SPELL MISCAST TABLE ------------------- 1) Spell achieves the desired effect but in an unintended way. Breathe Water grows gills on the recipient. Fly grows bird wings on caster. 2) Spell fizzles - puff of smoke, popping sound, or nothing. 3) Spell reversed - Hot/Cold, Protection From Undead becomes Attraction From Undead, Breathe Water becomes Breathe ONLY Water 4) Spell hits wrong target 5) Spell has enhanced effect 6) Spell has diminished effect 7) Spell range is altered 8) Spell duration is altered 9) Spell area of effect is altered - single target spell becomes area effect and vice versa 10) Spell reflects to caster 11) Spell ricochets randomly 12) Spell affects everyone but the intended target 13) Spell has word related effect - Prot from Good becomes Prot from Food, Message becomes Massage, Lightning Bolt becomes Frightening Dolt (save vs fear), Armor becomes Armoir, Blink becomed Sink... 14) Spell appears to work normally but is only an illusion 15) Spell works but a non-critical change is made to it - Fireball explodes in rainbow flames, Web is infested with small spiders, Haste includes sound of cartoon bongos 16) Spell fails in a critical way - Fireball becomes bouquet of fire orchids, Wall of Iron is Wall of Paper Mache, Featherfall creates a pile of feathers, Tongues becomes gibberish or insults, Shadow Monster detaches caster's shadow which turns and attacks, Water Breathing - caster smells like a pile of rotting fish 17) Spell has bizarre effect - everyone is undressed, caster can only yodel for next hour, all pillows and cushions temporaily turn into pudding, scented smoke pours from caster's pouches, caster's feet leave cartoon footprints everywhere, monkeys leap out of a character's backpack, a large hamster appears and scurries through the mage's robes for 5 rounds, a butler named Jeeves appears - you can ask him one question you don't know the answer to, tiny raincloud appears above caster and showers continuously for an hour, caster walks like an Egyptian for an hour, random body part of someone nearby turns invisible for an hour, delicious cookies fall from and elven tree, bloodcurdling scream whenever caster opens mouth for one hour... 18) Spell delayed by D4 rounds 19) Spell is substituted with a random spell the caster knows 20) Spellcaster is hit by a backlash of magical energy - D4 damage and lose D4 PSY points for D4 hours