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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 6612508" data-attributes="member: 54629">I know the Wild Magic Surge table isn't for everyone but I personally love it, and I'm really grateful that someone chose to play one in my campaign. This character was also in my previous campaign (I ran Legacy of the Crystal Shard before, and now I'm running Scourge of the Sword Coast ~ two of the PCs are from the previous campaign, the rest are new), and there have been plenty of fun times thanks to that table.There was a time when the PCs were being harassed by thugs, and the wild mage triggered the surge that dealt everyone necrotic damage. I had the thugs run away and later the PCs overheard some of them talking in a tavern and it was clear they were suffering from ennui.Another time she turned as blue as a smurf.The best time was when she'd rowed out alone onto an icy lake in order to blast a pirate ship moored out on a long pier. She successfully burned its sails and rigging with a scorching ray, but that triggered a wild surge fireball. Even if she'd survived the blast, it destroyed her rowboat, plunging her body into the freezing cold water.That turned into a major plot point for that character, though, as she ended up getting raised from the dead by a cleric of Lathander, and she has since found herself to be one of the Morninglord's Chosen during the Sundering.The only time I've regretted a surge was when I had her roll when upon being reduced to 0 hp. We ended up with a pentadrone modron in the PCs' midst just as they were about to break into an evil wizard's office. Since none of them could communicate with it, it just saw the breaking and entering and went to stop them, and it ended up completely overshadowing the encounter I'd actually had planned. Since then, any time he gets the modron result, I just have him reroll ... <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    :-P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":-P" /></blockquote>

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