However, it is also a particularly rewarding endeavor for both player and DM. By increasing the surge range from a 1-5, a Dungeon Master already multiplies the surge frequency by a lot.Īnother option is to customize the Wild Magic table, but this suggestion is by far the most time-consuming.
As such, it follows that Wild Magic should also scale with spell level. These include component costs (like the cost of Scrying in 5E), and sometimes the inability to cast the spell again (as with Wish). Across all the editions of Dungeons and Dragons, increasing spell levels come with varying costs. This in and of itself will increase the number of surges, and wary DMs can stop here if campaign derailment is a chief concern.Īnother addition to consider is scaling the wild magic surge activation range.
To make the effect's trigger more consistent, a dungeon master needs to extend that surge activation range. They could start by allowing cantrips to trigger surges too (the sorcerer's entire magical origin is from this random arcana, as it should affect the best 5E sorcerer cantrips too). This is a table of 50 different effects that can trigger, while Wild Magic effects range from growing a long beard to transporting the sorcerer to the Astral Plane. On a critical fail (a roll of a 1), the player then rolls on the d100 Wild Magic surge table. In the base game, whenever the sorcerer casts a spell of first level or higher, a d20 is rolled. The easiest fix for this subclass is to make the effect happen more often. With this in mind, the most powerful Dungeons and Dragons sorcerer builds might be more attractive than Wild Magic. A Wild Magic Sorcerer could go for most of a D&D campaign and never properly see the spontaneous magic.
As such, this attempt at balancing Wild Magic into something more controlled means that the effects barely ever trigger. Wizards of the Coast apparently anticipated the chaotic impact this power could have, and as such changed, it made it to where the d100 roll to trigger only comes after several other rolls trigger. This should sow huge discord throughout a campaign, with a massive range of interesting effects at play and making the sorcerer an agent of pure chaos.
Wild Magic suffers when compared to other character options because it just does not commit to its own theme enough. The Wild Magic mechanic is unique in the game, using the rarely rolled 100-sided dice for its magical consequences. This is despite the entire conceit of Wild Magic being based on random effects triggered by the use of magic, which in theory could alter the entire course of the game. However, Wild Magic is much less impactful than Dungeons and Dragons' other subclasses. No feature of Dungeons and Dragons can necessarily be called "bad" due to the creative license wielded by its players.
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