The topic pretty much expains itself.

My personnal favorite wild surge was against Sendai. I casted nahals reckless dweomer with spider spawn, and the first surge was roll two more times. Of those two times, one was double spell effects, the other was roll 4 more times. Of those times, I believe two were double effects, so i ended up with like 9 sword spiders being summoned, against Sendai. Anyways, just wanted to know what everyones favorite wild surge was.

[ 02-12-2003, 12:48 AM: Message edited by: Galadriel ]

Do spells fired via wild surges not check the summoning limit?

It's nowhere good as that story, but in testing the Amulet of Wild Magic (item from the Kelsey mod), I gave it to Nalia and had her try to Disintegrate a passerby in Athkatla.

Wild Surge: Target Self.

Poof, no more Nalia.

Phase Spiders that had Melf's Minute Meteors. It felt good to have a pack of medieval machine-gunners in Jon Irenicus' Dungeon. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

My only regret was that I forgot to take a screenshot. :(

I liked the cow dropping on my head, which is pretty good. I also lost count of the number of times I changed my PC's gender :eek:

Hey, I thought for a moment this was posted by my wife. Sorry, Paladins don't have wild anything, surges or otherwise. :D Kat, did it affect your Romance?

No, strangely, because I was in the wild surge area and just had spells cast on my PC until he turned back into a she.

I just had my best wild surge 'till now ...
Was in the planar sphere and I had two wild mages summoning a lesser air elemental each. One casted normally, the other had a Wild Surge: Area effect.
So now all 6 of us were summoning a lesser air elemental, and the wild mage that casted normally summoned two !
That's -7- ( all friendly luckilly ) lesser air elementals for the price of 2 [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 02-13-2003, 09:46 AM: Message edited by: daan ]

Heh. Love my Wild Mage. My best was something boring like 'roll 3 more times!' cast normally, cast normally, cast normally (on an Abi d's in the sewer 'flayer lair), or 'Spell cast and I feel refreshed' after expending everything including my Timestop.

What about your *worst* Wild Surges? Of the top of my head I can remember -

- Area of effect Summon Fiend vs Mencar Pebblecrusher. Straight out of Jonny's dungeon, playing with casting spells above my level. 7 Gates. Beautiful. Got a screenshot somewhere. Shame all the fiends ate each other.

- Casting Improved Chaos Shield in the vestibule of Improved Twisted Rune. Polymorphed self into a wolf. Doh. I engaged them like that - luckily one of the Runies obliged me with a Dispel Magic and my PC was back to normal, albeit a bit nekkid.

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My Wild Mage's Simmy managed to surge the Dragon of Pride into a wolf. It was funny until the damn thing squeezed itself into my party's hiding place (the little corridor Jonny comes out of), then chain wing-buffetted us to death at point-blank range >_<

No, strangely, because I was in the wild surge area and just had spells cast on my PC until he turned back into a she.</font>[/QUOTE]It wouldn't have made any difference anyway - gender for romance is checker for once at the start of the game, then ignored after that.

Actually, I don't think I've ever had a bad side affect of a Wild Surge. Seriously, the only thing mine does is cast heal with an area effect, or double damage to an enemy. But the two or three best I've ever had was with NRD along with Chromatic Orb, sounds like a waste I know, but I ended up electrocuting everyone in the area. Two others was a cow dropping onto someone's head, and my favorite... hit points doubled :D

I haven't played as a wild mage very long, but here's couple of insidents a had in the slaver compound, IIRC.

First I try to cast haste upon my party members and I get Fireball. Two of party died (including the mage who cast the spell [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img] ). :rolleyes:
Secondly I try to cast Fireball through Reckless Dweomer and get No save vs. Spell. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

My favorite Wild surges:
One time I was prepping for a big battle; while casting improved Invisibility on Keldorn I got a surge: Roll twice : Double hitpoints (on Keldorn, bringing him to over 250) + strengthened (strength upped to 23). That's probably one of my favorite surges that I've gotten.

Another time I was fighting in the beholder lair, Using my last nahals to try to cast a horrid wilting against a elder orb; I didn't get the wilting to come out, but I got: I feel refreshed. I then proceeded to cast a sunfire and kill it.

My funniest surges are all instances where I'm winning and I get "sex changed", or I'm about to kill a boss with a spell trigger and when I fire it, i get "wild surge: entangled". One Time I was fighting a mess of golems and I cast a project image, wild surge: area effect. My whole party was projected, it was sooo cool. Unfortunately, so were the golems :(

Actually, that would have had no negative effect at all: Projected Images have NO physical attacks, so a Projected Golem can do precisely diddly-squat: The original is Held in place while the Image runs around casting spells. This is why you've never seen Dundee extol the merits of Project Image->Tenser's Transformation.

In that instance, I would have a ball: While the Golem Images are running around trying to hit people, just have the Image of one of your spellcasters cast a spell to deal a small amount of damage to every one of your party members. Yes, hurt your own party members. Not a lot, just enough to dispel their Images so they (the real party members) can attack. Now that you've got your Tanks back, you are free to take out the Golems--one by one, at your leisure--while your casters can freely use up every spell they've got, since they'll get them all back once the Image wears off.

I was in some minor fight and I cast magic missle....wild surge.... there was a message "oops"...then cast Gate! The pit fiend quickly ripped up my enemies and then killed everyone in my party including myself :D

[ 02-19-2003, 07:54 PM: Message edited by: esquire ]

One of my worst nicked all my cash, dropped tons of cows on my head, and changed my guy into a girl!!!
Gave up after that, as spells always went wrong in major fights, and he died.
Like th hiccuping one though....

I once turned Edwin into a girl (again) :D