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<blockquote data-quote="Murrdox" data-source="post: 2577554" data-attributes="member: 10131">By the rules, water simply does not damage a Fire Elemental.&quot;Water&quot; generally speaking - does not do damage in the D&amp;D world.&nbsp; That's why there are no &quot;Watery&quot; magical properties you can place on weapons which do an extra 1d6 &quot;Water&quot; damage.&nbsp; Water is simply not a harmful element, just like Air or Earth is not.&nbsp; Nothing in the game does &quot;Earth&quot; damage to anything else.Since Water is not a damaging property, it doesn't damage a Fire Elemental, nor anything else.However, damage properties aside...Water certainly has the property of &quot;Extinguishing Fire&quot;, but &quot;Fire&quot; in the conventional sense of the word is not the same as &quot;Fire Elemental&quot;.&nbsp; If an Elemental does not consume fuel or breathe, then in the conventional sense of the word, an Elemental is not composed of what we would consider to be mundane &quot;Fire&quot;.&nbsp; Thus there is nothing that says that water would do anything to extinguish it.If you want to house-rule it to be cool, then by all means.As a DM, I'd rule that a Fire Elemental who is dragged or summoned or pushed into water basically becomes helpless, and cannot move.&nbsp; I suppose he would float, or sink depending on how you view Fire Elementals, and he'd probably boil the water around him and thrash about a bit like a drowning victim.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Murrdox, post: 2577554, member: 10131"] By the rules, water simply does not damage a Fire Elemental. "Water" generally speaking - does not [b]do[/b] damage in the D&D world. That's why there are no "Watery" magical properties you can place on weapons which do an extra 1d6 "Water" damage. Water is simply not a harmful element, just like Air or Earth is not. Nothing in the game does "Earth" damage to anything else. Since Water is not a damaging property, it doesn't damage a Fire Elemental, nor anything else. However, damage properties aside... Water certainly has the property of "Extinguishing Fire", but "Fire" in the conventional sense of the word is not the same as "Fire Elemental". If an Elemental does not consume fuel or breathe, then in the conventional sense of the word, an Elemental is not composed of what we would consider to be mundane "Fire". Thus there is nothing that says that water would do anything to extinguish it. If you want to house-rule it to be cool, then by all means. As a DM, I'd rule that a Fire Elemental who is dragged or summoned or pushed into water basically becomes helpless, and cannot move. I suppose he would float, or sink depending on how you view Fire Elementals, and he'd probably boil the water around him and thrash about a bit like a drowning victim. [/QUOTE]

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