Wild Surge Table for Pathfinder/3rd Ed D&D

[maerson]

Well, I decided to make a wild surge table.

I know, just what everyone needed, right? Well, if you're interested in a Pathfinder-compatible wild surge table, you're welcome to take a look. I needed it for something coming up in my current 2nd Ed D&D game. (Shh! Hopefully the players will miss that comment...) I decided to make it Pathfinder/3rd Ed compatible because it offered a lot of simplification of concepts, plus it allows me to use it in our Pathfinder campaign and when I convert the 2nd Ed campaign to Pathfinder.

Background for those who are interested:

• Wild surges happen in a variety of situations, such as a spell cast incorrectly, wild mages accessing their powers ineffectively, in wild magic areas, or a consequence of using a rod of wonder or similar items.
• There are many, many, many, (etc.) wild surge tables out there, already, but most didn't meet my needs for one reason or another.
• 100 options (the published lists) are just too few and 10,000 (as on most of the lists available online) are just too many.
• I've collected a series of ideas from many sources over the years, evolved them, and incorporated many of my own.
• Those who can influence wild magic effects (wild mages and a certain crazy little rogue in our Maerson campaign) get a bonus to their check (1% benefit per caster level), so the effects need to be ordered from worst to best.
• Because when the target of the spell is the caster, this causes issues with the previous point, I need a list that allows me to use it both ways. In other words, I wanted a list that could work for situations both when the caster is targeting someone else and when the caster is the target.
• I wanted to focus on interesting effects that won't generally be delayed. I did make some exceptions (such as being resurrected upon next death), but in some cases that might happen sooner than desired. ;-)

Here's some notes on what I ended up creating.

• The RAR file contains a PDF ordered when there is a target other than the caster, a PDF ordered when the target is the caster, and the original spreadsheet with the two columns used for sorting.
• There may be opportunities to add more entries by condensing things, but in some cases (like the devil, demon, protean, etc. entries) I specifically wanted different sorting values on those.
• These have been worded using Pathfinder terms/concepts for clarity and simplicity.
• For spell references, I only used spells from the Pathfinder Core Rulebook as those (or similar spells) are available in the majority of versions of D&D in some form, including our 2nd Ed version.
• It isn't perfect, but it's closer to what I need.

If you have time/interest, I'm very interested in feedback:

• Issues with any of these ideas?
• Any suggestions for improvements?
• Any rules issues/gaps?
• Typos or other general mistakes?

Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated!