Ember is a digital roleplaying game that seamlessly blends traditional tabletop elements with video game features, designed to support Gamemasters and their players experience an epic, imaginative, and immersive open-world campaign. Ember offers groundbreaking systems that are optimized for online play, and is available for both Dungeons & Dragons 5.5e and Foundry VTT's brand new system, Crucible!
After our successful Kickstarter campaign, we have been working tirelessly to bring the finished Ember product to the masses on a timely release schedule.
Ember's full release is expected in late 2026. The most up to date release schedule can be found on the Ember Product Page.
Early Access enables you to begin playing Ember before its full release date, the Early Access period has already started! While this state of the product is closer to finished than previous Beta and Alpha states, several features may still be unfinished and some content will not be available, development is ongoing in this phase!
The Beta Access period has concluded and allowed users to play Ember's content several months before its full release date, though many features were unfinished and some content was unavailable as development was still occurring.
The Alpha Access period has concluded and allowed users to begin playing Ember a full year before its release, albeit with many unfinished features and some content unavailable as development was still occurring.
Yes! Ember Early Access is available from the Ember package page. Please be aware that this product is in an Early Access state and still undergoing development!
No upgrade is necessary, you should be able to Access Ember already as the Ember Early Access period has begun! If you have already purchased Ember and it is not showing in your available Premium Content please Contact Us.
Ember is being designed with two rulesets in mind: Dungeons & Dragons (2024) and Crucible — a bespoke system designed specifically for Foundry Virtual Tabletop. While the D&D version may remain compatible with the D&D 2014 rules, Ember is being designed with the 2024 rules in mind.
We love Pathfinder 2e, but we have made a thoughtful decision to focus on D&D Fifth Edition and Crucible as the two systems we can feasibly support. It's going to be a huge amount of effort to support dual-system compatibility, and the additional complexity of offering PF2E also is, unfortunately, beyond us at this time.
We are committed to delivering the best possible experience for these two systems. Once that is done, there's always the possibility to re-assess and explore additional options.
We aren't doing any official translations aside from English at this time, however Ember is created using all of the localization tools that Foundry Virtual Tabletop supports so the possibility is there to offer alternate language versions in the future!
The scope of Ember is vast though, so the cost of creating (and, importantly, maintaining) non-English translations would be significant. It's on our minds as something we hope to add when the time is right!
You will be able to use Vistas in any game world where you have the Ember module active — which requires the world to be using either the D&D 5e or Crucible game system.
We hope that eventually we can fully generalize the Vista engine to become part of the core Foundry Virtual Tabletop software so that every game system can use them (provided they have suitable art assets). The timeline on that could be lengthy though. It's much easier to build the Vista engine for the specific Ember use case than it is to build it generally for all use cases.