After a recent discussion here on the forums, where I was encouraged to upload the my conversion for the Nigrasaxa characters to 5e, I decided to just convert the whole adventure and publish it. This means updating the references to the 4e rulebook to the 5e rulebook, converting the four NPCs, and correcting the odd reference to changed rules (you no longer get experience points in Magic Theory for inventing spells).
This took me only a few hours and clearly I don't want to make any money off this. I still would like to make it widely available, though. What's the best way to do this? Put it on drivethrurpg for a fixed price of 0? Upload it on project redcap? is there a reason not to do it?
So, from a strict copyright law standpoint, since Nigrasaxa was not released under the open license (the list of works is in the sidebar at Atlas Games | Ars Magica Open License ), you don't (currently) have the legal permissions to publish a converted-to-ArM5 version. That will particularly complicate distributing it through DriveThruRPG.
I highly recommend that you try directly contacting Atlas about your converted version. (They may notice this thread and reply to you here, in which case, great, already done.)
I'm possibly missing something here, but why not? Inventing spells gets you exposure xp, and putting those into Magic Theory is pretty common (although they could also go into the associated Arts or something else you can persuade the troupe is relevant).
Yes, definitely. My current plan is to upload it to Project: Redcap and collect some feedback, but I have to wait for fulfillment of a feature request to be able to select the correct license.
I put the current version of the LaTeX document on overleaf. I'd be happy to receive feedback, comments, and suggestions. With this link, you can edit the file directly. Please edit only to correct obvious errors and make sure the document still compiles after you edit it. I'm happy to discuss proposed changes here.