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Yeah, effects varied by spell school, and/or even by spell level cast. I think now we're going into different theme interpretations of...

Yes please! Or a link, or whatever :)

That’s exactly how my custom wild magic tables work. I can post them here if folks are interested.

I've had that happen a couple of times when I ran games for people that were fastidious with notes. I take a lot of notes too but I...

Jeah, definitely there are sometimes the exceptions. I had one player who absorbed my lore and always wanted more - which became a bit...

Nice. Yeah, that's how you do it. Make it relevant now and the players will bite. I'm also reminded of this video from Matt Colville.

Yeah, I basically just wanted to link the Matt Colville video about the topic, which pretty much advises this ^^^ I will say that some...

In my experience, lore only matters for players, if it becomes relevant to their decision making during playing the game. Anything else...

I love improvising and random tables so wild magic has always been my love, but I very much understand why it should be something that...

This is largely how DCC magic works. Every spell has multiple degrees of success and what it does. IIRC magic missile goes from magic...

None of the poll options quite express my opinion on the matter, which is that I really like the idea of wild magic, but I pretty much...

I am a big fan, esp. since I am a fan of magic with mishaps and consequences (and design most magical items in my games to have a...

I absolutely love it. I kinda hate magic that always just works like technology. Press the button, get the effect. Anything to make...

I am not a big fan of it at the table. I played with the implementation in the BG1/2 remake from Beamdog, and thought it was a lot of...