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Welcome to Project: Redcap, a Web site devoted to the tabletop role-playing game Ars Magica.

About Project: Redcap

Project: Redcap is maintained by volunteers from the Ars Magica fan community. It has been continuously active (and growing) since 1994. We welcome contributions from all Ars Magica players and enthusiasts, in any language.

Our goals are to provide a central portal to as much Ars Magica-related material as possible, and to serve as an online encyclopedia of both official and fan-created material.

For further information on using this Wiki and the history, goals, and activities of Project: Redcap, please see Category:Help or Category:Project Redcap.

About Ars Magica

Main article: Welcome to Ars Magica

Ars Magica is a pen and paper roleplaying game focused on wizards and magic. The game setting, Mythic Europe, is much like historical Europe of the 13^th century, but where wizards, dragons, and faeries exist.

While the game is grounded in real history, the magic in Ars Magica is fictitious. The game has nothing to do with purported phenomena, beliefs, or practices related to the occult. It draws instead on modern ideas of fantastic fiction, flavored with some authentic medieval fiction and folklore.

Frequently-Asked Questions

Our unofficial Frequently-Asked Questions page answers many common questions about the rules and setting of the game.

Major Topics

Project:Redcap is an online companion to the rule books, with commentary and supplemental information about all aspects of the game.

Mythic Europe

Main article: Mythic Europe

Internet Resources for Ars Magica

One of the main goals of Project: Redcap is to bring together links to as many Ars Magica resources as possible, regardless of their specific content or perceived. Please help by contributing links to your own Ars Magica Web site(s) or any sites you come across.

The sub-topics below lead to individual pages devoted to those sub-topics. Most of the links are on the sub-pages. You may also find it useful to browse by category.

Official Web Sites

There are only a few official Ars Magica sites, maintained by the game's publisher (currently Atlas Games).

Ars Magica Fifth Edition: The current edition of the game. This site includes links to all Fifth-Edition related products, errata, and many free supplements such as character sheets, adventures, and play aids.
Ars Magica Fourth Edition: Also hosted by Atlas Games, the Fourth Edition page includes many extras, including a link to a free PDF of the Ars Magica Fourth Edition rule book! It also has links to all the Fourth Edition products, as well as some earlier products.
the Official Atlas Games Forums: The forums include both the Ars Magica discussion board and a play-by-forum board for online games.

Fan-Created Material

Main page: :Category:Fan-created

see also our Community Portal for information on the fan community itself.

The Ars Magica Wiki: Independent of Project: Redcap, but with similar goals, this Wiki is another valuable community resource.
Durenmar: Durenmar is an archive of high-quality articles for Ars Magica, much like an online fanzine. It is currently inactive (last updated 2005) but still online.
The Net Wizard's Grimoire: A collection of hundreds of fan-created spells where you can submit your own.
Projekt: Ars-Magica.net: A bilingual (English/German) community site
Project_Redcap:Community_portal: Our community portal page includes information on mailing lists, discussion boards, conventions, online games, fanzines, and more.
Fanzines: Professional-quality magazines about Ars Magica, written by the fans, for the fans
Sanctum Hermeticum Renewed: An online fanzine-like archive, currently active, maintained by Niall Christie.
Blogs: We are building an index of blogs related to Ars Magica. Please help us expand this list!

Saga Pages

Many fan sites relate to individual Sagas, which we categorize by Tribunal.

