Fan community

This article is about an overview of the Ars Magica fan community. For a list of articles related to the fan community, see Category: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, below.

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

Fanzines

Main article: Fanzines

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.

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 US 2012 will be held August 3-5
• Grand Tribunal UK 2012 will be held August 17-19.

Finding Players

(for tabletop games, as opposed to online)

Sagalocator

An online forum for players seeking games, and games seeking players. Last updated July 2012, so probably still active

Group-finding thread on Atlas Games forums

There's a sticky thread on the official forum that should help find players

Ars Magica Player Finder

Web page of games seeking players. Last updated 2005

Size of the Fan Community

There are no hard statistics on the actual number of active Ars Magica players, but John Nephew did post the following on the official forum in response to a fan's question (on 16 March, 2009):

Well, as a privately held corporation, we don't as a matter of general practice share detailed sales or financial information with the public. In terms of supplements, I'm comfortable saying that we have typically printed 1,000 to 1,500 of each Ars Magica 5th Edition supplement on its first printing. Numerous supplements have needed to be reprinted. The core rulebook needs to be printed in larger quantities, both because of higher demand and also to make its 2-color interior printing affordable. Today we are down to the very last case of the second printing, and the third printing is due to arrive from the printer in the middle of this week, avoiding any out-of-stock time between printings. I hope this is enough to satisfy your curiosity. :-)

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.