I am considering starting a new campaign but find that the system is too heavy for new players. Is anyone here playing with simpler rules such as FATE or Dungeon? What is your experience of this?
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If you read French, the French version of FATE contains in its first toolkit an short adaptation of Ars Magica. Google "FATE boite à outils 1" and you will get the pdf. Towards the very end (p179-180), you will find "Les Arcanes de Darano" which a porting of Ars to FATE system.
Since it fits within 7 pages, I am sure that if you are familiar with FATE and with some help of google translate, you can get the gist of it. I did not try it though.
Keep in mind that Ars Magica is strongly oriented towards study and skills development, whereas FATE is more designed towards story building and character progression is not on the same scale.
I also have variant of Baseraiders (a Super-heroes world using FATE), which borrowed from Ars to handle super-powers. If it interest you, PM me.
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Thank you! My French is not very good but I think it would be easy to translate with google. Anything is of interest 
There is a Powered by the Apocalypse version of Ars called Wizard World. It was discussed in Peripheral Code #1. You can read the author’s notes here, and this document includes links to the game rules and House playbooks.
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I know that back in the day (20-25 years ago) you could find old World of Darkness <-> Ars Magica conversions out there. Not sure they're still around anymore. God I sound SO old when I say that. I remember staying up late reading oWoD fanfiction or actual play write ups based on one of these conversions - it was glorious!
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Hi,
Oddly enough, D&D5. Call anyone with a full spellcasting class a magus, even including warlocks. File off the D&D class fluff. Reskin and liberally let players reskin with AM fluff. Start at 5th or 6th level. Less emphasis on inventing spells, yeah. But it's easy enough to let players design new spells, and then you decide if it belongs, and if so, what level it should be.
And then just play in ME.
Anyway,
Ken
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This is it! Thanks!
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