Hello fellow gamers,
Okay here's a question for you guys. Recently, as a DM, I assaulted my adventuring party with an Air Elemental. Something I should learn not do because everytime I do I significiantly damage them (if not wipe some members out)!
Any hoo, I digress. At one point, the party's mage, casted Stinking Cloud on the Elemental. According to the MM, Elementals don't suffer from poison and don't breathe. So I said it had no effect.
The mage said "Nay! Nowhere in the spell description does it say the spell is either a poison or require the individual be breathing."
I countered with the arguement that while the spell may not specifically say those things it does hint at them (ex. spell components include rotten egg & skunk cabbage).
Of course my decsion was final, much to the dismay of the mage.
So, who was right in this scenario, the DM or the Player?
Okay here's a question for you guys. Recently, as a DM, I assaulted my adventuring party with an Air Elemental. Something I should learn not do because everytime I do I significiantly damage them (if not wipe some members out)!

Any hoo, I digress. At one point, the party's mage, casted Stinking Cloud on the Elemental. According to the MM, Elementals don't suffer from poison and don't breathe. So I said it had no effect.
The mage said "Nay! Nowhere in the spell description does it say the spell is either a poison or require the individual be breathing."
I countered with the arguement that while the spell may not specifically say those things it does hint at them (ex. spell components include rotten egg & skunk cabbage).
Of course my decsion was final, much to the dismay of the mage.
So, who was right in this scenario, the DM or the Player?