Spellbook is now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s a quick reference of all the spells from Swords & Wizardry, which means you might also find it useful for other old school fantasy RPGs and retro-clones like Labyrinth Lord or original edition D&D.

As you’d expect from an RPG spell reference application for the iPhone you can browse through all the spells organized by name, class and level. In addition to this you can also save your favourite spells to a personalized “my spells” section for faster reference. Spells can be added and removed from this section whenever you like, allowing you to customize Spell Book for your own game.

Having had this app on my own iPhone for a month now, I think it can help speed up the process of looking up spells and their effects, without taking the focus away from the tabletop experience. It’s also fun to look up the different spells when you’re sitting in the dentist’s waiting room, or stuck in a meeting.

I’d like to take a moment and thank Matt Finch and Pete Mullen for their work on Swords & Wizardry. Special thanks as well to Jonathan Stark, David Kaneda, Rob Ellis, Brock Whitten, Joe Bowser, Dave Johnson, Brian Leroux, Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax – who all made important contributions to this project.