Expanded Elementals

[taichara]

I like elementals and elemental critters and elemental effects and elemental enchanted whosits. Like, I like them a lot — an affection going all the way back to when I first started poking at rpgs.

Every once in a while I start tinkering with the basic elemental lineup; while I do love playing around with the extended base-para-quasi-elemental collection from AD&D, it’s not so practical outside of those particular scenarios (but boy howdy do I love them all in Planescape!), and in any case there’s that tinkering habit.

This time around it’s less tinkering-tinkering as a collection of thematic traits for an elemental spread, and also a few tables for sprucing up any given elemental that might pop up in one’s adventures ~

Air	Earth	Fire	Water	Lightning	Ice	Sun	Moon	Darkness	Blood
white	deep brown	scarlet	deep blue	white-gold	white	deep gold	silver	charcoal	crimson
transparency	ochre	orange	teal	pale violet	pale grey	rose	pale gold	pitch black	black-ruby
pale blue	grey	yellow	pearl	ice green	silver	amber	cream	midnight blue	deep red
clarifying	mending	purifying	cleansing	revealing	preserving	nurturing	changing	concealing	growing
fugue	destruction	violence	betrayal	spite	callousness	zealotry	delusion	ennui	hunger
inquiry	dedication	passion	patience	inspiration	clarity	hope	tranquility	relief	promise

yes half of the entries are colours. no i don’t care. colour is important.

d10	Type	Shape	Demeanour	Language
01.	Air	leonine	hostile	none
02.	Earth	serpentine	neutral	Helltongue
03.	Fire	draconic	curious	High Primal
04.	Water	amorphous	friendly	common speech
05.	Lightning	geometric	grovelling	First Speech
06.	Ice	avian	overbearing	Heavensong
07.	Sun	humanoid	arrogant	High Primal
08.	Moon	arthropod	wary	druid’s speech
09.	Darkness	piscine	bargaining	beastspeech
10.	Blood	hybrid or metamorph (roll twice more, combine)	fearful	arcane cipher

granted, most elementals are also probably not speaking with mouths. but they might. you never know.

d12	Elemental Quirk
01.	divides on defeat (2 elementals of half original HD-or-equivalent)
02.	can offer creation of material goods
03.	elemental jewel heart
04.	primal nobility; expect fallout if maimed or destroyed, potential boons if aided
05.	not vulnerable to opposing element
06.	100′ range teleport ability in addition to normal actions
07.	can bestow immunity to element for 24 hrs
08.	elemental infection or engulf, continual damage to victim after successful attack
09.	“explodes” on defeat (= HD-or-equivalent)
10.	knows 1d12 spells
11.	can shapeshift into flesh and blood form or forms at will
12.	can carry touched creatures to native plane

yeah, some of these are kind of mean. I like elementals.