Wild Magic

[Chris_Nightwing]

Cleaning out the ol' hard drive, thought I'd share the detailed wild magic rules I wrote up for 3.0 and recently updated to 3.5. Enjoy.

 

[Brasswatchman]

Wow, interesting. I like the long "wild surges" list. I just glanced over most of the spells, but I like quite a few of them - babble is a great idea, and so's role reversal (though I might be interested in a lower-level spell with a more limited duration - lesser role reversal?). My only question is regarding the new "wild" descriptor you came up with... why come up with a new descriptor, instead of just using the already-existing "chaotic" descriptor? Aren't they more or less the same thing?

 

[Chris_Nightwing]

I thought that using the [Chaotic] descriptor would - technically - lead to alignment issues, since it's a chaotic act, plus I tried not to restrict the classes to having to be chaotic. Also it might make some planar travel rather interesting. I also wanted the spells to work with the feats relying on the [Wild] descriptor I made up.

My personal favourite spell is Keys of Chaos, because originally I had it give you a percentage chance equal to your caster level of working, lasting a round a level - so you'd get a bunch of keys and spend aaaaaages trying to get it to work. I changed it to be a little more effective at low levels, unless of course your caster level drops horribly..

 

[RangerWickett]

One of my friends just started a webcomic that prominently involves a wild mage. http://twodeeten.koboldcompany.com/

While you're at it, you might be interested in Wild Spellcraft, a book about wild magic (though it's 3.0). You can pick it up at the EN Gamestore.