Project Redcap
Welcome to Project: Redcap, a Web site devoted to the tabletop role-playing game Ars Magica. Our goals are to provide links to as much Ars Magica-related material on the Web as possible, in as many languages as possible, and to serve as an online encyclopedia of both official and fan-created material.
Project: Redcap is maintained by volunteers from the Ars Magica fan community. It has been continuously active (and growing) since 1994.
We are well along in the process of migrating all the legacy pages from Project: Redcap into the new Wiki. Those legacy pages are still online and available at http://www.redcap.org/index-old.html.
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Site News
2012-02-01: The maintainers of Project: Redcap have decided to migrate the content of the site to new software, MediaWiki (the same software used by Wikipedia). There are several reasons for this decision but the most important to you, the user, is that MediaWiki has a more polished user interface. This means editing and creating content should become easier and more intuitive.
This site is still live as we prepare for and begin the transition. Feel free to edit pages as you normally would. It will take at least 2 or 3 months for us to complete the transition, and when we do, we'll do it by writing programs to convert and migrate pages automatically. So from a reader's point of view not much will change for a while, and then suddenly, if all goes well, bam! Project: Redcap will get a new look and feel.
To see what has been added or updated lately, see our Latest Changes page or subscribe to our Atom or RSS feed.
Ars Magica News
2011-04-22: There is a new Open Call posted on the Atlas Games Web site. If you're interested in helping to develop material for Ars Magica, this is a great way to get started.
About Ars Magica
Ars Magica is a pen and paper roleplaying game focused on wizards and magic. The game setting, Mythic Europe, is much like historical Europe of the 13th century, but where wizards, dragons, and faeries exist. While the game is grounded in real history, the magic in Ars Magica is fictitious. The game has nothing to do with real-world occult phenomena or beliefs.
More information about the game is available on our Ars Magica page.
Getting Started
Welcome to Ars Magica provides an introduction for newcomers with helpful advice on how to start playing.
Fan Community
Ars Magica boasts a highly active, worldwide fan community.
Fans have created hundreds of web sites devoted to the game and they frequent the official discussion forum to share ideas and stories about their games, discuss and debate the rules and setting, and even play online. They also publish highly professional fanzines to share creative ideas about the game. Fans organize conventions so they can travel great distances to play Ars Magica with one another. See the fan community page for more information about these activities.
Ars Magica Resources
The original mission of Project: Redcap was to cross-link various Ars Magica sites into a network. Volunteers have expanded this mission to make the project a repository of information in its own right.
Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ)
Our FAQ covers many aspects of Ars Magica, including the rules and setting of the game, the published products for the game, and the highly active fan community.
Internet Site Index
Our Internet Site Index strives to be the most comprehensive collection of links to Ars Magica resources on the Web.
Online Encyclopedia
We also host hundreds of pages of Ars Magica related information here on this site. See the Online Encyclopedia index to get started, or use the Search and navigation features.
Downloadable Files
Our paraphernalia page has links to useful files such as character sheets, rules-reference sheets, maps, and so on.
Fan-Created Content
Links to fan-created Web sites are arranged by category:
- Interactive links lead to sites that accept fan-created content from the community or help you find other players, either in person or online.
- The Saga page has links to Web sites players have created for their games. Browsing them is a great way to get inspiration for your own game.
- The House Rule page has unofficial rule changes that may interest players
- Miscellaneous links page includes fan-created resources that don't fall into the previous categories
Contributing to Project Redcap
Project: Redcap is maintained by volunteers. We invite contributions from the community. If you have a Web site about Ars Magica you would like to have listed here, you can contact us to have it added to a page, or you can sign in and add it yourself. Please see our page on contributing for further information.