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Ars magica 5e review nearing completion
« on: January 10, 2005, 06:51:21 PM »
2 things...
1. Ars Magica 4e has been availible for download for free on RPGnow for some time if your curious to see 4e go ahead and download it... its 2.9 megs so It shouldnt be too bad even for slow connections...
http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?cPath=268&products_id=774&

Im trying a new format-
Im just curious, do Ars Magic fans or newbies have any specific questions they want answered?
« Last Edit: January 10, 2005, 06:52:46 PM by ElJeffe »
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Re: Ars magica 5e review nearing completion
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2005, 10:42:26 PM »
Well, if it's going to be answered here, what pray tell is this Ars Magica 5e? And why is it two editions ahead of D&D?
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Re: Ars magica 5e review nearing completion
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2005, 11:05:10 PM »
Ars Magica is the game that influenced Mage a lot - from the little i know, its a renaissance period game where the characters play Magic users, with a fairly free magic system and some interesting ideas about GM - Player interaction.
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Re: Ars magica 5e review nearing completion
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2005, 08:37:02 AM »
I love Ars Magica, one of my favourite games.

What I want to know:

How has the Covenantn system changed/stayed the same?

The arts and methods?

The use of Grogs, Companions and Mages?

Most importantly, does 5e solve the annoying 4e problem of having no way to build experienced NPC mages other than generating them as PCs and making the progress to their abilities season by season?
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Re: Ars magica 5e review nearing completion
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2005, 12:42:48 PM »
Ok, a quick update, Ars Magica the review is 3/4 done, and I will submit it on monday. The main reason the whole thing is taking so long is that I plan to give you guys a Tower of Cheapness bonus. So whats this bonus? A campaign set in 1190 AD. What kind of campaign you ask? Well 1190 is when Richard Cour de Lion set off to kindly ask the Muslims to give back Jerusulam. After reading Ars Magica I decided that the rules seem spledidly written to carry the Robin Hood myth...
So... I am writing a Robin Hood chronicle for Ars Magica.

It will have stats for
Ye Covenant of mages five
Robyn Hoode and His Merrie Men
Maide Marion
The Sheriffe of Nottingham and his wife
Guy of Gisborn
Prince John
Queen Eleanor
William the Lion
Baldwin Archbishop of Canturbury

along with
A year by year chronology

if I can get them
a Map of Nottingham
Pictures and Art
and much more...

I may have to find a way to host something too, as a PDF would be the  best way to give you guys the goodness.
Or Eric and I may have to figure something out.

Anyhow the more astute of you may notice the lack of stats and information for Richard I, this is intentional, Richard I good king that he was spent only 7 months of his 10 year reign in England.

So, thats whats going on... I may just do a quick review of Men and the sea for Heroquest to get some pressure off the editors but that will have to wait until tonight or tomorrow...
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Re: Ars magica 5e review nearing completion
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2005, 12:58:44 PM »
I can host anything like that on one of my sites.

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Re: Ars magica 5e review nearing completion
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2005, 01:41:38 PM »
Sounds like a cool idea.
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