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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Messageboard Golem" data-source="post: 2008775" data-attributes="member: 18387">I always loved Wild Mages in the old editions and even though I've had my own thoughts on the conversion for some time, I awaited this release with interest. It hadn't quite peaked my interest as much as Mongoose's Chaos Sorcery and Wild Spellcraft did but as it turned out these products are not really comparable. If you - like I do - prefer a more grim and gritty feel to magic, I recommend you check out Mongoose's work first. You shouldn't necessarily leave this product alone though. Let's look at why....Wild Spellcraft definitely sets out to convert all the aspects that made the old Tome of Magic Wild Mage so well loved. It's an easy read, the prose is in a light and easy tone, the sentences kept fairly simple and the book doesn't take itself too seriously, which is a good thing. Wild Mages are presented as a template - Wild Spellcaster - which allows for great flexibility. The template - definitely the heart of the book - is well done and well thought out. If you go by standard 3E logic - it's not  completely balanced because of its randomness - but if you like Wild Mages, you won't care! The authors have introduced different levels of mishaps (good ol' wild surges) to minimise the unbalancing aspects that these can bring to your game and I'm confident they are nothing a well-prepared DM can't handle.  I did miss a lot of the old Wild Magic spells, however. A shame the authors didn't feel like converting Wildstrike, Wildwind and Vortex for instance. There's a good deal of nice spells in the supplement, however, and die-hard Wild Mage fans probably converted the spells not included in the book already. All in all, this is a minor gripe.... Pdf products are difficult to measure against real books - and it's a shame they don't have their own separate rankings on this site IMO. If you rank this product against superb magical supplements like Magic of Faerûn it doesn't even come close in overall product usability and quality - but such comparisons are not valid. Compared to other pdfs, this supplement holds its ground very well. It is definitely one of the best pdfs out there. There's still a long way to go to reach the quality of the Books of Eldritch Might and for the time being, it seems that Malhavoc Press will remain in a league of their own. If you are interested in Wild Magic, you should buy this supplement. If you like good quality game material at very cheap prices, you should also buy this supplement.  A good start for Natural 20 Press, let's hope the Superheroes supplement will take them one step further upwards....-Zarrock</blockquote>

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