If you have been quietly missing the dingy, doom-soaked corners of old World of Darkness, Onyx Path has something for you. The studio's modern horror RPG Curseborne is up on BackerKit with a printed softcover Jumpstart called The Wolf You Feed, and the campaign closes on 5 May 2026. As of writing, it has cleared $5,470 against a $500 goal with 306 backers, so the only question now is how many extras Onyx Path can pile on before the timer runs out.
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Set up your group for freeThe Jumpstart is 80 full-colour pages and includes pre-made characters, the rules you actually need, an introductory missing-girl mystery, and plot seeds for follow-up sessions. A digital pledge is $3, the printed softcover is $10, and bundle tiers go up to $60 if you want the core rulebook in print as well. Backers get their books before retail.
What makes Curseborne worth a look is the system's elegant fix to a long-standing genre headache. Where Chronicles of Darkness, Onyx Path's previous urban horror line, kept its vampires, werewolves and mages on separate but awkwardly compatible chassis, Curseborne builds everything on Storypath Ultra and slots all its monstrous protagonists into one shared engine. The Accursed are split across five lineages: the vampiric Hungry, the shapeshifting Primal, the otherworldly Outcasts, the spellweaving Sorcerers, and the ghostly Dead. Across those five there are 31 playable archetypes, all able to share a table without the GM rebuilding the rules.
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See how it worksThe Wargamer write-up sums it up: this captures the depressing inhumanity of classic World of Darkness with a slightly crunchier dice engine. Onyx Path has been building Curseborne for years (the core rulebook PDF is already on DriveThruRPG), and the Jumpstart looks like the cheapest way to test-drive it before the full retail printing arrives.
If you fancy running a one-shot to see whether your group can stomach urban horror over Friday night beers, this is a tidy entry point. UK groups looking for fellow Accursed can find a local RPG community to share the misery.
Sources: Wargamer | Onyx Path - Curseborne | BackerKit Campaign | Cannibal Halfling Gaming
