Talk:Wild Surge/@comment-23.243.45.177-20190828043154/@comment-81.53.48.249-20200211175907

I got that one too in BG2EE, once, or at least within sight (the map was too small to be sure, a tavern). I don't understand if it's normal for a 1-target surge to have a rare chance to be cast on everyone, or if the COW! spell just has this as a peculiar trait. I don't recall that I had a multi-roll surge that had the COW! roll and an "Area effect" one, either. But maybe that's it ?

Usually when you cast an AoE spell and get a 1-target wild surge instead, unless specified that the caster should be the target, it seems that the target is selected randomly within the AoE. It doesn't affect *everybody* in the AoE. Only the specific surge "Area effect" does this. I'm not sure that it applies to other surges in a multi-roll, or if it casts the real spell in AoE regardless of what other rolls do.