d20 Natural 20 Press Wild Spellcraft.pdf

By Ryan Nock

Requires the use of the Dungeons & Dragons(R) Player’s Handbook,

Third Edition, Published by Wizards of the Coast(R)

to the entire roleplaying gaming community, but in particular to all the people at ENWorld

who are keeping gaming fun and vibrant

Wild Spellcraft

Writing

Ryan Nock

Cover Art

JL Jones

Interior Illustrations

JL Jones

J Ryan Machan

Ryan Nock

Graphic Design

Jake Badger

Product Manager

Russell Morrissey

Playtesting & Special Thanks

Melissa Buckshorn, Nic Bumpus, Neil D’Cruze, Lydia Dene, Chad

Dollins, Seth Feldman, Michael Gallogly, Raul Gonzalez, Kevin Kulp, Jessica

Jones, Justin Rollins, Leena Shah, Jim Bologna, Peggy O’Connell, Tri’ni Gren’eys,

Dirk Chin Leung, Matthew Sprange, James Bell, and all the various people who

helped but who I only know by their screennames.

Open Gaming Content

Wild Spellcraft is published under the terms of the Open Gaming Licence 1.0A by EN World through it’s Natural Twenty Press imprint.

The folowing content is designated as open:

All of Chapter 1 .

Chapter 2 from “Wild Sorcery in the World” up until (but not including) “Sample Magical World Overview”.

All of Chapter 3 EXCEPT character descriptions and names (but including stats) .

All of Chapter 4.

All of Apendix A.

All of Appendix B.

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Wild Spellcraft

The supernatural mystique of magic is one of the deining aspects of any fantasy setting. Magic affects the

power of nations, is held responsible for the cycle of seasons, tips the scales of life and death for those who

fall prey to it, and sculpts the destiny of those willing to delve into it’s inexhaustible depths. However, far

too often in roleplaying games, the majesty and mystery of sorcery is sacriiced for the sake of ease of play,

reducing this awe-inspiring arcane force to a simple entry on a “spells per day” table.

This style of magic can be found in countless stories, movies, and books, from European folktales and

Japanese anime, to the Sorcerer’s Apprentice in Fantasia and a particularly famous School of Witchcraft and

Wizardry.

The purpose of this and possible future Spellcraft books from Natural 20 Press is to add more variety, depth,

and charm to magic. Wild Spellcraft details the unpredictable forces of magic that is not mundane and

docile. In traditional mythology and fantasy, magic is never wholly reliable, making wild sorcery a branch

of spellcraft that has variety, depth, and charm in spades.

Wild Spellcraft is intended to be modular, able to be inserted wholly or piecemeal into both new settings

and existing adventure campaigns. The rules in this book are compatible with the d20 system, as found in

the d20 System Reference Document and the Core Rulebooks.

Basics of Wild Spellcraft

Magic is not easily controlled. It takes training, talent, or bless-

ing to successfully wield magical energies. However, even if a

magic-user devotes herself fully to learning the art of magic,

her desire for mastery cannot match the limitless

power that is magic. Often, for a variety of rea-

sons, a spellcaster fails to control the powerful

forces of her magic, and the energies go wild, acting

randomly, or sometimes against her original intentions.

Wild sorcery is most often found in areas where the normal

low of magic has been disrupted, but just as

often a spellcaster may herself cast her spells

wild, due to a curse or perhaps even simple

lack of discipline. Arcane libraries occa-

sionally even have a small collection of

unusual or defective spells and magical

items that either tap the forces of ran-

domness, or merely the forces of unreli-

ability.

There is no one cause, necessarily, of wild

sorcery. It is up to the players and the GM as

to how wild spellcraft works in their game,

or with their characters.

Layout

Though wild spellcraft is

random and often confusing, this book

should not be. The key to utilizing this

book to its full potential is to remember you

can easily give a new description to material

that doesn’t it your view of your campaign so

it works in your world.

