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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reanjr" data-source="post: 1797452" data-attributes="member: 20740">I need some ideas on ElementsI am revising the D&D Elemental system to include the opposing elements of Metal and Wood.  I have come up with many of the relationships between the six elements but am stuck on two of them.If you treat the Elements as a circle, Wood would come between Air and Water, while Metal comes between Fire and Earth.Opposing relationshipsFire - Water: Destructive oppositesEarth - Air: Exclusive opposites (they do not mix, but neither do they destroy one another)Wood - Metal: Ideological opposites (nature and industry)Consumption relationshipsFire feeds Metal (the fire is consumed and makes the metal red and hot)Water feeds WoodFire consumes WoodWater consumes Metal (rust; I know it's not quite correct, but it sounds good)Unnamed relationshipsMetal comes from the EarthWood comes from the Earth (in that it grows from it)Metal ___ AirWood ___ AirAs you can see, I need an analagous relationship of Metal to Air and Wood to Air.  Any ideas? (feel free to change the Metal-Earth and Wood-Earth relationships to fit)Or if you think Wood and Metal should go elsewhere or you can come up with entirely new relationships I haven't thought of.</blockquote>