Fan community

Ars Magica enjoys a highly active, worldwide fan community. No one knows exactly how many active Ars Magica players are out there: see Size of the Fan Community.

We invite you to participate in the Ars Magica community by contributing to Project: Redcap.

Ars Magica on the Internet

Main article: Internet Site Index

Fans have created a great deal of unofficial material on the World Wide Web, from Project: Redcap itself (and its sibling, the Ars Magica Wiki) to pages for individual sagas.

See the Internet Site Index for a general listing of all Ars Magica sites. Pages for individual sagas are also listed in the Regional Tribunals where those sagas are set. We also have a specific category for fan-created material.

If you are contributing to Project:Redcap by adding links to your own Web page(s), it is OK to cross-list them on both the Internet Site Index and the Regional Tribunal pages if you wish.

Discussions

Official Ars Magica Discussion Forum

Atlas Games hosts the official discussion forum on its Web site. Players use the discussion forum to discuss rules questions, story and character ideas, features of the Mythic Europe setting and Order of Hermes, and many other topics.

Mailing Lists

There have also been several e-mail lists devoted to the game, the most active and long-lived of which is the venerable Berkeley Ars Magica List.

ICQ

Online Play

Please list below any play-by-post or play-by-e-mail games open to new players.

• Play-by-post at the Atlas Games Forums
• Not exactly Ars Magica, but using Ars Magica concepts, is the Tempora Heroica MUD

Conventions

Main article: Grand Tribunal (convention)

Since 2007, Ars Magica fans have organized their own conventions, either as part of a larger game convention or as separate affairs. In fact, is most years there have been two conventions, one in the U.K. and one in the U.S.

Grand Tribunal UK 2012 will be held August 17-19.

Finding Players

(for tabletop games, as opposed to online)

• Ars Magica Player Finder

Fanzines

Main article: Fanzine

In addition to the official Products published by Atlas Games, Ars Magica fans publish their own high-quality Fanzines: semi-professional periodicals written by the fans, for the fans. The current English language fanzine is Sub Rosa.

Idiosyncrasies of the Fan Community

The Ars Magica fan community was historically centered on the Berk List, which has developed its own special jargon and even a geeky notation called the ArM Code.

Since the launch of ArM5, the official discussion forum has developed into a distinct, but overlapping, community in its own right. Due to the number of people who participate in both discussion groups, much of the jargon has migrated over to {enrich, corrupt} the newer forum.