Introduction to

Wild Spellcraft

Chapter One: Wild Spellcaster Template includes the main aspect of the rules introduced in this supple-

ment, a template that can be applied to any character, creature, or even item, detailing how wild spellcasters

differ from their more mundane counterparts.

Chapter Two: Wild Spellcraft in Your Game is a GM’s guide to including wild spellcraft your world,

giving suggestions on how different worlds can have different deinitions of what wild spellcraft is. Players

can likewise draw inspiration from this chapter on deining their own wild spellcasting characters. This

chapter also provides uses for wild spellcraft aside from just applying the template to a character.

Chapter Three: Masters of Wild Spellcraft details two prestige classes that use wild sorcery in unique

ways-the Sculptor of Chaos and the Pandaemonicist-and includes stats for three sample Wild Spellcasters.

Chapter Four: Wild Spells opens up wild spellcraft to all spellcasters, providing over twenty-ive new

spells that involve chaos, randomness, entropy, and improbability.

Ten Ways to Scavenge this Book

You don’t have to use everything in Wild Spellcraft right away to ind this book useful.

1. Include a scroll of a wild spell for treasure to see if the party would be interested in more.

2. Use the spells for your chaotic cleric.

3. Apply the Wild Spellcaster Template to an ancient magical item whose power is fading.

4. Roll on the mishap table whenever a caster fails a Concentration check to cast a spell.

5. Have a comic relief Pandaemonicist villain.

6. Introduce a wild spellcasting area that a group of mage-hunters uses as its hideout.

7. The Wild Spellcaster Template would be a ine curse when laid upon a paladin.

8. Your bard could learn Meece’s cartomantic lourish so he can distract with legerdemain.

9. Mention legends of a bizarre forest where all magic is chaotic, and let a Sculptor of Chaos be the mage

using it for her experiments.

10. If you are GM, and don’t like Sorcerers, say that all Sorcerers are wild spellcasters. That might discour-

age people from playing them as often.

Table of Contents

Introduction

3 Basics Of Wild Spellcraft

3 Layout

4 Ten Ways To Scavenge This

Book

Chapter Three: Masters of

Wild Spellcraft

27 Feats

27 Chaotic Disruption

27 Enwild Spell

27 Reckless Spell

27 Suppress Mishap

28 Prestige Classes

28 Pandaemonicist

32 Sculptor of Chaos

36 Wild Spellcasting Characters

36 Anna Kulpa

38 Meece Upknot

39 Nadia Stoneshaper

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Wild

Spellcaster Template

6 Wild Spellcaster Template

6 Mishaps

7 Optional Rule: Exotic & Bizarre

Mishaps

9 Undoing the Damage of Mishaps

9 Creating Appropriate Mishaps

Chapter Four: Wild Spells

42 Wild Bard Spells

42 Wild Cleric Spells

43 Wild Druid Spells

44 Wild Sorcerer/Wizard

Spells

45 Wild Spell Descriptions

Chapter Two: Wild

Spellcraft in Your Game

10 Introducing Wild Spellcraft

10 What is Wild Spellcraft?

13 Tone, the Personality of Chaos and

the Personality of Your Game

15 Reactions to Wild Sorcery

16 Roleplaying a Wild Spellcast er

18 Wild Sorcery in the World

18 Wild Magic Items

20 Chaos Fields

21 Lore of Wild Spellcraft

21 Optional Rules

24 Sample Magical World Over-

view

23 The Andaut Plains

23 Rules Effects

25 Magical Vignettes

Appendix A

61 Exotic & Bizarre Mishap

Tables

Appendix B

65 Open Gaming Licence

Tables

7 1-1 Standard Mishap Table

22 2-1 Fluctuating Caster Level

29 3-1 Pandaemonicist

30 3-2 Risky Magic

33 3-3 Sculptor of Chaos

34 3-4 Fluid Magic

34 3-5 Fuild Magic Alterations

46 4-1 Chaos Blast

59 X-1 Minor Mishap Table

60 X-2 Major Mishap Table

61 X-3 Wild Mishap Table

62 X-4 Typical Arrangement of a

Mishap Table

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