NPC Wizard Corruption, Part II

That last method of determining wizard corruption can take a while, especially as the wizard's level goes up.  That can take way too long to do at the table for those wizards who are rolled up as a random encounter.  Here is a couple of quicker methods.

Table II is used for these methods.  It is similar to Table I except that it excludes misfires from the results (I estimated that about half of failures result in a misfire...this may not be 100% accurate, but it's eyeball close.)

Table II

#failures	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5	Level 6	Level 7	#failures	Level 8	Level 9	Level 10
0	01-60	01-28	01-10	01-03	01		0
1	61-91	29-64	11-34	04-13	02-04	01	1
2	92-99	65-87	35-61	14-32	05-12	02-03	2	01
3	00	88-96	62-81	33-54	13-26	04-09	3	02
4		97-99	82-92	55-73	27-44	10-19	4	03-06	01
5		00	93-97	74-86	45-62	20-33	5	07-13	02-04	01
6			98-99	87-94	63-76	34-49	6	14-23	05-08	02
7			00	95-98	77-87	50-64	7	24-35	09-14	03-04
8				99	88-93	65-76	8	36-49	15-23	05-08
9				00	94-97	77-86	9	50-62	24-34	09-13
10					98-99	87-92	10	63-74	35-46	14-21
11					00	93-96	11	75-83	47-57	22-30
12						97-98	12	84-90	58-69	31-41
13						99	13	91-94	70-78	42-52
14						00	14	95-97	79-86	53-62
15							15	98	87-91	63-72
16							16	99	92-95	73-80
17							17	00	96-97	81-86
18							18		98	87-91
19							19		99	92-94
20							20		00	95-97
							21			98
							22			99
							23			00

Quicker Method:

• Roll on Table II for the number of spell failures that resulted in corruption or patron taint.
• Subtract the wizard's Luck bonus from the number of spell failures (negative Luck bonus results in more corruptions).
•  Approximately 1/3 of the remaining failures will be patron taint.  Randomly determine a spell from the wizard's spell list and roll on its corruption results table (or use the appropriate patron taint table).
• Luck can be burned to avoid corruption effects as usual.  As an option, the Judge can allow up to 1/2 the wizard's level in bonus Luck to avoid corruption.

Quickest Method (use for minor characters):

• Roll on Table II for the  number of spell failures that resulted in corruption or patron taint.
•  Subtract the wizard's Luck bonus from the number of spell failures (negative Luck bonus results in more corruptions).  
•  Luck can be burned to avoid corruption effects as usual.  As an option, the Judge can allow up to 1/2 the wizard's level in bonus Luck to avoid corruption.
•  Roll remaining corruption results on the the generic tables (1-3 Minor; 4-5 Major; 6 Greater).