Tomas' story

Got it, thanks! I found a picture of what Tomas will eventually look like but right now everything's a bit shorter and rough-looking. Should I still use it or wait until he looks like that in-game? I'm also using this guideline for roleplaying his 6 intelligence. I'll be editing his above thoughts in light of this guidance. Finally, does first-person or third-person narration matter at all?

Will get it up as soon as I'm back at home then.

So, upon rereading of the Wild Magic bloodline, I've realized that it would be quite slow if we decide to run it by RAW (I cast a 1st level or higher spell, you decide if it I should make a d20 roll to see if I roll on the Wild Magic table and/or you decide that I should just roll Magic Wild table - giving my Tides of Chaos feature back at the same time, then I roll and apply any effects based on the roll). However, I want to keep the bloodline, if possible, as it fits the initial character concept the best (confused and scared of this random magic that he manifests). I have some suggestions to resolve this. The first would still be quick but closer to RAW and would occasionally need you to ask me for input. When I cast a qualifying spell, you decide if either of those two consequences occur and roll for it. This means you'll only need to ask me about targetting in a couple cases such as the one that makes me cast Magic Missile. Further from RAW would be setting up some sort of system to follow (which I could do on my own) to serve as a stand-in for DM discretion. An example of this would be me always rolling a d20 after casting and then rolling on the Wild Magic table if I get the value of the spell level or lower, with Tides of Chaos regenerating on every Wild Magic Surge. Do you like either of those or have one of your own that would be better? Or should I try to think of another suggestion?

If you like the first suggestion, would you like a standard OOC reminder to be placed in each posting where I cast a spell to help you remember?

Edit: And, as said before, keeping the quarterstaff in hand and using it to poke ahead on the ground and in front of his face.

Well, the point of doing something like this would mostly be for speeding up play. If we go with the latter option, instead of you rolling on the table, I think I should be the one to roll on the wild magic table and the result (so the spell cast, wild magic roll, and surge roll could all happen in the same post or quick succession - reducing the number of times we need to check in with one another). If you want, you can describe how the effects actually play out in terms of flavor (unless you'd rather I do that).

It's not as though I'd be able to change the value of the roll, if I'm the one rolling on the table instead of you.

Or, if you want to have it be all on your end (only consulting me if there's a target), then you could do the "equal or under spell level" roll for determining if there's a surge + the surge roll, if there is one. Instead of me doing one and you doing the other.

Also, what do you think about wild magic surges resulting in my Tides of Chaos regenerating? In RAW they're two separate features where regenerating Tides of Chaos is just an automatic Wild Magic Surge determined by the DM. However, the rolling on every spell cast plus the "equal or under" factor for determining surge chance increases the overall amount of surges compared to the normal wild magic surge chance rolling. So, comparing normal wild magic surge chance rolls + automatic surges and regenerating Tides with modified magic surge chance rolls that regenerate tides - it should come out to about equal (given the disposition of one's GM). If you have another way of determining when Tides of Chaos regenerates, that'd be good to hear too.

Another question: How much of the 50 ft. of hempen rope was used in the creation of the shield?

Oh dang, I mixed up in my head what roll you were asking for. At least the modifiers were the same. My bad!

If he wins initiative, he's going to bang the staff on the shield and stand tall in an attempt to look less like prey and more like something threatening to the wolf. If he loses initiative, he's going to try and smack it with the staff.

Did you have any ideas regarding the Tides of Chaos feature? Also, how do you run Shield spell in PbP?