…aaaaaand we did it! The Spanish edition of AMDE was funded just a few hours ago! And we have three more days to see if we have some more inside art or even a slipcase for the books! I’m leaving the link again here in case anyone is interested: Ars Magica Edición Definitiva - BackerKit
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Last 24 hours(-ish) to back the Spanish version of AMDE! We’re so close to unlocking 10 additional pieces of art as awesome as this depiction of Baal-Peor! You can back it here: Ars Magica Edición Definitiva - BackerKit
(And last spam too, I promise!).
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I really love your art. I know I’ve said that before, but seriously7 if you added an art book as a add-on, I would.
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In case someone was interested and missed it, preorder store for AMED, Spanish edition, is up and running: Preorder Ars Magica Edición Definitiva on BackerKit
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Ars Magica Monsters Volume 2 is to the point where I need to do my final edit. I always do that on paper, because I find more errors that way.
I expect it go live late this week. It’s about half the length of the previous one (50 monsters instead of 100). I’ve told people it’s shorter because I use Canva, it being free, and it has trouble with chunkier files. The Canva people have bought Affinity and made it free, so I’ll be moving to that software and that may make it easier to do longer pieces of work. The previous Ars Magica Monsters was Pay What You Want. This one is going to have a fixed price, but I’ve used public domain art, so it can be modest.
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I HIGHLY recommend Affinity. ArMD was layed out using Affinity 2. It’s every bit as robust as Adobe’s Photoshop/InDesign/Publisher suite, without the onerous subscription. We purchased half a dozen copies for less than the cost of 1 year of a single Adobe subscription, so even our marketing and sales staff can use professional-grade software.
Now that Canva has bought it, the new version combines all three programs (raster/vector/layout) into one, and it’s FREE. This is a game changer for the indie publisher, for sure!
-Michelle
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I am happy to announce that I now have another adventure up on DTRPG: A Rüdiaria Awakening. It is a scenario that I ran twice, and I’ve had the good fortune that @Antomonio ran as well in his game, so I could take the various lessons learned to round off the scenario.
big thanks as ever to everyone who helped with feedback, layout and proof reading.
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Ars Magica Monsters Volume 2 is now out. It’s free for Games From Folktales Patreons and is for sale on itch.io and Patreon. DrivethruRPG is vetting it, because their process is human mediated and takes 3 days. This one isn’t free: it’s USD8 for fifty monsters. Reddit advises DrivethruRPG authors to charge 10 cents a page, but I cut that back because the Martians have been published once before.
Instead of starting a separate thread, I’d welcome any discussion in the Podcast News thread, which I’ve been gradually filling for a decade or so..
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Did you intend to link directly to your book? It links to the site, certainly, but that’s it. Gotta search from there.
Here is a direct link: https://timothy-ferguson.itch.io/ars-magica-monsters-volume-two
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Just saw the cover art, great choice, I had that one on my shortlist for my planed “Infernal Ingelheim” mythic location/adventure.
Use it anyway: it’s a great image. Come to think of it: there are two versions. You could use the one with the blue dress…
I’ve spent the day practicing with Affinity to replace Canva as my free layout software. There’s a learning curve and there are still some little bits and pieces I cannot get right, but it works so well for a free product that I have to shout it out for people doing layout.
I did 30 pages of email magazine submissions to complete layout in about 4 hours, which as a first run with a tool is quick.
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Which is another way to say: there’s a heap of space in Mythic Europe Magazine volume 2. My hard line for publishing it is April, so you still have time to pitch and write.
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The “green line” of Ars Magica adventures in Spanish grows with the translation of Blood in the Snow, by Alexander Marsh, here: https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/553428/Ars-Magica-Sangre-en-la-nieve
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Wow! Honoured to be translated! Also explains the recent uptick in downloads of my English original…
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I am happy to announce that I have a new adventure available on Drivethrurpg:
The Wrath of Köln
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/555544/the-wrath-of-koln-an-ars-magica-adventure
Big thanks to everyone who has helped along the way, in particular @Galdric for doing such a great job with the layout.
The Wrath of Köln is an adventure for Ars Magica 5th Edition. It includes the material for a storyguide to run the scenario, which takes approximately 4-6 hours to play through.
In the midst of a famine, the archbishop Engelbert of Köln been murdered on the orders of his cousin Friedrich von Isenberg. Now the new archbishop has called the banners of Köln to avenge this assassination. 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.
It is designed to fit in the early years of the Curse of the Rhine Gorge saga, described in the Rhine Tribunal book (Guardians of the Forest) but is easily tweaked to fit into any ongoing saga. Following real events and historical personalities, it slots into a high-research saga.
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The Complete Corpus in Friendly Markdown Format
All 53 official books of the Ars Magica RPG Open License
I’ve now released a raw batch of the entire project to Markdown all Open License content on github. I.e. everything is there in raw markdown, but there are still some OCR and formatting issues within the content (especially the 3e stuff). Nearly all content from 4e and 5e is readable and usable. Manual edits towards “perfect” files can now commence. Confine any discussion to thread:
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I’m working on a seven-novel Ars Magica saga. I’m hoping to have the drafts finished within a year or so and be working on edits and covers by then. You can find more details at the thread I made for it. I’d love to chat with you about it!
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I am happy to report that my newest adventure is live on DTRPG: The Theatre of Roland.
It is a faerie quest centered around the song of Roland, with a small springboard into the adventure in Ingelheim.
I welcome questions, discussions and comments in the dedicated thread. And big thanks as usual to everyone who helped me, in particular my proof readers.
Blurb:
It includes the material for a storyguide to run the scenario, which takes approximately 3-5 hours to play through.
The players’ characters are sent to Ingelheim to access the Kaiserpfalz’ (Charlemagne's imperial palace) library and on their way home are offered to participate in a re-enactement by the local Faerie court in exchange for nebulous rewards. The Characters and Faeries of the Court then play through the main story beats of the Song of Roland, with the player Characters taking key roles.
It is designed to slot into a Rhine Saga, with the adventure starting in Ingelheim but is easily tweaked to fit into any ongoing saga set in Europe, as the Song of Roland is a popular topic in period. This is a high fantasy adventure, and is knowingly designed to play up the theatral nature of the Faeries
This scenario is released under the Ars Magica Open License.
This adventure was created without the use of AI (besides autocorrection), and the art was made by real people in the 19th and early 20th century.
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Amazing! Great work!
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