The best advice is to lurk (read the list without posting anything) for a while, to see what sort of thing is discussed. Otherwise, almost anything related to the game is on topic: rules, background, medieval history, alternate rules, alternate background (although if you have alternate rules and alternate background, people might wonder whether you are still playing Ars Magica), upcoming supplements, the quality of the binding of supplements, etc. It is not a suitable forum for commercial advertising (unless you publish Ars Magica material), or for unending flame wars. The mailing list is for the discussion of Ars Magica and related subjects. One could say that it's in its Winter Season. The Berk List is still active albeit not like the official forum. General discussion of Ars Magica - rules, stories, funny things that happened in your game - is also very welcome. The Berk List is still a good way to keep the extended community informed of events such as conventions, fanzine releases, and upcoming products related to Mythic Europe. The Berk List remains an important way for Ars Magica fans to stay in touch with the community - especially fans who lack the time to keep up with the daily discussion on the official forum. There were 365 members as of November 5, 2016. Today (November 2016) the Berk List sees considerably less traffic but still covers the same sorts of topics. In its heydey, before the official forum was set up, the Berk List saw dozens of messages per day about all kinds of Ars Magica topics: rules discussions, collaborative design of new spells and enchanted items, discussion of products as they were released, character concepts, and story seeds or even complete stories. See also the articles on the mail list's Jargon (much of which has been adopted by the broader online fan community), and the geeky block of ArM Code used by many of its members. Today, UC Berkeley continues to operate and administer the list even very remaining few list members are directly affiliated with the university as students, staff, or alumni. It attracted Ars Magica fans from around the world from the start. The mailing list was set up by Dave Martin at UC Davis in 1988, and moved to UC Berkeley after his graduation, first to the Open Computing Facility (OCF) then to the Computer Science Undergraduate Association (CSUA). In the 1990s, UC Berkeley was home to one of the largest and most active enclaves of the Ars Magica fan community. It is still active, but has been largely supplanted by the official forum and social media. 1995-2004), was formerly the main discussion forum for the Ars Magica community. The Ars Magica Mailing List hosted at University of California Berkeley, also known as the Berk List, BerkList, or BerserkList (due to the vigor of the discussions that characterized it c.
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