The crowdfunding campaign for Ars Magica Definitive Edition is a major success. Within minutes, Atlas Games' crowdfunding campaign for an expanded version of their award-winning RPG reached its initial funding goal.
The Ars Magica Definitive Edition Backerkit Campaign
According to its campaign page, Ars Magica Definitive Edition is the latest version an extensively detailed, award-winning RPG. It is set in the world of Mythic Europe and based on historically accurate details, old fairy tales, and epic fantasy stories.
It is a land where superstitious tales are true. Faeries cause mischief, demons seek weak souls to steal, and wizards hold untold power beyond mortal ken. All built on the same foundation that helped create Steinhardt's Guide to the Eldritch Hunt, Crooked Moon, and Obojima.
The campaign features several books and products for Ars Magica Definitive Edition. They are the Core Rulebook, Reference Guide, Storyguide Screen, a poster map, and slipcases.
Ars Magica Definitive Edition is described as a troupe-style storytelling game. Players take on the role of powerful magi as well as the companions that serve them. Each character contributes to a communal "covenant." This covenant an help shape the history of Mythic Europe over decades or even centuries. Those stories can be heroic, tragic, or a mix of both.
If you own any supplements from older editions of Ars Magica, they are all compatible with this latest edition.
The different pledge levels for Ars Magica Definitive Edition are as follows:
- A Wizard's Companion for $39.95: PDF copies of the game.
- Hermetic Magus for $149.95: Physical and PDF copies of the game.
- Library of Durenmar for $1,220: Physical and PDF copies of the game, and softcover physical copies of all prior editions and supplements of Ars Magica.
At time of writing, Ars Magica Definitive Edition has raised $564,309, more than 37 times its initial funding goal of $15,000. This has unlocked several stretch goals for the campaign, including bookmark ribbons, custom D10s, gold gilding and embossing, and even bringing huge swaths of the Ars Magica setting and system into creative commons.
The Backerkit campaign concludes on November 14.
Edit: The article was updated to remove inaccuracies
