Charm & Ember Has Gone Digital

Well, we did it.

Charm & Ember has officially gone digital.

For years, our focus has been creating physical tabletop miniatures that are affordable, fun to paint, and actually useful at the table. Our monthly Miniature Subscription grew out of that idea: build themed encounters, make cool miniatures, and get them into the hands of more players and Game Masters.

Now, we are taking the next step.

Charm & Ember is officially releasing digital STL miniatures, including individual STL packs, past monthly collections, and a brand-new Monthly STL Miniature Subscription for people who want to print the adventure themselves.

The Charm & Ember Monthly STL Miniature Subscription

Our physical Miniature Subscription is not going anywhere.

This is something new.

The Charm & Ember Monthly STL Miniature Subscription takes the same themed monthly collections we create for our physical subscribers and delivers them as downloadable 3D-printable STL files.

Every month brings a new collection built around a complete fantasy encounter, faction, or adventure theme.

That can include:

• Themed enemy miniatures

• NPCs and character miniatures

• A premium boss or centerpiece miniature

• Terrain or encounter pieces

• Pre-supported STL files

• Unsupported STL files

• Additional adventure or encounter material when available

No shipping. No waiting for a box to arrive.

Download. Print. Paint. Play.

September's STL Collection: Desert Ambush

Our first full digital monthly release is Desert Ambush.

Desert Ambush was originally created as our September physical Miniature Subscription collection and features a band of desert rogues, smugglers, and dangerous creatures ready to turn a dusty road, marketplace, or desert city into an encounter.

It is now available digitally for players and hobbyists who want to print the collection themselves.

And from here, the digital library keeps growing.

October: The Dark Below — Episode 1

October begins something considerably darker.

Our next monthly collection is The Dark Below — Episode 1, the beginning of a two-part subterranean adventure filled with sinister elves, fungal creatures, deep-dwelling warriors, psionic horrors, and things that probably should have stayed underground.

This is also where the digital subscription begins moving alongside our physical monthly releases.

When a new monthly collection launches, Digital STL subscribers receive that collection as part of their subscription.

How the Monthly STL Subscription Works

The system is intentionally simple.

When you subscribe, you receive the current month's STL collection immediately.

If you join in the middle of the month, you still receive that month's collection.

Digital STL subscriptions renew on the 1st of each month, and once the new month's payment processes, that month's STL collection is added to your digital library.

Our physical Miniature Subscription operates separately and continues to renew on the 5th of each month.

That means you can choose whichever version of Charm & Ember makes the most sense for you.

Want us to print, clean, cure, pack, and ship your miniatures?

Stick with physical.

Have a 3D printer sitting ten feet away from you while you read this?

We have files for you now.

Supported and Unsupported STL Files

We know different hobbyists prefer different printing workflows.

That is why our digital releases include both supported and unsupported STL files whenever applicable.

Want to drop a miniature into your slicer and get printing?

Grab the supported version.

Prefer to orient and support everything yourself?

The unsupported version is there too.

Larger monthly collections may also include organized folders, prepared print files, or supported plates when they make sense for the release.

The goal is not to tell you how to use your printer.

The goal is to make getting from download to tabletop as painless as possible.

These Are Miniatures We Actually Print

One advantage we have entering the STL side of the hobby is that 3D printing is not theoretical for us.

We print miniatures every day.

A lot of them.

The same designs released digitally are developed alongside our physical miniature production process. We are constantly looking at things like durability, support removal, print orientation, fine details, weapon thickness, contact points, and whether a miniature can survive the journey from printer to gaming table.

We are not simply creating a render that looks cool on a screen.

We want miniatures that look cool after they come off the printer too.

Physical Miniatures or Digital STLs?

There is no correct answer.

Some people love owning a printer.

Some people absolutely do not want another machine in their house filled with resin.

That is exactly why Charm & Ember now offers both.

Our Physical Miniature Subscription is for players who want finished resin miniatures delivered to their door without having to print anything themselves.

Our Digital STL Miniature Subscription is for hobbyists who already have access to a 3D printer and want the freedom to print the collection themselves.

Same adventure.

Different way of getting it onto the table.

Your Digital Library Grows With You

Every monthly release you receive while subscribed is added to your Charm & Ember digital library.

Those releases are yours.

If you subscribe in October, you receive October.

Stay subscribed for November, and November joins your library too.

If you cancel later, the collections you already received do not disappear.

Your subscription gives you the monthly releases you are subscribed for rather than automatically unlocking every collection we have ever released.

Older packs will instead become part of our growing digital catalog so you can pick up the adventures and miniatures you want.

Young Adventurers Is Going Digital Too

The monthly subscription is only one part of what we are building.

Our Young Adventurers collection was created to make tabletop miniatures easier for kids, families, new players, and first-time painters to enjoy.

That idea works incredibly well with home 3D printing.

A parent getting into 3D printing with their kid should be able to grab a pack of approachable fantasy heroes or monsters, print them together, paint them together, and then actually use them in a game.

So Young Adventurers will also begin expanding into digital STL releases alongside our physical packs.

Charm & Ember Is Still Charm & Ember

Going digital does not mean we are abandoning physical miniatures.

Quite the opposite.

Physical miniatures are still a huge part of who we are.

The monthly physical subscription continues.

Our convention booths continue.

Our physical miniature packs continue.

Young Adventurers continues.

And our growing line of tabletop products continues.

Digital simply gives us another way to put the things we create into the hands of people who want to use them.

Some of you want a box of miniatures delivered to your house.

Some of you want an STL file so you can start a print at midnight because your players decided to walk directly toward the encounter you absolutely did not expect them to find.

We can help both of you now.

More Miniatures. More Adventures. More Ways to Play.

Charm & Ember started with a pretty simple idea:

Tabletop gaming should be fun, creative, accessible, and filled with things that make you excited to sit down at the table.

That has not changed.

We are just giving you more ways to get there.

Physical miniatures. Digital STL files. Monthly collections. Young Adventurers. Monsters, heroes, bosses, terrain, and whatever ridiculous thing we decide to sculpt next.

Because at the end of the day, the miniatures are not really the point.

The stories you tell with them are.

And as always:

Joy gives you advantage on life's saving throws.