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Message: <blockquote data-quote="azhrei_fje" data-source="post: 3835301" data-attributes="member: 12966">Okay, so for question 1A you're saying that being 100% inside the rock -- except for an appendage appearing during an attack -- is worth the standard +4 AC for cover when attacked.  But if it's completely obscured, shouldn't it be like attacking an invisible creature?  (Pick a square and hope for the best.)  And because the creature is inside solid stone, those on the outside do not have line-of-effect, right?  Nor do they have live-of-sight unless they can see through stone?  And even if they have a ring of x-ray vision or something similar, what do they see?  Stone within stone?  Would the elemental just appear to look like he alien in the Predator movie with its cloaking enabled?What about 1B?  Does the creature have to step out of the rock in order to make its own attacks?I really need some HELP!! grasping what effects the author(s) of the MM was trying to give the earth elemental.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /></blockquote>

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