Ars Magica Introductory adventures
From: malkkonian Posted on: 12/29/2004 2:44 pm
To: ALL
Message: 471.1

Hi,

Are downloadable introductory adventures like Nigrasaxa or Promises, Promises going to be available for 5th ed?

I would like to establish interest at my local gaming club (Perth, Western Australia) in Ars Magica and short intro daventures with pregenerated handout characters would be the easiest way of doing that.

Malc

From: FujiYakumo Posted on: 12/29/2004 3:27 pm
To: malkkonian
Message: 471.2
in reply to: 471.1

Well, if Atlas isn't doing conversions any time soon, you can...

1) If everyone can make use of them, download the free pdf of the 4th edition and then use the downloads you talked about. The whole point of Atlas keeping the 4th pdf free is to draw interest. This works particularly well now because,in addtition to have all the core material and some supplementary material for free, all of the current commericial supplements are 4th ed or earlier anyway.

2) If you really want to start off on 5th ed to avoid players clinging desperately to what they thought worked in 4th ed (and I think there will be a bit of that for those who have played 4th or earlier), work out what you think are proper conversions based on appendix I, pp. 223-24. Some of this you could do by lowering power level of NPCs or increasing their age. Or you can just have the players be older magi than originally intended and keep everything else roughly the same for the NPCs.

Either way, if you really want to use Nigrasaxa, you may wish to purchase Heirs to Merlin/Stonehenge Tribunal book. In edition to having been written by David Chart (5th ed. core book ed. and project manager), it didn't put in any stats. That was, and probably still is, annoying for a number of people, but does you no harm if you want to start out 5th ed. The main reason I mention it though, is that Nagrasaxa is written up as a Stonehenge covenant.

From: Galerius Posted on: 12/30/2004 10:23 am
To: malkkonian
Message: 471.3
in reply to: 471.1
There have been no announcements about downloadable adventures, but you could buy "The Broken Covenant of Calebais." If you haven't played that yet, do yourself the favor! It is, however, somewhat long - 4-5 sessions at least.
From: David Chart Posted on: 1/1/2005 4:29 am
To: malkkonian
Message: 471.4
in reply to: 471.1

If you want to run demos, you should sign up as a member of Atlas's Special Ops. You don't get formal credit for running demos at game clubs, as I recall, but we certainly don't object to it.

There is an ArM5 demo adventure available to Special Ops members. At the moment, only to them, altough it will become freely available at some point this year.