earliest stages of this post-campaign, where projects make incremental movements along the progress path. A lot of months will be pretty similar, just a quick note to let you know that the Onyx Path team is still working on it. Any time we have a new reward or something of interest to share, I'll include that as well.
At the end of each month, I'll include a summary of our rewards and their current status (they'll either be delivered or marked as still pending, possibly with additional details if I know more). I'll also list any relevant Update posts, in case you want to go back and check into something.
Each month, I'll list our "Pending" rewards and our "Delivered" rewards. We'll track the project status of our pending rewards by filling in the stage dots, and I'll note which update (and include a link) with each delivered reward, in case you want to go back and re-read the relevant update for more information. If any of these rewards were on your pledge list, you can access download codes in your BackerKit Digital Rewards page. And once they've been added to your DriveThruRPG library, you can access them through your DTRPG digital library at any time.
That's for December, though. For now, enjoy these Add On rewards!
ONYX PATH PROJECT TRACKING
You can read Onyx Path's most recent monthly summary, covering all projects and their status up to that point here: <October 2024 Project Status Summary>
You can find the weekly Monday Meeting blog updates <here>, which note any projects with status changes since the previous Month End summary. The project statuses listed are current as of last Monday, so do check it out each Monday night to see if anything may have progressed!
I will continue to post regular updates every month until the final reward has gone out.
ONYX PATH DISCUSSION CHANNELS
If you've got questions about the rules or setting, or just want to discuss this game with other fans (as well as the Onyx Path writers and developers!), you can check out these Onyx Path discussion zones:
If you've got a question about your pledge or BackerKit page or any part of the process, you can contact me with any of these methods
Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
Via Kickstarter: Click RichardThomas under the "Created By" heading on the main page, and then press the "Contact Me" button - the message will come to me!
Via BackerKit: Click "Need Help?" from your page, and then fill in the Contact Us form. BackerKit will pass your message along to me.
The Alchemical Exalted are the Chosen of the Machine God, biomechanical demigods forged from divine metal and heroic souls. They do not rule the Eight Nations, but serve as Champions of the people, a sacred duty greater than any ambition. The eldest of Alchemicals transcend their human forms to become metropoli, living cities that offer the Eight Nations a stronghold against Autochthonia’s perils.
The Realm of Brass and Shadows is unforgiving, and the Eight Nations find themselves faced with many challenges: cataclysmic upheavals of Autochthon’s world-machinery, incursions of gruesome techno-organic gremlins, and the ever-present threat to their livelihoods. All the while, the slumbering Autochthon grows ever sicker, his corrupting Blight metastasizing throughout his world-body. Despair not. There is work to be done.
Alchemicals: Forged by the Machine God is an expansion for the ExaltedThird Edition tabletop roleplaying game. It’s set in a mythic world where spirits walk openly among humanity, warring demigods topple kingdoms, and the restless dead roam on moonless nights. Heroes granted divine power contend against one another for the future of Creation. These are the Exalted!
