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<blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 515657" data-attributes="member: 114">I'll float an idea past you that you might want to look at - especially since wizards are (in a literary fashion) more likely to dabble with things they don't quite understand and have problems with...You could allow wizards to spontaneously apply metamagic to a spell (and without increasing the spell slot), but attempting to bend a prepared spell in a direction which it wasn't prepared for is risky - there is a 10% chance per metamagic level not applied of the spell backfiring - damaging spells ground zero on the caster, other spells fail and deal 1d6 per spell level (like a backfiring scroll spell).Thus if the wizard is in a really bad way, knows Quicken, and wants to attempt to quicken that fireball on the fly, there is a 40% chance that it goes off at ground zero instead <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I deliberately suggest the use of a flat percentage which isn't modified by anything. Anyone can do it, but if you are 5th level and attempt to silently, quicken a stilled maximised fireball you've got a 90% chance of wiping yourself out...(I try not to be a naysayer, and to give positive ideas if I can!)Cheers</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Plane Sailing, post: 515657, member: 114"] I'll float an idea past you that you might want to look at - especially since wizards are (in a literary fashion) more likely to dabble with things they don't quite understand and have problems with... You could allow wizards to spontaneously apply metamagic to a spell (and without increasing the spell slot), but attempting to bend a prepared spell in a direction which it wasn't prepared for is risky - there is a 10% chance per metamagic level not applied of the spell backfiring - damaging spells ground zero on the caster, other spells fail and deal 1d6 per spell level (like a backfiring scroll spell). Thus if the wizard is in a really bad way, knows Quicken, and wants to attempt to quicken that fireball on the fly, there is a 40% chance that it goes off at ground zero instead :) I deliberately suggest the use of a flat percentage which isn't modified by anything. Anyone can do it, but if you are 5th level and attempt to silently, quicken a stilled maximised fireball you've got a 90% chance of wiping yourself out... (I try not to be a naysayer, and to give positive ideas if I can!) Cheers [/QUOTE]

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