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"Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?"
"Aw, that's so sweet!"
"No, I mean they literally pop out of thin air. Look, there's another one."
If you're not familiar with the Spellscar Mystery for oracles, it was in Inner Sea Magic. Also, here. Oracles with this mystery have been affected by primal magic, and gain the ability to unleash said forces on their foes.
I was recently encouraged to give this one a try, and since I like playing flavorful characters, I agreed to give it a go. My character was caught in a release of primal magic, and has been altered (hair is now purple, became left-handed, Dad is now a chicken, etc.). Attempts to restore her and Dad have been unsuccessful, and her only hope is that her own developing magic can do what others' can't. Break Enchantment is obtained at 10th level.
Unfortunately, primal magic events have been ruled out of bounds for PFS play (see here). This leaves the Spellscar oracle merely really good at telling enemy spellcasters to sit down and shut up.
But that's not good enough for me! Spellscar oracles are supposed to be about unleashing chaotic forces they can barely control and trusting their party to react better than their enemies. You killed the most fun part of the mystery, Paizo, and I want it back! So, I made my own table of fifty primal magic events to be unleashed when the oracle casts a spell or uses a revelation. They are intended to NOT have any effect on the gameplay mechanics, as long as we can all agree that people have a Weirdness Censor and can ignore things you would expect to startle them, like chocolate rain.
My hope is that any average (and slightly below-average) PFS GM would see that these effects don't have to actually affect the game and allow them as normal roleplaying.
Since these could be used in non-PFS games as well, or modified and used as normal primal magic events, I decided to throw them up here.
Table of "Innocuous" Primal Magic Events
Please give me any suggestions/warnings/funny insults you have, or make your own events and I'll add them to the list.
Why can't you edit your post after a certain amount of time?
Anyway, I used this table in a PFS game yesterday, and it was a hit.
You can no longer edit after one hour, I believe. I think it's just to prevent the forum moderators and code from being driven completely nuts.
I love the chart, by the way. Beautiful.
EDIT: also, printed for use in my own games.
99-100 made me lol so hard!