D&D 5E (2014) The Joy of Wild Sorcery - Post your amazing surge stories here!

[wedgeski]

These tales fill me with joy, as in two weeks I'll be rolling a Wild Sorcerer and dropping The Havoc on an unsuspecting campaign.

 

[TwinPeaksGuy]

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...

The way I understood it:

ToC: use, then DM can roll on the D100 table or not. Purely their discretion, not necessarily reset by using a spell. The DM I played that fight with liked surges so every time I used ToC I immediately got a D100 roll to refresh. For about 4 rounds I was using it every time to get advantage with green flame blade attacks, and it turned a near TPK into a rout.

WS: Use a spell, DM rolls a D20 and rolls on the table on a 1.

Point is, if all are onboard, you can grind hard into Tides of Chaos.

 

[Herobizkit]

ToC: use, then DM can roll on the D100 table or not.

The D100 roll is triggered by the Sorcerer using a spell of 1st level or higher; RAW, cantrips cannot cause Wild Surges.

To which I ask, why even play a Wild Sorc if you're not going to go out of your way to cause Wild Surges?

Said player is planning on switching to Dragon Sorc for a campaign reboot.