D&D 5E The Joy of Wild Sorcery - Post your amazing surge stories here!

[Psikerlord#]

I was DMing an adventure where the BBEG used wild magic. He turned himself into a potted plant mid-fight and one of the party members scooped him up and threw him into a dimensional well. It was a fantastic end!

 

[Voort]

Btw, where is 'summon a friendly unicorn' on the wild surge table?

47-48 on the 5ed surge table summons a DM-controlled unicorn.

 

[Galendril]

47-48 on the 5ed surge table summons a DM-controlled unicorn.

Very cool! It's nice to see that after so many sessions there are still surges I haven't seen yet!

 

[OB1]

Quick side question /selfthreadjack. At the start of this particular combat I had twinned an enlarge spell on our Barbarian and Monk, which was taken down by an enemy spell caster casting dispel magic on me. After the session, DM and I got into a friendly chat about whether RAI would be that dispel magic would have had to be cast at the subjects of the spell, rather than me, she said that because I'm on concentration and the magical effect is coming from me, dispelling me ends the effect on everyone I'm effecting. I'm not concerned with the ruling (rulings not rules, yay! and besides I would have lost the spell the next turn when I went unconscious anyhow) but just curious how others would rule on this.

 

[iserith]

Quick side question /selfthreadjack. At the start of this particular combat I had twinned an enlarge spell on our Barbarian and Monk, which was taken down by an enemy spell caster casting dispel magic on me. After the session, DM and I got into a friendly chat about whether RAI would be that dispel magic would have had to be cast at the subjects of the spell, rather than me, she said that because I'm on concentration and the magical effect is coming from me, dispelling me ends the effect on everyone I'm effecting. I'm not concerned with the ruling (rulings not rules, yay! and besides I would have lost the spell the next turn when I went unconscious anyhow) but just curious how others would rule on this.

I would rule that dispel magic only works on either the enlarged barbarian or enlarged monk as they are the targets of the spell that dispel magic is targeting.

 

[OB1]

That was my initial thought as well iserith, but she made a compelling argument that concentration implies that the source of that enlargement is the magic still coming from me, and so by dispelling me it ends the effect on them. She went on to say that she could have targeted one of them to end it as well, but figured to kill two birds with one stone so to speak. Ultimately I think either ruling is fine, I had just never thought of it the other way before but will be sure to use that trick when I pick up Dispel in a few levels!

 

[iserith]

That was my initial thought as well iserith, but she made a compelling argument that concentration implies that the source of that enlargement is the magic still coming from me, and so by dispelling me it ends the effect on them. She went on to say that she could have targeted one of them to end it as well, but figured to kill two birds with one stone so to speak. Ultimately I think either ruling is fine, I had just never thought of it the other way before but will be sure to use that trick when I pick up Dispel in a few levels!

To me, it sounds like the enlarged barbarian and monk were wrecking shop and an iffy ruling was the answer.

 

[OB1]

To me, it sounds like the enlarged barbarian and monk were wrecking shop and an iffy ruling was the answer.

Hmmmmm, yes, twin enlarging the front line guys had become SOP for me in the first round of combat, so I'm sure this was a premeditated assault on that strategy. That said, I can still see the reasoning behind it, since concentration seems to imply that the magical effect continues to flow from the caster, and if you cut the caster off from magic, it would then cut off the subjects as well.

Twinning spells is definitely another Joy of Sorcery for the endless rules conflicts it creates

 

[TwinPeaksGuy]

Fighting on the ship in Shadows of the Moonsea. The tank was out of hp. Used tides of chaos, turned myself blue. Another tides of chaos, got HP regeneration of 5 hp per round. cast Sleep and put down 5 kobolds, and got a surge giving a 5th level magic missile that killed both the pirate captain and the wizard cultist dude.

Dropped the mic.

 

[Herobizkit]

I've had a kind of anti-experience with my Wild Mage player. He'll use his Tides of Chaos once for the advantage roll... and then avoid casting any other spells except cantrips to avoid setting off a Wild Surge and getting his ToC refreshed.

Weirdest play style I've ever seen...