D&D General other possible elements?

[Mind of tempest]

I am bored of the four elements but I have all the inspiration of a brick and do not want to make the elemental planes of the periodic table regardless of how entertaining it would be.

does anyone know any other options that could add on to water, rock, air and fire that would be great both from old myths and more modern tales?

 

[J.Quondam]

In alchemy, there's the concept of "Quintessence" (aka, "Aether"), the fifth element:

Aether (classical element) - Wikipedia

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There also are the 5 Elements of classical Chinese thinking:

Wuxing (Chinese philosophy) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I think that "Void" is also commonly counted among the elements in some more modern gaming/fiction contexts.

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[Rabulias]

Not exactly from myth or legend, but older editions of D&D had the Positive Energy Plane and the Negative Energy Plane connect with the 4 major elemental planes, as shown (from the AD&D Manual of the Planes):

This created the Para-Elemental Planes, where the major elemental planes met:

• Smoke (between Fire and Air)
• Ice (between Air and Water)
• Magma (between Earth and Fire)
• Ooze (between Earth and Water)

And the Quasi-Elemental Planes, where the elemental planes met the energy planes:

• Lightning (between Positive Energy and Air)
• Steam (between Positive Energy and Water)
• Radiance (between Positive Energy and Fire)
• Minerals (between Positive Energy and Earth)
• Vacuum (between Negative Energy and Air)
• Salt (between Negative Energy and Water)
• Ash (between Negative Energy and Fire)
• Dust (between Negative Energy and Earth)

Hopefully this inspires you some.

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

Kingdom of Loathing uses hot, cold, spooky, stench, and sleaze.

 

[Ancalagon]

"spirit/mind/soul" has been used by some..

 

[Shardstone]

I've started using the literal Periodic Table. IMO I am a lot more interested in the Elementalist if it conjures Noble Gas Elementals and hurls Uranium Spikes through orcs.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Can't go wrong with adding metal, wood, spirit and void.

 

[tetrasodium]

I am bored of the four elements but I have all the inspiration of a brick and do not want to make the elemental planes of the periodic table regardless of how entertaining it would be.

does anyone know any other options that could add on to water, rock, air and fire that would be great both from old myths and more modern tales?

Smoke. In a webnovel called The Butcher of Gadobhra the author spends time developing it as different from prime in fascinating ways, pretty sure that starts in this chapter. TL;DR to get a grasp on a few details that might seem weird when jumping in almost 200 chapters in. The whole thing takes place in a mmo-like virtual world run by an AI a couple hundred years in a mildly dystopian cyberpunkish future & Ozzy is a "contract worker" playing the role of an NPC

 

[Lanefan]

Given how important it is in a typical D&D setting, an elemental plane of magic would seem to make sense.

 

[payn]

Heart?