What Happened with this Wild Surge?

Heindrich

I got ambushed travelling between two zones in the Cloakwood, and as Neera tried to cast Magic Missile at an enemy, I got a strange noise, a flash of flames and what appeared to be two demonic gates forming...

Thankfully nothing came out of the gates... not that I am complaining that two Tanar'ri didn't gate in and ruin my day, but was that meant to happen or did that surge bug out?

elminster

This is likely just wild surge 57 -

"Strange visual effect; spell
fizzles"

Tresset

Wild surges cause completely random spell animations to play over the caster and the target. These animations are random every time and have no effect. The demon gate one does scare you if it shows up though.

Heindrich

Tresset said:

Wild surges cause completely random spell animations to play over the caster and the target. These animations are random every time and have no effect. The demon gate one does scare you if it shows up though.

Yeah... especially as I am pretty sure there is a Gate wild surge that actually does summon a pit fiend. Two pit fiends (if that were possible) would be absolutely insane for a BG1 party to deal with.

Tresset

Heindrich said:

Tresset said:

Wild surges cause completely random spell animations to play over the caster and the target. These animations are random every time and have no effect. The demon gate one does scare you if it shows up though.

Yeah... especially as I am pretty sure there is a Gate wild surge that actually does summon a pit fiend. Two pit fiends (if that were possible) would be absolutely insane for a BG1 party to deal with.

There is a gate wild surge and, while the text that appears says "Is that a pit fiend?!", it actually summons a much weaker Nabassu. A Nabassu is still a formidable opponent for BG1:EE, after all, that is what Aec'Letec is (only Aec is a bit stronger than average).

Tresset

Oh, and I believe it is possible to get multiple Gate wild surges at once. You just have to get either "Roll twice more" or "Roll 4 more times" and get really unlucky with what comes up.

kcwise

You never forget your first gate. First, it's all, "Wow, look at the pretty colors," and then there's the screaming and the dying. Bonus fun if you have a surge in the middle of a busy city!

CaptRory

I was in a tough fight sometime in the last few days and Neera got the Gate Animation and I cast Protection from Evil Radius 10ft actually hoping the demon would come out. XD

SionIV

This along with the falling cow is the main reason wild mages are banned from my no-reload playthroughs.

Tresset

I liked using the Summon Cow spell in vBG1. It never killed the entire area back then...