The Mailing List

The Ars Magica Mailing List hosted at Berkeley, also known as the BerkList, is currently the main Ars Magica mailing list. Its primary language is English, and it gets about 30 messages per day. A substantial number of Ars Magica authors are on the BerkList, and post frequently. John Nephew, the president of Atlas Games, is occasionally there and has answered questions in the past. David Chart, the Ars Magica Line Developer, is also an active participant, both officially and unofficially. Most of the designers of Ars Magica 4th Edition are also on the list.

The mailing list is for the discussion of Ars Magica and related subjects. It is not a suitable forum for commercial advertising (unless you publish Ars Magica material), or for unending flame wars. Otherwise, almost anything related to the game is on topic: rules, background, medieval history, alternate rules, alternate background (although if you have alternate rules and alternate background, people might wonder whether you are still playing Ars Magica), upcoming supplements, the quality of the binding of supplements, etc. The best advice is to lurk (read the list without posting anything) for a while, to see what sort of thing is discussed. The BerkList is quite active, so a couple of weeks should give you a good idea of what goes on here.

Please do not post attachments (binary files especially): text files can be included in the body of the email. Also, if your email program is attaching things automatically (rich text, HTML, whatever), please find out how to turn it off, and do so. Note that if other people on the list tell you that you are posting attachments, you probably are: your program will be able to handle its own attachments, so they may not be visible to you.