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Project Update: Ars Magica Update & Bestiary Art Reveal (again)
A quarter of the world's 8.2 billion people celebrate Lunar New Year, which lasts two weeks or more and this year started Feb 17. During this festival, mass production on Ars Magica Definitive has been paused, as expected. It should be starting up again within the next week or so. Happy Year of the Horse!
DEFINITIVE REVIEW
Thankless Roll Players just reviewed Ars Magica Definitive Edition! It's a long-haul reminiscence of campaigns past, and preview of the new book. View it on YouTube and Spotify.
ARS MAGICA OPEN LICENSE
- House of the Crescent Sun Campaign: The mages arrive at the Count's court, seeking permission to settle on his lands. The first murders are subtle, the initial corruptions hidden in the shadows. Step by step the evil advances, unless you stand firm against it! The complete campaign includes the Campaign Book, Players' Book, System Notes, Handouts and Portraits, and reworked Normandy Tribunal Meetings PDF.
- Wrath of Köln Adventure: In the Rhine Gorge, The player characters are assisting the siege of the castle of Isenberg, they need to thread the needle between the discretion demanded by their Code and helpfulness.
- The Complete Corpus in Friendly Markdown Format: OriginalMadman gives us all 53 official books of the Ars Magica RPG Open License in Markdown, on Github.
Want to work on your own Ars Magica project? See the details of the Open License!
ARS MAGICA LEGACY DOWNLOADS
Recently we found a bunch of Ars Magica downloads from the old site that weren't moved over to the new one. They're now up on our site again. You can find them in the sidebar at atlas-games.com/arsmagica
BACKER PREVIEW
You've seen the new Bestiary chapter illustration from Doug Shuler before, but it has so many "guest appearances" in it that I thought it deserved its own update, with the wireframe and sketch included this time, plus notes from our Make Your Character Magical backers! Take a look, in the backer-only section below.
Enjoy!
-Michelle Nephew
Ars Magica Definitive Co-Producer
Atlas Games Co-Owner
Engaged with this project 3+ times 🌟
Some of us live in countries where the local post office just cannot be trusted. Considering the crazy amount I had to pay (almost the same price of the book) for shipping, can I assume that the DE book will be shipped via courier? It took more than 6 months for the add-on book I ordered to eventually get to me when it was sent via normal mail.
Project Update: Ars Magica in Mass Production!
Physical proofs are approved, and all the Ars Magica Definitive products are now in mass production!
We made a few last changes after we reviewed the physical samples. In particular, we did a big revision to the measurements conversion table (which appeared in 3 places), reworked some art issues, and removed the not-so-helpful regio map. We fixed some important typos that affected meaning, including on the character sheet. Plus we improved the cover files gilding design for the sigil snake heads. All that will be in the physical printing.
In the digital files we ALSO fixed the minor typos reported. Updated files are ready on your Backerkit downloads page, so be sure to get those now!
ENWORLD MOST ANTICIPATED RPG
Ars Magica Definitive Edition made #5 on ENWorld's list of "2026's Most Anticipated TTRPGs!" Thank you for your vote! (Skip to 20:45)
ARS MAGICA OPEN LICENSE
- The “green line” of Ars Magica adventures in Spanish grows with the translation of Blood in the Snow, by Alexander Marsh
Enjoy!
-Michelle Nephew
Ars Magica Definitive Co-Producer
Atlas Games Co-Owner
Hi. I've found that the Venice sourcebook that can be downloaded as reward on BackerKit and the one on DrivethruRPG are different. The BackerKit one weights around 70 MiB meanwhile the DrivethruRPG one which weights around 100 MiB, and is 2 pages longer. The content of those pages isn't very important (an inner title and a licenses and trademarks page) but, to me, it looks like that the DrivethruRPG version has better quality because of the extra weight.
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