Ars Magica + Pbta feasible? Has anyone tried to hack it… I can see the covenant being like a gang sheet in Blades and each player has multiple playbooks for the troupe play element. I just wondered if anyone had thought about the magic system bits at all?
Ars Magica + Pbta feasible?
Ars Magica + Pbta feasible?
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I’ve done a bit of troupe play with the core material but the players found that advancement was a problem (too slow).
There’s already a hack (named Wizard World I think, you can check it in the Google docs spreadsheet), but I haven’t tried it…
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Very interesting question. I’m interested.
I know nothing about Ars, but I’ve heard the free-form magic system in Freebooters on the Frontier captures some of the game’s spirit.
I know I saw one at some point… but while it was a great port, my love of ArsM (which is driven by the fiddly spell creation system) did not look like it would port particularly well to the “gloss over the details and get to the narrative meat” of PbtA (which I also love, just for different reasons).
I made Wizard World available for free: dropbox.com – Wizard World.pdf
It specifically avoids most of the troupe play aspects of original Ars, but it will give you one possible take on the magic system.
Playbooks and reference sheets are here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n2kuefaipvux6j4/Wizard%20World%20Playbooks%20and%20Ref%20Sheets.pdf?dl=0
Oscar Estefania
Thanks I’ll take a look
Let me know what you think! I’ve been contemplating an update for quite some time now and feedback is always appreciated.
Not PbtA, but I worked a bit on a Hermetic magic hack for Fate Core (which is the bulk of what you’d need to do to run Ars in Fate; it’s a bit crunchy as Fate goes, but much less complicated than the original system):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-vVb-B4dIG-hgZrk6yetekKysz9ITa-QdK5unyLdUss
It’s a loose adaptation; I ignored a lot of the original system’s bric-a-brac (most notable the difference between formulaic and spontaneous spells).
The closest I came to adapting Ars Magica for PbtA was adapting PbtA for Mage. Vaguely related, but not really.
Jmz Haz And is it available anywhere? I’m curious about that Mage adaptation