Bundle of Holding - Ars Magica 5

I really loved the concept of Ars Magica. I have some of the first-edition releases. The whole idea of having a stable of characters to choose from, sometimes you're the mage, sometimes you're the grunt, fits my style of play just fine. It simply never fit with the rest of my gaming group. Ah well.

The Ars Magica 5 Bundle over at Bundle of Holding is for the Fifth Edition of the Ars Magica rules. 

Magus! We've cast Creo Corpus to resurrect (for a sixth time!) our August 2014 Ars Magica 5E Bundle featuring the Fifth Edition of the Atlas Games tabletop fantasy roleplaying game of medieval myth and magic, Ars Magica. This bargain-priced offer, with .PDF ebooks of the core rulebook and key supplements and scenarios, gives you everything you need to start your own saga of wizardly Covenants in Mythic Europe.

This revival helps promote the forthcoming Atlas Games crowdfunding campaign on Backerkit for Ars Magica Fifth Edition Definitive. All the books in this offer are compatible with the upcoming release. And there's more ArM5 magic ahead!

[Note: This is the fifth version (2004) of the venerable Ars Magica rules first published in 1987. It's not related to Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition.]

For just US$14.95 you get all five titles in this revived offer's Starter Collection (retail value $55) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Ars Magica Fifth Edition core rulebook plus the supplements Covenants, Houses of Hermes: True Lineages, and Apprentices.

And if you pay more than the threshold price of $25.91, you'll level up and also get this revival's entire Bonus Collection with five more supplements and scenarios worth an additional $70, including two more Houses of Hermes sourcebooks – Mystery Cults and Societates – plus the introductory saga The Broken Covenant of Calebais, the Normandy Tribunal location book The Lion and the Lily, and the scenario collection Tales of Mythic Europe.

 

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Bundle of Holding - Ars Magica 5

I remember when I first came across Ars Magica. While the system didn't excite me the setting was awesome. A faux Europe where magi held the true power. My players didn't really like the idea of exchanging roles between adventures so we didn't get more than two sessions in before it all fell apart, but its always held a special place for me.

Well, now you can get all you need to kick off an Ars Magica campaign for less than 15 bucks. If you want to go full on, its a hair less than 27 for the larger collection.

So many games, so little time...

An Ars Magica PC Game Kickstarter? It's So Crazy, It Might Just Work

I just stumbled across the Ars Magica video game Kickstarter. I've never played it, but I did find the rules intriguing during my earlier role playing days - I just never had a group that showed any interest in playing it. I know it has a following, as it's in its 4th? 5th? edition.

I don't know if that following will convert to $290,000 worth of support for a fantasy computer game that doesn't follow the usual tried and true generic or Forgotten Realms fantasy type world.

27 days to go - just under $20k raised - so it doesn't seem likely but it sure would have been interesting.

I haven't seen it pop up on any blogs that I read or my G+ feed, so it could be that the greater RPG world hasn't even heard about this one. It's a shame the Shaker guys couldn't have shifted their funding to an established game with an actual direction.