List of products by edition
This is a list of all Ars Magica products we're aware of, by edition, and the abbreviations Project: Redcap uses to refer to them.
Product Availability
Distributors may carry print editions of many Ars Magica products long after they are out of stock at the publisher; ask your FLGS if they can order the book you want.
For PDF editions, the authorized seller is E-23.
Fifth Edition Products
Fourth Edition Products
Third Edition Products
Second Edition Products
Title | Abbreviation | Type | Notes |
Ars Magica Revised Edition | ArM2 | Core rulebook | |
Broken Covenant of Calebais (revised edition) | BCoC2 | Scenario | |
Covenants | none | Sourcebook | PDF available |
Faeries: A Complete Handbook of the Seelie | none | Sourcebook | |
The Medieval Bestiary | MB | Sourcebook | |
Order of Hermes | OoH | Sourcebook | |
Pact of Pasaquine | PoP | Scenario | PDF available |
Saga Pack | SP | Play aid | |
The Sorcerer's Slave | SS | Scenario | PDF available |
South of the Sun | SotS | Sourcebook | PDF available |
The Stormrider: Jump Start Kit | SJK | Scenario | PDF available (3rd Edition version) |
Tales of the Dark Ages | TotDA | Scenario | |
The Tempest | Tmp | Scenario | PDF available |
Trial by Fire | TbF | Scenario | PDF available |
Winter's Tale | WT | Scenario | PDF available |
First Edition Products
Title | Abbreviation | Type | Notes |
Ars Magica (First Edition) | ArM1 | Core rulebook | |
Bats of Mercille | none | Scenario | |
Broken Covenant of Calebais | BCoC1 | Scenario | |
Whimsy Cards | none | Play aid |
Definitions
- Core rules
- The essential rules for the game. This refers only to the main rule book, so there is only one "core rules" product for each edition.
- Character sourcebook
- A book that focusses on describing sample characters in greater detail.
- Scenario
- A published adventure (also called a story) or set of stories
- Sourcebook
- A game supplement that expands the rules, the setting, or (usually) both, and doesn't fall into another category
- Tribunal sourcebook
- A book that is concentrates on setting information about one Regional Tribunal, or part of a Tribunal (such as just Russia or just Scandinavia)
- Play aid
- Something for Ars Magica that isn't a book -- gamemaster's screen, cards, etc.
Related Pages
Related Sites
There are many roleplaying community sites on the Web that maintain lists of products and the like; the following are known offer information on Ars Magica.
- RPGNet Product List
- List of Ars Magica books and supplements (1987-present). An alternate view is the RPGNet Game Index, providing a checklist of Ars Magica products, with RPG.net members' ratings, comments, and reviews.