Wild magic Aura (whenever this creature or any creature within 2 squares cast a damaging spell roll 1d20 and adjust the spells damage as indicated)
1-5 no damage
6-10 Normal damage
11-18 damage +5
19-20 double damage

Posted By WakeXX on 06/12/2007 5:35 PM
Ice knife looks kinda cool.

Posted By MAURIZIO on 06/12/2007 7:14 PM
Ice knife with double damage means: 20 ice damage + -4AC in a 19-20 roll?

too bad they didn't reduce the dmg to 5 dmg on 1-5... woulda made everyone look at this piece a lot harder.

Posted By MAURIZIO on 06/12/2007 6:27 PM
And no love for LE?????

Posted By ManoVega on 06/12/2007 11:05 PM
I don't know man, it's only a 25% chance that you do no damage, the rest are just gravy. Roll one of each and you're still up 5 dmg, but roll one Double damage on a WarWizard's Lighning bolts or Rays, and you will totally ruin someone's day. Granted the odds of rolling the double are only 10%, but think of the sickness

Apply this effect to the Archmage and imagine what a 20 or 30 damage Mordy's sword would do. Gross. Not to mention empowered Magic Missiles and Acid Arrows.

How about Doubling the Warmage's shocking grasp... sweet. Even Mialee's MM becomes a threat to fodder like wolves.

Remember, if you need the damage to be stable, keep your casters away from her. Honestly, the biggest threat is giving your opponent the same advantage. But in the end look at her spells, they have effects that aren't all dependant on damage: pushback and -2 AC, at least they still do something.

Maybe it's just the gambler in me, but this looks promising (of course not on Vassal since the dicebot blows so damn much!)

Posted By tundrin on 06/13/2007 6:35 AM

The best scenario is when he is with a caster that has a lot or unlimited uses of spells. As well as long range, so if you fail to put n the hurt, you are not immediately in harms way.

The Archmage with his 15point EMM does not have to fret if one of them gets reduced to zero. He has lots and lots of them that can get increased.

I would sacrifice a fatted calf to the d20 gods prior to casting a Mord Sword next to the Wild mage - talk about putting the game up to the roll of a die!  

Halfling Wizard is an interesting choice.

Posted By Temysry on 06/13/2007 3:26 AM
The only thing I'd be worried about is that there really isn't that much of a "high" reward here.  Doing some quick calculations, it's easy to see that the wild magic aura will actually *decrease* the average damage output of a spell if it would normally do more than 10 damage.  So - I think the best use will be by using a larger number of weaker spells.  The only other time it may be useful is for spells that normally do an odd amout of damage and have a save - but again, it only really helps if after the save you would have taken 5 or 10 damage.

Posted By Damien the Bloodfeaster on 06/13/2007 10:31 AM

I'm wondering how it would combine with the Dromite Wilder. The two surge abilities are not identically named...so in theory, a Dromite Wilder's electricity surge could do 20 x2 x2 = 80 damage! Of course the Wild Mage would be exposed to that too, but I suppose you could negate this if you were running Storm + Dragonmark Heir.

Definitely too chancy for a serious warband, but it might be fun to try out anyway!

Posted By Bert the Troll on 06/14/2007 4:55 PM


Would you mind showing your calcualations please? i'm not seeing how average damage would go down. I can see many spells not gaining a boost on successful save unles it is double damage bit the wild magic surge adds +5 damage on a 11-18, it doesn't reduce the damage to 5.

Posted By Bert the Troll on 06/12/2007 11:22 PM
1/2 damage instead of no damage would of (will of?) seen a lot more play.
You would to be gambler to risk that 25% chance of Mordy's sword doing 0 damage

Posted By Vrecknidj on 06/13/2007 4:58 AM
The Wild Mage is too high variance for the competitive community. I doubt we'll see him making much of an impact in the constructed meta.

Dave