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Yeah I've always wondered why S&W Complete didn't include the Illusionist. With Matt Finch (apparently) being a lawyer you would have thought that he would have managed to find a way round it with the OGL (and even more so now that S&W is out of the OGL). The omission of the Bard is also a mystery ...

Agree, I like the few rules changes in the new edition, the presentation not so much. But the illusionist would be a welcome addition, it should have been in the rules to begin with. LL AEC has had the illusionist since its release, and there were no legal issues. And if we could only convince Matt...

My copy of S&W Complete has arrived (it actually arrived on 02/12/2023, but I've had Birthday and Advent celebrations to deal with, so I haven't been able to do a post on here). I was surprised by the matt finish cover, as all other S&W releases that I've seen have been gloss, and on the other hand...

Yes, Matt did add morale. He also improved the random treasure generation system. So those two things are certainly upgrades. For me, it's the presentation & layout that are the negatives.

Cool; I found it mildly disappointing. The layout and art are both inferior to the previous version IMO. Still happy to support Matt though, and I can still use my old book so not a big deal.

Perhaps PATHFINDER 1E TO SWORDS & WIZARDRY and PATHFINDER 2E TO SWORDS & WIZARDRY CONVERSION documents might be of some aid? This is helpful. A bit overwhelmed with the sheer number of creatures to deal with. So far the revision is going well; I'm about 250 (handwritten) pages into it. But the orig...

Okay, so I'm revising an old Apocalyptic/journey through the Infernus campaign I wrote some time back and converting it over to Swords & Wizardry from AD&D. It's a huge project; the original took around 15 years to write. But over the past 12 years or so since I finished the original, I've picked up...

Now it's just the long wait for the physical copy, but I like what I see in the pdf, especially the 2 page character sheet, adventure log, and improved treasure tables.

Got a bunch of S&W modules yesterday from Noble Knight. Will string them together in a campaign once we finish Cyclopean Deeps unless we decide to tackle City of Brass first.

While I generally like magic-users as is, I have made a few tweaks to give them a bit more oomph, especially at the low levels. Here are my house rules:  All spellcasters receive a scroll with d3 randomly determined spells at character creation  Magic-users may purchase a magic wand or mage staff ...