Salve y'all,

A few months ago I shot a few emails back and forth with Bruce over some new
mechanics
that have been introduced to Ars Magica over the last several supplements
released by
Atlas Games. Metacreator is a wonderful tool and I don't know how I did without
it playing
ArM...with the downside that now that it doesn't do certain things I want to use
from the
new rules, I...don't know how to do without it, I guess. :^)

So I have like a million custom data sheets corresponding to the various
supplements that
haven't been covered by Bruce and Peggy. Some things I haven't implemented
because I
don't how, but there are other things which I believe can't be done until
Metacreator is
updated to handle them, which Bruce has in at least one case confirmed.

Let's all hope we can convince Bruce to update the ArM template to handle the
newer rule
types, even if the supplements themselves aren't "done." To that end, I'd like
to start a
thread on "what Ars Magica needs" to allow us to create data sheets for the
newer
supplements, which hopefully would help Bruce...and maybe convince him to hold
another
"hostage" drive!

So off the top of my head, here are some bigger changes that need to be
implemented.
Please augment and/or correct this list.

Character types are now:
Magus
Companion (split into Gifted/unGifted?)
Mythic Companion
Grog

Ability types are now:
Abilities (including supernatural abilities)
Accelerated abilities
Arts
Difficult arts

There are plenty of little rule changes which need to be addressed, but it seems
like
without the above distinctions even customizing a data sheet to cover them is
futile.

Maybe once Faerie comes out and all the Realms of Power books are done, we might
see
an update? <smiles and looks encouraging>

As always, thanks to Bruce and Peggy for a great product!

Cheers,
Patrick