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 [Edit]

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: 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.

Online Play [Edit]

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) [Edit]

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

Online Discussion Fora [Edit]

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

Fan-Created Material [Edit]

• 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 [Edit]

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.

Frequently Asked Questions [Edit]

• What is the size of the fan community?