To you I present: Orko
When I first read the Tome of Magic for AD&D 2nd
Edition I immediately got excited about the Wild mage class. Moreover I
saw that Orko, the finest Cartoon Character ever to be seen on the tube,
would make a great Wild Mage to play. I always liked to role-play odd characters
in AD&D to spice up the game. Anyway, we had a campaign in which each
character gets portalled from another plane and I chose to be Orko. Here
are his stats for anyone whose interested.
| Abilities |
|
Special Abilities |
|
| Strength |
: |
9 |
|
Fly 45' (class B) |
|
Nahal's Reckless Dweomer, can choose any spell |
| Dexterity |
: |
17 |
|
Doesn't need to memorize spells |
|
20% Wild Surge |
| Constitution |
: |
12 |
|
Doesn't breath |
|
Permanent Surge Selector |
| Intelligence |
: |
19 |
|
Learn spell from scroll w/o Read Magic |
|
Make Other Caster 15% of Wild Surge |
| Wisdom |
: |
10 |
|
Make other caster cast a Wild Surge |
| Charisma |
: |
11 |
I got to level 14 with this little dude. I played with him through the longest campaign I've ever played, more than half a year. I'm pretty sure I didn't start at
Level 1 though. All of Orko's special abilities other than: flight, no need to memorize and no need to breath, were acquired as he gained experience.
A few words regarding these special abilities:
- Doesn't need to memorize spells
- Orko has no need for spell books because of his magical hat. Any spell he studies is "stored" in his hat. Whenever Orko isn't doing anything he is
studying his spells.
- Nahal's Reckless Dweomer
- When casting this wild spell Orko can choose any spell he has knowledge of (seen another caster cast it, read about it, etc..). He is limited, though:
he shouldn't be able to try a Wish and such.
- 20% Wild Surge
- Orko rolls on the Level Variation table but instead of the regular 5% chance of a wild surge occurring, for Orko there's 20%. Whenever casting a spell
he must also roll a 1d10 and on 1 or 2 there's a wild surge.
- Permanent Surge Selector
- As per the description of the 7th level spell: Hornung's Surge Selector, Orko always rolls twice when a wild surge occurs
and he chooses the favorable one.
- Make other caster cast a wild surge
- I don't remember now the limitation for how Orko uses this power but if you ever choose to implement it, it should be limited for 3 uses per day
or something of the sort. To use this power Orko must gain initiative on the other caster and use this power instead of anything else he planned for the
round. If he was casting a spell, the spell is lost.
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