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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kelleris" data-source="post: 2780931" data-attributes="member: 19130">You're free to interpret it that way, but the core rules seem to indicate otherwise.  The definition of an elemental is "a being composed of one of the four classical elements" and the type's immunity to critical hits and flanking strongly indicates that it consists of one undifferentiated mass.  Not to mention that the immunity to poison, sleep effects, paralysis, and stunning and lack of a need to eat, sleep, or breathe strongly indicates that elementals don't have anything like a human(oid) biology of the sort that doesn't need to assume some sort of magical metabolism (like that of an undead creature or construct).  And the elemental type, like the outsider type, is supposed to lack a dual nature - "its soul and body form one unit."  Something made entirely out of soul-stuff from the elemental plane of whatever (fire, in this case) certainly sounds to me like something "made" of magic, insofar as anything can be "made of magic" and still be considered an autonomous creature.Now, all this is not to say that the four-creature-type approach catches everything - you'd need a house rule to have the antimagic abilities to affect living spells (which are oozes), of all things - but it covers 90% of the things I think it should cover and only leaves out a small fraction of things for which a case could be made.  So it's a good compromise between parsimony and completeness.  It would certainly be more trouble than it's worth to have an "abnormality list" that couldn't possibly cover everything that every DM wanted to use anyway.Ahem.   So, that dissertation aside...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I highly doubt it, unfortunately.  Unless a couple of hundred more people up and decide to buy the book in the near future, sequels will probably not be worth the time for me to write and the resources for ENP to publish.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />   But here's hoping, eh?</blockquote>

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