I was making a Barbarian/Wild Magic Sorcerer multi-class and realized the following scenario may occur:
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Rolling a 01-02 on the Wild Magic Surge Table:
Roll on this table at the start of each of your turns for the next minute, ignoring this result on subsequent rolls […]
– Player's Handbook (page 104)
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Enter a rage which has the following stipulation:
[…] If you are able to cast spells, you can't cast them or concentrate on them while raging […]
– Player's Handbook (page 48)
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Roll something on the Wild Magic Surge Table that causes you to cast a spell, for example:
09-10 You cast magic missile as a 5th-level spell.
– Player's Handbook (page 104)
Does the Barbarian's rage prevent you from casting magic missile or do you cast magic missile even though you are raging?
Note that the following questions establish that when Wild Magic Surge calls for a spell to be cast the Sorcerer is the one casting it:
Best Answer
RAW spell is not cast, however there might be a different RAI interpretation
Rage clearly says that RAW you can't cast spells. Since no exceptions are specified and the wild magic surge states that you would be casting a spell nothing would happen.
However, if we accept an assumption based on the flavor of rage that you can't cast spells while raging because you are unable to perform and concentrate on the necessary complex tasks required to cast a spell (V, S, M components, concentration) then it would make sense for the effects of the wild magic surge to still trigger. After all, even though your character is the source for these spells they are not willingly invoking them. Note that this is based on the "common sense" reading of the rules and not their literal interpretation. It would be purely up to the DM to allow this.