Death of Rapacus is scheduled twice for LinCon next week, Thursday and Friday, both days 16-20. There are still seats left, don’t miss this great opportunity to show that you are the greatest wizard of them all. Death of Rapacus is my dark comedy love letter to Ars Magica. Your leader Rapacus is dead. One … Continue reading Death of Rapacus at LinCon 2025
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Autumn magic
In which I write mostly about the succesful Ars Magica fund raiser and what it could mean for me. But also share magical autumn pictures.
David Chart on Ars Magica Definitive Edition
The crowdfunding campaign for Ars Magica Definitive Edition launches October 15th. In this post I ask long time Line Editor David Chart if the definitive edition is the end of Ars Magica.
John Nephew on Ars Magica Definitive Edition
The crowdfunding campaign for the Ars Magica Definitive Edition launches October 15th. I asked Atlas Games founder John Nephew about Ars Magica and the definitive edition.
The definitive Ars Magica experience
Atlas Games publisher of Ars Magica has announced that a definitive edition will crowdfund in 2024. In this blog post I reflect what this means and what the definitive Ars Magica experience could be.
Conjuring illustrations for Death of Rapacus
I commissioned Claudia Cangini to create illustrations for Death of Rapacus, my upcoming game about duelling wizards. I want to share previews and reflections on the process. It’s a fun activity but also sometimes frustrating. How to describe a picture that is not there with words such that someone else can draw it?
The story of Montsegur 1244
I created the story game Montsegur 1244 for Fastaval 2008. I felt it was a story that needed to be told and a game that I wanted to play.
The joys of lockdown: Online play
I have played more role-playing games the last six months than I have done for a long, long time. One reason for this is that everyone has moved online so it’s much easier to get a group together. When the alternative is to not play, we can all help find ways to make it work. At some point during the pandemic, we got used to the new smalltalk markers “you are muted”, “I think there is something wrong with my internet today”, and “your voice is breaking off, please try to reconnect”.