The Faith Engine The Faith Engine

✦ A Christian tabletop studio

Print the battlefield.
Build everything else.

Terrain Brain is a Windows, Mac and Linux app that builds print-ready hex and square terrain, playable family board games, RPG minis and lantern shells. A Kickstarter is coming. The list hears first — and gets a free bonus pack of tiles for joining.

Four 60 mm hexes: a snow peak, a lava caldera, crystal spires and a sea cliff
Four of 300+ generated 60 mm hexes — mountain, caldera, crystal, coast.

Terrain Brain

One studio tool for the whole table.

Designed for resin and FDM, on a 60 mm pointy-top grid with a 4 mm plinth — the same fit used in The Faith Engine’s own games. A 3D preview lets you turn the model before you export.

01 · Terrain

Hex and square terrain, on demand

More than 300 procedural variants — mountains, calderas, coasts, ruins — plus official sculpted tiles from Remnants to Revelation, The Crusades, Silent Night and Mighty Men. Generated tiles print at 59.4 mm FDM; official sculpts use the studio’s 59.8 mm FDM fit.

02 · Board games

Playable sets, not decorations

Chess, checkers, tic-tac-toe and a family of other games with rule-accurate boards and pieces that actually fit their squares. Boards split to land on a 256 mm Bambu bed. Classic chess and checkers ship free with the base app.

03 · Characters

RPG minis from the Remnant squad

A character builder based on The Faith Engine’s own RPG heroes. Scale to 28, 32, 54 or 75 mm, add a round or hex base, a name plate and a magnet pocket, and export a printable mini and a play card.

04 · Lanterns

Shells for a half-pint mason jar

Printable lantern shells that fit a half-pint mason jar and hold a puck light — gothic, dungeon, dragon-scale and more, for the table or the shelf.

Kickstarter, coming

The base app, and the packs, at early-bird prices for the list.

Terrain Brain will launch as a digital Kickstarter — no physical shipping. Windows, Mac and Linux, plus a web version for thefaithengine.com. List members hear about early-bird pricing first.

$199Base app, with one set of built-in hexes (20 tiles and the grid pieces), the generator, and free classic chess, checkers and tic-tac-toe.
$99Each full game pack — Remnants to Revelation, The Crusades, Silent Night, Mighty Men, and others — as a separate downloadable pack.

Prices are what the studio is planning; early-bird discounts will be announced to this list. Nothing is for sale on this page yet.

Terrain Brain running on a desktop, with a 3D preview of a tile
The Windows app, with a 3D preview you can turn with the mouse.

Questions

A short FAQ.

What is Terrain Brain?

A desktop app (Windows, Mac and Linux) — and a web version — that builds print-ready STL terrain, family board games, RPG minis and lantern shells for a Christian tabletop. It is the tool behind The Faith Engine’s own 60 mm grid.

Do I need the app to print the free samples?

No. The free listings on MakerWorld, Printables and Thingiverse are complete STLs. You can slice and print them without the software. The app is how you build the other 300+ variants, official game packs, more board games, and custom minis.

What printers does it support?

FDM and resin. Official Remnants-to-Revelation sculpts use a 59.8 mm FDM / 59.6 mm resin fit; generated 60grid tiles are 59.4 mm FDM / 59.7 mm resin. Both seat in a 60 mm pointy-top tray with a 4 mm plinth. Minis are happy at 0.12–0.16 mm on a 0.4 mm nozzle, finer on a 0.2 mm or a resin printer.

Is the software free?

The sample models are free, for personal use. The app is planned at $199 for the base (one set of built-in hexes, the generator, and free classic chess, checkers and tic-tac-toe). Full game packs are planned at $99 each. Early-bird pricing will go to this list during the Kickstarter.

What’s in the subscriber bonus pack?

Three official tiles that are not in the public Starter Hex Sampler — Rocky Ford, Stream Straight 2, and Burning Ground — plus a 5 mm stacking riser. They use the 59.8 mm FDM fit and print with no supports. We send them by email after you join, as a digital product, not as a public download.

When is the Kickstarter?

When the list is strong enough — the studio is aiming for about 1,000 emails before opening the campaign. Join and you’ll get a date, not a surprise.

What can I do with the free files?

Print them for yourself, your table and your family. Please don’t sell the files, don’t sell the prints, and don’t re-upload them to MakerWorld, Printables, Thingiverse or anywhere else. That’s a Standard Digital File License / CC BY-NC-ND equivalent.