Iskra's Ars Magica Page
My favorite game of all
...and I have played nearly all of them.
Ars Magica is unabashedly my favorite game. I have always preferred the weilders
of magic, be they AD&D Wizards, Bushido Shugenja, or RuneQuest Sorcerers. Ars
Magica is a game about and for wizards. It combines an elegant (and very imatated)
system with a rich world: Mythic Europe.
There are plenty of very good sites for Ars Magica. Some of my favorites are:
My House Rules
You can view my basic house rules here.
Send me an email and let me know what
you think. Click here to view my price list for
arms and armor for Ars Magica.
You can see some proposed rules for Combat in Ars Magica here.
My Own Saga's
I have two current and many past sagas for Ars Magica.
Nine Sisters of Sinead
- Nine Sisters of Sinead
- A saga based in the early times of the Order of Hermes: Ninth Century Hibernia
(Eire, Ireland).
- Dragon's Lake
- Dragon Lake is a saga set in Ireland in the 1200's. The invading Normans
have set up their own baronies while the Irish kings wage an incessant civil
war. The Magi have a quiet haven they have defended from the surrounding chaos.
- Apex Atlantica
- Apex Atlantica is set in the 1150's in the Eastern Mediterranean. The covenant
was situated on a wandering island that floats on the wine blue waters. That
island was destroyed by foul treachery (and good high drama) from within and
an invasion from without. The remnents of the covenant have begun to rebuild
on a Greek island.
- Novamir
- A departure from the usual, this saga was not set in Mythic Europe, but
in a world of my own creation. This world owes a large debt to the creative
talents of the authors of FASA's Earthdawn, Empire of the Petal Throne, and
Talislanta. With these excellent ingredients I made a sumptious feast that
five game master contributed too.
- Saevarum
- My first and very long running saga of Magi on the Channal Island of Aldernay.
This saga played one night a week for three years straight. The saga itelf
had eighty years of campaign time pass.
- Morbane
- Four dedicated Bonisagus Magi, a level 7 aura, and a lonly tower surrounded
by ocean for 50 miles. Their mission: Immortality. Each of the Magi achieved
it: One by his seminal work (Summae: Vim, Level 38, Quality 14), One by Reincarnation,
One by Lichdom, and the last by having 17 surviving apprentices and a level
128 longevity potion that didn't stop fertility.
- Mons Solus
- Wilderness magi in the icy mountains of the Urals in distant Novgorod Tribunal.
These magi had access to more than 80 vis a season, but little more than pots
and baskets as lab equipment.
Useful Links
Here are some good links for historic, mythic, and plain interesting information
for Ars Magica.
The Regnal Chronology. Rulers and Dynastaties details. My personal favorite:
Wulfgar the Hairy, a Visigoth that conqured much of Eastern Spain for his Frankish
Overlord.
http://www.hostkingdom.net/regindex.html
Theoi Project - A guide to Greek Gods and Sprits
http://www.theoi.com/index.htm