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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Green Adam" data-source="post: 4907517" data-attributes="member: 50821">I love Ars Magica and would rather play it then pretty much any other (so-called) medieval fantasy RPG.  Alas, I have not played 5th Ed. as, IMHO, each edition after 3rd seemed to explain the rules is a more complicated fashion.  Also, I simplified the rules for spontaneous casting so that they work exactly how ArghMark described them but I'm able to figure difficulty levels on the fly a bit more. I slightly reduced the number of starting points a Wizard has to work with and increased it for Grogs and Companions so players could, if they wanted to, play in a slightly more D&D style*. Finally, in 3rd there was a clearer description (again IMO) of the various House wizards in an almost Template or archtype format. With this you can generate a character really quickly and then modify the points to customize them. If done right, this goes a long way toward making a wizard who can fight and not appear so fragile. ADBarking Alien *One interesting idea my players and I came up with was instead of each player controlling a wizard and a small collection of companions, we had one player do that, one player only played a wizard and one only played a set of grogs and custos. The latter player didn't want to have to deal with all the "involved elements of being a wizard".</blockquote>