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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 6612488" data-attributes="member: 54629">1) I have told the guy playing a wild mage in my campaign that he can roll for a Wild Surge every time his PC casts a level 1+ sorcerer spell. Not only that, but I've houseruled it so the chance of a Wild Surge triggering increases with the level of the spell slot used. So if you cast a spell using a 2nd level spell slot, a surge will trigger on a roll of 1 or 2 on the d20. If you cast a spell using a 7th level spell slot, a surge will trigger on a roll of 7 or less on the d20. And so on. (The idea being that the more powerful the magic, the harder it is to control.)2) I always let Tides of Chaos recharge right away. Originally, I was playing it wrong whereby I was having him roll on the Wild Surge table as soon as I recharged Tides of Chaos. Eventually we discovered that he's not supposed to roll until the next time he casts a non-cantrip spell. We've since gone with that.3) In light of my answers above, I would say that this is certainly a possibility, and I'm sure it's come up a few times.I also sometimes get him to roll on the Wild Surge table at dramatically appropriate times. Like last session, the wild mage's brother (another PC) was under attack. The player had the wild mage go running to help her brother while calling out his name. I figured she'd be charged up with emotion about that and had her player roll on the table. Unfortunately, she got the one where you get shunted into the Astral Plane for a round ... which was hilarious, given the circumstances.There was another time recently where the PC had just cast a fireball, and the player rolled a 4 on the wild surge table. Since a roll of 3 or less would've triggered one, I offered a "success at a cost": he could trigger a wild surge, but he'd have to roll on the table twice. My player loved it and ended up having the PC grow taller and have all her hair fall out. That's the second time she's gotten the grow taller result, and is now quite tall for a halfling at 3' 11"! (In comparison, her brother is still only 3' 1".)</blockquote>

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