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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Badwe" data-source="post: 4516530" data-attributes="member: 61762">I am working on a campaign, and my long term goal is for the players to visit the elemental chaos.  In the elemental chaos, I intend for their to be an elaborate temple/fortress/dungeon for every element.  Not just classical/captain planet elements like fire/water/earth/wind, but also acid, ice,  poison, thunder, lightning or more abstract "elements" like necrotic, psychic, or even metals or stone.To this end, I will likely be creating many monsters as well as many new attacks.  I started to think about what it really means to be fire vs. ice or poison or thunder.  It can't merely change by damage type and be done.  So I began to wonder what mechanical aspects would certain elements tend towards.  Here are some ideas I've conjured so far, curious if anyone has any good ideas.  Ordered by likely importance.++Fire++-ongoing damage, more than most-melted armor -> penalties to AC-attacks reflex/AC more than fort or will-smoke causes blindness/obscures squares.++Ice++-slow or immobolized-increased vulnerability to future cold attacks-attacks fort or ref more than AC, least of all will.-icy squares are difficult terrain, or sliding rules++Thunder++-pushing/sliding or knocking prone-dazed or stunned, from loud attacks-burst or blast attacks resulting from regular attacks-strong winds cause penalties to ranged attacks-attacks AC/fort more than ref or will++Necrotic++-ongoing damage, more than most-power draining: weakened, stunned, penalties to AC or hit-attacks will and fort, maybe AC, likely not ref-darkness squares ala shadar-kai-focus on lurkers and skirmishersI have more but I don't want to taint what others might add with my own ideas.  Also if you don't agree with what I've concluded please say so! the important thing for me is a blend of thematics/mechanics, the players must FEEL like they're in an ice temple or a shadow temple.Also, any suggestions for races/creatures to use would be good.  Fire has plenty of candidates but for temples like Ice or Earth I find myself having to cut a wider swath.  For example, the Earth temple will have pyramid moments with mummies, scarabs/bugs, etc.1st Edit: Thanks Walter, I like your suggestions and had similar ideas for acid.  One of the hurdles in my personal brainstorming was differentiating magma-style fire from acid.  I think your gaseous idea is a step in the right direction.</blockquote>

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