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I'm a little disappointed at the lack of official Oracle Curses in the game. I see there's the typical blind, deaf, rotting, and a few coming from specific player companions, but hoping for more options.
Wondering what the most recent curse from a player companion or other source may have been, and if there is teasing/expectations for a new one (s) from an upcoming source I'm unaware of.
Horror Realms had a lot of curses based on the corruptions in HA. I like them.
Is there an official (or fan-made) catalog of "this feature is found in ___ source"? Like, for someone looking only for new bloodlines, oracle curses, ___ class archetypes, etc but who doesn't religiously check on every campaign setting, player companion, etc due to lack of expectation? I feel that would be helpful, since I'm aware it's kind of crossing the line to ask "hey, tell me the specifics about X, Y, and Z from a specific resource book", as it's cheating unless you come by the content legally, so I'd like a method to preemptively be made aware of desirable content in certain resource books, so I don't overlook anything juicy.
I certainly overlooked Horror Realms due to thinking it was merely filled with *atmosphere* for a horror campaign, that I had it all in Horror Adventures, and I've seen posts where ppl skimmed Horror Realms and mistook the Oracle Curses for a rehashing of the basic afflictions from Horror Adventures because they greatly resembled the afflictions
You can check d20pfsrd. It lists 3pp curses as well, but all of the first-party ones have a byline indicating what book they are found in... although I'm not seeing Horror Realms in that list at all.
I find d20pfsrd a good source in general to see what books random things are in (and then consult the books themselves for actual information, as the d20pfsrd site files off world lore for legal reasons, so you're missing the flavor behind the option). The book that each option is sourced from is always denoted somewhere on the page.
Yeah, that's the reason I asked in such a way, cuz specifically with Oracle Curses (I'm sure there are other examples) after Albatoonoe answered about Horror Realms curses, I knew for certain some were missing, and thus d20 is not as reliable as I thought. (Not a huge fan of 3rd party content, only really when I'm trying to homebrew and my objective is quite close to what a 3rd party source has generated) not to.mention I haven't a clue how quickly content is added to d20.
Heck, still on topic I suppose, the APG doesn't do its best to explain the fluff/flavor/lore on Oracle curses, if the nature of being an oracle comes from divine beings (in most cases) why are the "vessels for their power" cursed, and what's the fluff behind one oracle having a specific different curse than another oracle?