Ars Magica is a "role playing game aboutsorcerers and their allies in Mythic Europe." Play focuses around the covenant, a community of magi, companions, and servants and guards (known as grogs). Players take up multiple roles in the game, playing as all three types of characters throughout a campaign. A highly influential game that launched the careers of many well-known designers, we focus primarily on the current edition, fifth, but also talk about earlier ones.