Saga Pack

The Saga Pack is a play aid for ArM2 consisting of a storyguide's screen, pre-generated characters, and several short articles on storytelling, Mythic Europe, and the Order of Hermes.

Saga Pack

Product Information
Rules Edition:	Second
Abbreviation:	SP
Product Type:	Play aid
Author(s):	Mark Rein·Hagen and Lisa Stevens
Publisher:	Atlas Games
Product Number:	AG3040
ISBN:	None
Release date:	1989
Format:	Softcover, 24 pages
Availability:	Out of print

Subject and Contents

The Saga Pack is an early version of a "jump-start kit," designed to help players quickly learn and get started playing Ars Magica. The text on the back cover gives an accurate summary of the contents:

This Ars Magica™ supplement includes:
* A 3 panel Storyguide's screen. With all the charts you will need
to play Ars Magica.
* 16 complete grogs, with fully detail personalities
(so you don't have to roll them up yourself!), vivid
examples of what grogs can be.
* Numerous briefing sheets on the Art of Story
Design, Life of the Grog, Creating Companions,
Limits of Magic, Mythic Europe™, the Code
of Hermes, as well as many excerpts from
the various Tomes of the
Order of Hermes.

Community Reviews

Until about 2005, Project: Redcap solicited product reviews through a Web form. Now, we use the Wiki instead. Here are the comments from the former Project: Redcap site:

FAQ Rating: ** (6 reviews; 1 *, 3 **, 2 ***, 0 ****)

• Not, bad, not wonderful. Got it at half price and didn't regret it.
• The screen is useful, the Grogs funny and the other texts wonderful
• A more beautiful storyguide's screen than this of the 3rd edition.
• Some reprints of articles in old White Wolf mags, some random essays and several examples of interesting grogs. Mostly superseded or repeated elsewhere.

Related Products

• The Stormrider is a later version of a "jump-start kit," which replaced the articles on the Order of Hermes with a scenario
• Several of the articles were expanded in the Order of Hermes supplement.