Ember is available for pre-purchase. The Early Access period for Ember is anticipated to begin in March, 2026.
Pre-Purchase Ember!
Purchases of "Ember Early Access" will automatically convert into full content licenses for Ember game access once the Early Access phase begins.
What is Ember
Ember is an unprecedented digital roleplaying experience for Foundry Virtual Tabletop. Designed for a Gamemaster and a group of players (3-5 players recommended), Ember is an imaginative and immersive open-world setting featuring an epic-length campaign, groundbreaking features, and game systems designed for online play.
What's Included
- Epic main story with years of gameplay
- Colossal open world of over 25,000 hexes
- Elegant character creation process
- Over 80 interactive and animated area maps
- Vista system for visual storytelling
- Codex to chronicle your achievements
- Dynamic and cinematic audio engine
- Imaginative fantasy setting and sandbox
- Unique playable ancestries and cultures
- Solar, lunar, and seasonal calendar system
- Non-linear quests and consequential choices
- Token maker with infinite variation
Epic Campaign and Event System
The Ember campaign consists of an epic main story with years of gameplay to explore in a colossal open world of over 25,000 hexes. The main campaign consists of forty overall quests that are all built using the same systems and methods available in the Event System and every quest in Ember is non-linear with every quest having at least a single choice and a consequence for how it ends, with most having three choices!
As a Gamemaster you can also create sprawling non-linear quests with branching choices and consequences or standalone events for one-off gameplay moments, encounters, or sessions! Associate each event with locations in the world, area maps for combat encounters, or created vista compositions.
Visual Storytelling with Vistas
Vistas are an innovative visual storytelling framework that captures your character’s first-person perspective and puts it directly into the game world. This immersive visualization of social and exploration encounters augments classic “theater of the mind” gameplay with a veritable “theater of the screen,” allowing you to roleplay alongside a spectacular cast of characters that can be controlled to move throughout each Vista.
Ember includes a total of 36 Vistas for the world’s signature biomes, locations, and iconic narrative moments, which are fully integrated with Ember’s calendar cycles – featuring stunning changes in lighting, effects, and animation.
You can even create your own vistas for immersive narrative moments with your own characters and questlines.
Design Characters with the Dynamic Token Maker
The Dynamic Token Maker empowers players to design their characters exactly how they'd like them with near infinite options for customization. It includes standard humanoid options as well as art specific to Ember's imaginative ancestries. It features beautiful artwork created by Devin Night who has also created the tokens for all of the creatures that appear in the Ember setting.
Game masters can take advantage of the Dynamic Token Maker to design their own NPCs and make similar combatants (like a group of goblins) more visually distinct.
Learn more about Ember by visiting our Ember overview page or by reading our Ember FAQ!
Two Systems?!
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.
Alpha and Beta Access
At a later date, you will have the option to upgrade your purchase of Ember to grant access to Alpha or Beta phases of pre-release testing. The earliest phases test phases of Alpha 1 and Beta 1 respectively are exclusive to Kickstarter backers, but we anticipate that the following upgrades will be available at a later date:
- Alpha 1 - Currently active and available to Kickstarter backers only
- Alpha 2 - Currently active and available to Kickstarter backers only
- Beta 1 - Expected October, 2025 - Available to Kickstarter backers only
- Beta 2 - Expected December, 2025 - Will be available as a paid upgrade
- Early Access - Expected to begin February, 2026 - What you get by purchasing this product
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Glass Cannon Network's Ember Actual Play
Our friends at the Glass Cannon network (GCN) played 4 sessions of Ember with Foundry VTT creator and Ember co-director Andrew Clayton as the Gamemaster!