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.

We are thrilled to announce that Ember is coming to Kickstarter on September 3, 2024. Backing on Kickstarter will get you the complete Ember product, exclusive early access, and additional exciting companion content. The Kickstarter campaign will run for 30 days until October 2, 2024. Supporting the project on Kickstarter is so valuable to us in helping to fund continued development of the product and to show support for the innovative work that our creative team is doing. During the month that Ember is on Kickstarter you will learn a lot more about the project, its signature features, timelines, and our team’s approach to development.

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.

Ember will be a paid product with a licensing model similar to Foundry Virtual Tabletop and other premium content on our platform. The Gamemaster who is running Foundry Virtual Tabletop needs to own Ember, but players can connect and play in a game of Ember for free. The price point for Ember will be announced during the Kickstarter campaign.

Ember will be available to purchase directly from us in the future if you do not back the project on Kickstarter.

Kickstarter is the only way to get certain rewards - specifically alpha, or beta test access to Ember which is only available to Kickstarter backers. Additionally, the price of Ember will be discounted for Kickstarter backers who can get Ember at lower cost by supporting early. All other features or products will be available both during and after Kickstarter.

A successful Kickstarter campaign will allow us to realize Ember's full potential by helping us to fund the development of certain amazing features that we would be otherwise unable to prioritize or accomplish otherwise. You will learn more about what these targets and goals are during the Kickstarter.

The most valuable things you can do to help us are to spread the word and raise awareness of Ember as a project. Please follow our Kickstarter page to be reminded as soon as the campaign goes live. Your support is very appreciated and important to us. If you are able to pledge to the Kickstarter campaign, it makes a big difference in helping to set the project up for success. If you are unable to pledge but still want to show support, please help us spread the word. 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!