Missives from the Alps 1: Joachim of Fiore
Number One in an ongoing series of articles about the historical sources, underpinnings and concepts behind Dead Air Avid readers of the Dead Air wiki may have noticed a few references to Joachim of Fiore in the timeline and who’s…
DEAD AIR: August Update
The Dead Air Is So Close You Can Smell It A quick update for our patient players awaiting their chance to see what we’ve done, who to, and with how much malice aforethought… 23rd September: this is our deadline for…
Casting (spells) (webs) (our net) our Players
This weekend has been the Great Casting as we try to match your questionnaire submissions to our character matrix. After a mammoth session today we are 95% there, and just have a little bit of tetris to do for the…
All is Still in the Dead Air
We are approaching a landmark point in the process of building our November Dead Air event – casting. This is the intricate process of mapping the characters we are writing to the expressed preferences and requirements that players submitted on…
Dead Air – Dreaming of the duopoly of camel
Dead Air, our return to the world of Ars Magica, has indeed lived up to its name as we have remained radio silent over the past months as the pandemic has stretched on, and on, and on… Progress on Dead…
Looks Like We’re All Going On An Alpine Holiday
Thanks to everyone who expressed an interest in (re)visiting the world of Ars Magica – based on the submissions, we have more than enough interest to proceed, so we are moving ahead with the project. With the rules around lockdown…
Never Again
Almost a decade and a half ago a group of fools called New World Order Games ran the last of a series of live Ars Magica games over a long, long weekend in the Peak District. The games – variously…
