I was happy to see some activity in the Swords & Wizardy sub-forums of my Old-School Gaming Forum in the past few months, so I wanted to share links to some creations by forum users.
First is a revised assassin class for S&W Complete by Chuck Barchuk, which i think has a great and unique take on poison use. Also, here is a direct link to the PDFs – there is a percentile version and simpler d6-based version.
Next is a handy set of house rules by forum user ratmanof to make S&W White Box a bit more like Greyhawk with variable hit dice, a simplified thief class and greater ranges to weapon damage.
My friend John of Damn Elf Press fame also has a long-running and amazing White Box:FMAG play-by-post “Beyond the Borderlands”. Stop by if you like that sort of thing, and keep an eye out for player openings. Even if you don’t enjoy gaming by PbP, it is entertaining reading!
Smoldering Wizard 
Hey Doug,
Thanks for this! Quick question about the sub-forums and RSS feeds. I can see the feeds for S&W and LABYRINTH LORD, but the content of the feeds seems to be empty. I tried them in both Firefox and Chrome with the same “empty” result. Can you confirm that, or is something screwy on my end?
The feeds I see are as follows:
S&W: https://snw.smolderingwizard.com/app.php/feed/forum/31
LL: https://snw.smolderingwizard.com/app.php/feed/forum/35
Thanks!
Very strange, I checked and in the board settings all feeds are enabled. Give the /feed.php URLs a try as detailed here: https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3.3/kb/article/faq-phpbb-atom-feeds and let me know if they work.
Uh, that link feels like its more for site admins then users like me, but maybe I’m misunderstanding something here.
But! I took a look at some of the specific topics and topic RSS feeds work properly and are not “empty.” For example, the S&W discussion the Elf. The RSS feed for that topic works perfectly (https://snw.smolderingwizard.com/app.php/feed/topic/313). But not the parent S&W RSS feed. Ditto for LL and the topic on variable weapon damage (https://snw.smolderingwizard.com/app.php/feed/topic/339).
Weird, huh?
It’s possible the “guest’ privileges that a feed reader would use are not enough to view the given forum, I will check that. That page is not just for admins, although I agree it is hard to pull useful info out of it. The links are partway down the page, where you see the reference to “feed.php”. Some work for me, like this one: https://snw.smolderingwizard.com/feed.php?mode=topics_active.
Hi Doug. My GM Crimson has a S&W dedicated Blog that chronicles not only our long running weekly campaign but other things S&W related. Reviews & Videos will be coming soon with a focus of S&W Complete. We are playing around with a podcast as well. I know he has been lax in posting lately but has a lot of content he is working on which should be up soon.
If interested you can find the blog at
http://almostcampaign.blogspot.com
Happy Gaming!
Hey thanks for this! I am familiar with that blog and there is some good content there.