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What general effect would occur, in your opinions, were one to break a wand? I'm playing a magus that went into the sundering field, as well as creating magic items. If one were to break a wand with charges remaining, would anything happen?
Nothing.
I think fluff-wise there might be a pop, a snap, or even, dare I say, a crackle. Maybe an effluvia, a miasma - what-have-you.
Crunch-wise, rules-wise, there is nothing that happens when a magical item breaks except when noted in the entry (i.e. Staff of the Magi).
I had a DM once try to explode every tiny magical item if it received even minimal damage; 5d6 magic force damage blowing arms off left and right.
No one was amused.
I had tried it tonight. Due to party balance (magus, bard, alchemist, barbarian, and rogue/ranger), the gm had been upping the CRs against us, as touch AC doesn't go up like normal AC. He allowed me a modest amount of damage and to have some of the damage transfer. In specific, we were level 7 and were ambushed by a purple worm CR12.
Uh, so which magic items on the purple worm did you sunder? ^^
Oh, and expect the rest of the group to hate you for destroying their loot.
I jammed my mostly discharged wand of scorching ray into the cut, then used a shield slam to sunder the wand that I stuck in the wound.
Broken wands use twice as many charges as intact wands. That's it, as far as I know. A broken magic item releasing all its charges at once is specifically a property of a Staff of Power or a Staff of the Magi.
It sounds fun, but I personally would never allow my players to get a nuke from a level 2 wand.