Fan Community

Ars Magica enjoys a very active, productive fan community. There is a great deal of unofficial Ars Magica material on the Web, and there are active online fora where fans discuss the game.

Game Conventions

Ars Magica players organize Conventions where they gather to discuss, play, and enjoy the game.

Note: we should create a Conventions page. It could contain information about past conventions as well as upcoming ones; for instance, photos and stories from people who attended.

Come to a convention and meet other Ars Magica players! Ars Magica fans have been organizing conventions since 2007. Upcoming conventions are:

• Grand Tribunal 2010 US: The Ars Magica convention will be held in Take Tahoe, California, USA on August 20-22, 2010. Register before June 1 to avoid a extra fee.

• Grand Tribunal 2010 UK The British Ars Magica Convention will be held in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on August 20-22, 2010.

Online Play

Please list any play-by-post or play-by-e-mail games open to new players.

• Play-by-post at the Atlas Games Forums: http://www.atlas-games.com/forum/
• Not exactly Ars Magica, but using Ars Magica concepts, is the Tempora Heroica MUD

Finding Players (for tabletop games, as opposed to online)

• Ars Magica Player Finder: http://arsmagicafinder.atspace.com/index.html

Online Discussion Fora

• Mailing Lists
• The official Ars Magica discussion board: http://www.atlas-games.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=4
• ICQ

Fan-Created Material

• Fanzines are fan-created periodicals about Ars Magica
• Mythic Europe, the Ars Magica Wiki: http://arsmagica.wikia.com/wiki/Ars_Magica_Wiki
• Sanctum Hermeticum Renewed is a collection of articles and materials: http://shrenewed.wetpaint.com/
• Durenmar is another online collection (last updated 2005): http://www.durenmar.de/
• The Net Wizards' Grimoire http://spellswiki.wikidot.com/ is an archive of fan-created spells.
• Projekt: Ars-Magica.net http://www.ars-magica.net/index.php?id=29&L=1 is a bilingual (English/German) community site

And there are also many Web pages devoted to individual Sagas

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.

Blogs and Fan Sites

See our miscellaneous links page for links to general Ars Magica pages maintained by fans.

There are also several fan sites (and some Wikis and blogs) listed in the Regional Tribunal where the game takes place.

It is fine to cross-list your Saga in more than one place if it includes, for example, both setting-specific material (which should be listed under the Tribunal) and on the Miscellaneous Links page.

Frequently Asked Questions

• What is the size of the fan community?