Ember

Ember is an online tabletop roleplaying game of unprecedented scope from the creators of Foundry Virtual Tabletop. Ember is a game of open-world exploration in an imaginative fantasy setting featuring an epic-length campaign, groundbreaking features, and game systems designed for online play for a Gamemaster and group of players.

Ember is an online tabletop roleplaying game which is a hybrid between a tabletop RPG and a multiplayer digital game. It has all the elements of a traditional pen & paper RPG but is enhanced with features inspired by video games to create a compelling hybrid of dynamic gameplay and a classical foundation. It is a collaborative storytelling experience for a gamemaster and group of players. Ember has been made specifically to be played online in Foundry Virtual Tabletop and has a ton of additional features, systems, and mechanics to facilitate and enhance gameplay.

Ember is now available for pre-purchase for a price of $100 USD. Purchasing Ember provides a full lifetime license to the Ember game and allows you to participate in the Early Access period which is anticipated to begin in December 2025. Only the game session host needs to own Ember, all players at the table connect for free without needing to purchase the game.

We completed our successful Kickstarter for Ember in early October 2024. We are now working hard to make Ember available for our Alpha, Beta, and Early Access phases. Our anticipated timeline is the following:

• Alpha 1 - Anticipated January 2025
• Alpha 2 - Anticipated June 2025
• Beta 1 - Anticipated September 2025
• Beta 2 - Anticipated October 2025
• Early Access - Anticipated December 2025
• Full Release - Anticipated sometime in 2026

Ember is an original imaginative fantasy setting for digital roleplaying and a comprehensive epic-length campaign that takes place in that setting. It is not a game system. In Foundry Virtual Tabletop terms, it will be a premium content module.

There are two ways to play Ember; using the familiar Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition ruleset or using the innovative digital roleplaying system Crucible developed exclusively for Foundry Virtual Tabletop.

If you have not already purchased Ember, the most valuable thing you can do is to pre-purchase the Ember game and help fund its continued development. Otherwise, if you are unable to purchase or want ways to show more support, please help us spread the word about Ember within your circles and communities. Thank you!

Our team is fully committed to the continued development and improvement of Foundry Virtual Tabletop. Ember is being created by a (mostly) separate creative team from the development team making Foundry VTT itself. Ember provides us with a valuable test arena and incubator for new ideas - many of which end up making it into the core Foundry Virtual Tabletop software. Some of our key enhancements we delivered in Version 12 were first prototyped in Ember, and several of the big features being delivered in Version 13 have been already internally prototyped because of our work on Ember. We are working on making Ember and making Foundry Virtual Tabletop better at the same time!

Absolutely not. Our team of talented artists and developers are committed to crafting a vibrant and imaginative world using human-created artwork from start to finish of the creative process.