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Recommended age range: 8+ with adult supervision

Miniatures are one of those things that can make a tabletop game click for a kid. Their character is no longer just a name on a sheet. It is standing right there on the table, ready to explore a dungeon, protect a village, or fight a suspicious number of goblins.

The problem is that most fantasy miniatures are made with experienced adult painters and collectors in mind. They can have tiny faces, super thin weapons, complicated outfits, and enough pouches to make even a seasoned adventurer question their life choices.

We wanted to make something different.

What Are Young Adventurers?

Young Adventurers is a growing collection of physical fantasy miniatures from Charm & Ember. The line currently includes three hero packs, a goblin pack, and a skeleton pack. Each pack comes with eight unique, unpainted resin miniatures.

The heroes include warriors, spellcasters, rangers, druids, and plenty of other fun characters for kids to choose from. The enemy packs give those heroes some mischievous goblins and spooky skeletons to face.

Families can grab one hero pack and one enemy pack and have both sides of a first adventure ready to go. You can use them with Dungeons & Dragons, other fantasy tabletop role-playing games, homemade adventures, painting projects, or dioramas.

There is no specific game system required. If your kid decides the elf druid is actually the queen of all squirrels, that is now officially part of the story.

Designed With Younger Hobbyists in Mind

Making a miniature kid-friendly should mean more than giving it a cute face.

A lot of traditional miniatures have tiny features, thin swords, narrow ankles, and layers of complicated details. Those things can look incredible, but they can also make a child’s first painting project feel harder than it needs to be.

Young Adventurers use bold 35mm heroic proportions, larger faces, recognizable equipment, and clearly separated areas of clothing and armor. That gives new painters more room to experiment and makes the miniatures easier to recognize during a game.

We also try to avoid unnecessary fragile areas whenever possible. They are still detailed resin miniatures, so they are not indestructible toys, but their chunkier designs are better suited for beginner handling than many display-focused miniatures.

The First Paint Job Should Be Fun

A kid’s first painted miniature does not need perfect eyes, smooth highlights, or twelve different shades of brown leather. It just needs to feel like their character when they are finished.

Every Young Adventurers miniature arrives unpainted, so kids get to make all the important decisions. The knight can have bright pink armor. The druid can have purple hair. Every goblin can be a completely different color.

Because the characters have larger, easier-to-read features, kids can finish a miniature with only a few colors and still create something they are excited to show off.

Painting can also become part of the storytelling. Kids can name their characters, decide what their equipment does, and come up with adventures while they paint. Once the miniature is finished, it can become a player character, an enemy, part of a diorama, or simply a cool little character they created themselves.

More Than One Way to Play

Young Adventurers can work for family game nights, school tabletop clubs, library programs, painting activities, and kids making up stories at the kitchen table.

Some kids will want to jump directly into a full tabletop RPG. Others may only want to paint the miniatures or build scenes around them. Both are great ways to enjoy the hobby.

Our goal is not to simplify kids’ imaginations. It is to make the starting point a little less intimidating and give younger hobbyists characters that feel like they were actually made for them.

Find the Young Adventurers Collection

You can explore the full Young Adventurers fantasy miniatures for kids collection at CharmandEmber.com

Each pack includes eight physical, unpainted resin miniatures and is produced and prepared by Charm & Ember in Phoenix, Arizona. Young Adventurers are recommended for ages 8 and older with adult supervision.

Choose some heroes, add a few monsters, and let the kids decide what happens next.

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