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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 1856315" data-attributes="member: 1328">I miss his absence. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Me, personally, I have simplified things a bit, element is a synonym of energy, and there are 13 energies.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Air</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cold</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Corrosion (often called Acid, but this is a misnomer, as bases are elements of corrosion too)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Darkness</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Earth</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Electricity</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Entropy (Negative Energy)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fire</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Force</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Light</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sound</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Vitality (positive energy)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Water</li> </ul>It is theorized, by firm believed of the Rules of Fours, that there are three other energies, undiscovered to this day, because they are subtler, more ephemeral. Proposed energies include sentience (mental energy, the spiritual equivalent of positive energy, the energy manipulated by psionicists in their psychic magic), belief, emotions... Other claim the primordial alignments (order, chaos, balance) should be added. Still other claims that the elements of wood, flesh and void should be considered. And you have people thinking that the feminine and masculine principle deserve this honor. Bleak figures claim the three other elements are curse, disease, and poison. It's all very blurry past the thirteen acknowledged elements.Anyway, to cut the IMC fluff stuff, I've found that considering energies and elements to be the same thing solves problem. Of course, you need to accept you're going to have "air damage" (caused by wind and pressure), water damage (pressure again), earth damage (crushing, pelting, etc.)...For those who wonder what "light damage" could be, I refer you to the Lantern Archon's attack.Light Ray (Ex): A lantern archon’s light rays have a range of 30 feet. This attack overcomes damage reduction of any type.Of course it does, since it's an energy -- energy aren't affected by damage reduction.</blockquote>

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