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 Welcome to Project: Redcap, a Web site devoted to the tabletop role-playing game [[Welcome_to_Ars_Magica | Ars Magica]].
-= About Project: Redcap =
+== About Project: Redcap ==
 {{Main|About Project Redcap}}
-Our goals are to provide a central portal to as much Ars Magica-related material as possible, and to serve as an online encyclopedia of both [[canon | official]] and [[:Category:Fan-created | fan-created material]].
 Project: Redcap is maintained by volunteers from the Ars Magica [[Community Portal | fan community]]. It has been [[History of Project: Redcap | continuously active]] (and growing) since 1994. We welcome [[Contributing| contributions]] from all Ars Magica players and enthusiasts, in any language.
-== Site News ==
+Our goals are to provide a central portal to as much Ars Magica-related material as possible, and to serve as an online encyclopedia of both [[canon | official]] and [[:Category:Fan-created | fan-created material]].
-{{Main|Project Redcap:Current events}}
-;18 July 2012
-:After a few months of being busy with other things, the maintainers are getting ready for a mass conversion of the "old style" [[PageWork]]-based Wiki content to this [[MediaWiki]] back-end.
-== Finding What You're Looking For ==
+For further information on using this Wiki and the history, goals, and activities of Project: Redcap, please see [[:Category:Help]] or [[:Category:Project Redcap]].
-Project:Redcap has many pages covering a broad range of Ars Magica topics. There are several ways to find the information you're looking for:
-# This Wiki has a search function you can use to search for specific words and phrases (see the upper-right corner of this page)
+== About Ars Magica ==
-# Pages are organized into [[Special:Categories|categories]] for ease of discovery
+{{Main|Welcome to Ars Magica}}
-# You can simply browse the list of [[Special:AllPages|all pages]].
-# Last but not least, this main page contains links to many of the major topics and you can "surf" from here to pages with specific content
-= About Ars Magica =
-{{Main|Ars Magica}}
 '''Ars Magica''' is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_game_%28pen_and_paper%29 pen and paper roleplaying game] focused on wizards and magic. The game setting, [[Mythic Europe]], is much like historical Europe of the 13<sup>th</sup> century, but where [[magus | wizards]], [[dragon | dragons]], and [[faerie | faeries]] exist.
 While the game is grounded in [[real history]], the magic in Ars Magica is fictitious. The game has nothing to do with purported phenomena, beliefs, or practices related to the occult. It draws instead on modern ideas of fantastic fiction, flavored with some authentic medieval fiction and folklore.
-== Learning to Play ==
+=== Frequently-Asked Questions ===
-See our [[Welcome to Ars Magica]] page.
-== Frequently-Asked Questions ==
 Our unofficial [[:Category:FAQ | Frequently-Asked Questions]] page answers many common questions about the rules and setting of the game.
-== Major Topics ==
+=== Major Topics ===
 Project:Redcap is an online companion to the rule books, with commentary and supplemental information about all aspects of the game.
-=== Mythic Europe ===
+==== Mythic Europe ====
 {{Main|Mythic Europe}}
-=== Order of Hermes ===
+==== Order of Hermes ====
 {{Main|Order of Hermes}}
-=== Hermetic Magic ===
+==== Hermetic Magic ====
 {{Main|Hermetic Magic}}
-=== Non-Hermetic Magic ===
+==== Non-Hermetic Magic ====
 {{Main|Non-Hermetic Magic}}
-= Internet Resources for Ars Magica =
+== Internet Resources for Ars Magica ==
 One of the main goals of Project: Redcap is to bring together links to as many Ars Magica resources as possible, regardless of their specific content or perceived. Please help by [[contributing]] links to your own Ars Magica Web site(s) or any sites you come across.
 The sub-topics below lead to individual pages devoted to those sub-topics. Most of the links are on the sub-pages. You may also find it useful to browse by [[Special:Categories|category]].
-== Official Web Sites ==
+=== Official Web Sites ===
 There are only a few official Ars Magica sites, maintained by the game's publisher (currently [[Atlas Games]]).
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 :The forums include both the Ars Magica discussion board and a play-by-forum board for online games.
-== Fan-Created Material ==
+=== Fan-Created Material ===
 {{Main|:Category:Fan-created}}
 ''see also our [[Community Portal]] for information on the fan community itself.''
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 :We are building an index of blogs related to Ars Magica. Please help us expand this list!
-== Saga Pages ==
+=== Saga Pages ===
 Many fan sites relate to individual [[Saga]]s, which we categorize by [[Regional Tribunal | Tribunal]].
 [[Greater Alps Tribunal|Greater Alps]] | [[Hibernian Tribunal|Hibernia]] | [[Iberian Tribunal|Iberia]] | [[Levant Tribunal|Levant]] | [[Loch Leglean Tribunal|Loch Leglean]] | [[Normandy Tribunal|Normandy]] | [[Novgorod Tribunal|Novgorod]] | [[Provençal Tribunal|Provençal]] | [[Rhine Tribunal|Rhine]] | [[Roman Tribunal|Rome]] | [[Stonehenge Tribunal|Stonehenge]] | [[Thebes Tribunal|Thebes]] | [[Transylvanian Tribunal|Transylvania]] | [[Alternate Settings]]