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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6349483" data-attributes="member: 1465">Sounds like they tried different frequencies of occurrence for those wild magic effects, got very diverging opinions from playtesters, thus decided to leave it in the hands of each DM/group.Perhaps it was just not possible to establish a default frequency... DM1 likes randomness and dramatic magic, so chooses to have the Wild Mage roll d20 every time she casts a spell, and 5% of the times it triggers a wild magic effect. DM2 wants to keep it rare and herself uses a dice to decide if the Wild Mage should roll, so the frequency is much lower.DM3 wants to be more in charge, and requires the Wild Mage to roll only when the situation is such that a dramatic random effect could really cause some fun, save the day, or give a spin to a boring encounter.Or, we're just reading too much and by &quot;can&quot; they simply mean &quot;will&quot; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6349483, member: 1465"] Sounds like they tried different frequencies of occurrence for those wild magic effects, got very diverging opinions from playtesters, thus decided to leave it in the hands of each DM/group. Perhaps it was just not possible to establish a default frequency... DM1 likes randomness and dramatic magic, so chooses to have the Wild Mage roll d20 [I]every time[/I] she casts a spell, and 5% of the times it triggers a wild magic effect. DM2 wants to keep it rare and herself uses a dice to decide if the Wild Mage should roll, so the frequency is much lower. DM3 wants to be more in charge, and requires the Wild Mage to roll only when the situation is such that a dramatic random effect could really cause some fun, save the day, or give a spin to a boring encounter. Or, we're just reading too much and by "can" they simply mean "will" :p [/QUOTE]

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