Alias hermesweb

About HermesWeb

HermesWeb is an online reference for Ars Magica players worldwide. It is planned as a successor to Project Redcap. It is maintained by Ars Magica fans, for the fans. Its goals are:

1. Provide a centralized "portal" to the many Ars Magica sites on the Web and a gateway to the Fan Community
2. Be a guide and companion for the rules and game world of Ars Magica, providing useful rules summaries, examples, and especially page references to topics from across the game's extensive product line
3. Host a collection of useful Downloads for players, including ready-made characters, covenant libraries, character sheets, and so on.
4. Offer information about Ars Magica in as many Languages as possible

Getting Started

For now, please visit our Overview page, which contains useful entry points into various Ars Magica-related topics.

Contributing

HermesWeb is similar to a Wiki. We encourage visitors to contribute new material or expand existing articles. Become a part of the HermesWeb community! No knowledge of HTML or programming required.

We have a guest account. Just login with user name guest and password magus and you can edit pages right away.

Important Policies

HermesWeb respects the copyrights of other people's work. It is very important that contributors not post material without permission. In particular, do not post excerpts from Ars Magica books on this site. Doing so would get the maintainers in trouble, and could also undermine sales of Ars Magica Products, which would harm the fan community in the long run. Note that this rule applies even to ArM4, which is available for free (but still protected by copyright).

HermesWeb is a fan-created site. Atlas Games, the publisher of Ars Magica, is not responsible for its content. Original material posted here is not official. All trademarks used will be attributed where possible, but are used without permission. Their use here should not be construed as a challenge to their ownership.

How This Site is Organized

HermesWeb is made up of pages on individual subjects, such as Stress Die or the Grand Tribunal. Each page contains lots of links to other, related pages within HermesWeb and elsewhere on the Web. For instance, the page on the Grand Tribunal might have links to topics like Durenmar or the Code of Hermes. The result is a web of topics where (if we've done our jobs right) topics are inter-connected according to semantic relationships.

This is in contrast to a hierarchy or "tree" structure where pages would be organized into categories. There is no hierarchy in HermesWeb; there are only relationships. We have no "index" or "site map" because the web of inter-related topics is growing and changing; it would be impractical to try to keep a site map up to date.

Navigation and Searching

There are three ways to find what you're looking for:

1. Use the navigation tabs at left to get an overview page with lots of links related to each major topic. These are meant to be starting points for browsing, not comprehensive indexes.
2. Use the Find function to search for a page by title.
3. Use the Search function to find pages containing specific words.