Awesome Wild Surges!
SCARY_WIZARD
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So today while running through the Bandit Camp, I was prepping everybody for battle, and had Neera cast armor with Nahal's reckless dweomer, because that's what I do. I got a bunch of rolls, two of which were "roll twice more". +4 save for one of them...whatever, I can't think of anything that would be harmed by armor unless you could reverse it a la P&P divine magic... Second result AoEd the armor, so it hit errybody! Everybody armor! CHARNAME armor! Garrick armor! Neera armor! Safana armor! Xan armor! That Guy You Can Only Get If You Enter The Right Keys At The Start Screen armor! 
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There've also been situations where I've accidentally gated in nabassu, run in the other direction as fast as my pixel-legs could carry me, and grabbed some water or tea or giggled while watching those assassins in Gullykin/those hobgoblins outside of the Temple/Bassilus and his undead followers/diseased gibberlings try futilely to attack it because I have die rolls in my feedback window.
And, like, you know, the times I've had silence happen when I meant to cast a chromatic orb. Or the times I've AoEd magic missile spells. Sure, in the latter case it really sucks when I don't have mirror images up, but it's the bee's knees when I've got a bunch of enemies at my heels and all of a sudden they get force energy in their faces and any spells that they might be trying to cast get interrupted.
So I guess this is going to be one of those threads where we go "AWW YEAH" about awesome wild surges that have happened in our Forgotten Realms computer entertainment games. Good or bad, share them, people! But only ones that you liked.
Needless to say, I'm going to make a wild mage and dual it over to Cleric, because of the Gibberlings 3 BG II Tweak Pack.
!There've also been situations where I've accidentally gated in nabassu, run in the other direction as fast as my pixel-legs could carry me, and grabbed some water or tea or giggled while watching those assassins in Gullykin/those hobgoblins outside of the Temple/Bassilus and his undead followers/diseased gibberlings try futilely to attack it because I have die rolls in my feedback window.
And, like, you know, the times I've had silence happen when I meant to cast a chromatic orb. Or the times I've AoEd magic missile spells. Sure, in the latter case it really sucks when I don't have mirror images up, but it's the bee's knees when I've got a bunch of enemies at my heels and all of a sudden they get force energy in their faces and any spells that they might be trying to cast get interrupted.
So I guess this is going to be one of those threads where we go "AWW YEAH" about awesome wild surges that have happened in our Forgotten Realms computer entertainment games. Good or bad, share them, people! But only ones that you liked.
Needless to say, I'm going to make a wild mage and dual it over to Cleric, because of the Gibberlings 3 BG II Tweak Pack.
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Always a good one.
Wild surge:NO SAVE!
Greater Wolfwere-Death (instantly disintegrated into a pile of dust)
It was awesome, like 'Regenerate THIS!' moment. Then again, a Disintegrate with no save allowed is a very, very nasty thing. Love the new Disintegrate ray animation too, it looks like a proper Death ray. lol
I couldn't find the baby I was supposed to rescue though, I fear the child was gone if it was in the beast's inventory as well.
Glorious.
Yes you did kill the baby.
Still, how ethicaly good or evil is to kill the baby of an evil race? Maybe hobgoblin babies are total cuties. Or troll babies actually look like those small troll toys that were popular in 90s. Um, would you kill a drow baby if you found one? A cute drow baby with violet eyes, perhaps?
Don't bring it up!
XD
Seriously, NEVER goes well.
Most of the wild surges were only-textual ones, so I got just a description of what was happening and nothing more but I remember two wild surge effects that had let me say: "HA!"
1- After Neera cast her spell the whole party had become psychedelic!! The all of us were shining with all the rainbow's colours...and in the middle of a fight! The effect lasted for a day so I'm pretty sure we launched the psychedelic trend in Nashkel earlier than it's supposed age...XD
2- Just in the first fight after Neera's first encounter, against the red Wizards, happened her first wild surge in my party: in the middle of the fight, with all the fight notes in the bottom box, I was unable to read the effect.
After the fight, I start to gather all my dead opponent's gear and noted that my inventory was full earlier than normal. I looked inside and I found a DIAMOND and 2 EMERALDS!!
I immediately thought of a shop in the eastern part of the town and tears of joy started to fall on my cheeks..
I would have kissed Neera if I only could select the right dialogue option!! XD
Not some awesome magic effects but..TRUE STORY! ;P
Other notable surges I have had were Aoe wish and planetars but they happened at insignificant times.
AoE Wish? Holy cow, how did that work out?
Everyone got a +1 Long Sword and the Genie disappeared.
Enter Baldur's Gate III: Wrath of the Hobo Queen. She would be the most adorable villainess ever! And Grey DeLisle would probably totally reprise her role as her.
"Wild Surge: Explosion?" makes me nervous, but then when I realize Neera just looks like she's on fire, everything's alright.
The same party did also get a Gate during the Fire Giant... Fun times.