D&D General other possible elements?

[Mind of tempest]

Agree. Definitely equate fire with plasma. Doing that allows the classical 'elements" to map neatly to the states of matter
fire->plasma
air-> gas
water -> liquid
earth -> solid

missing BEC

 

[Shardstone]

ah yes, the m1 abrams elementalist.

Real elementalists give their enemies cancer and play blackjack with in the Court of Noble Gasses.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Real elementalists give their enemies cancer and play blackjack with in the Court of Noble Gasses.

Just add sodium to your enemy's blood for explosive results.

 

[Shardstone]

Just add sodium to your enemy's blood for explosive results.

Now you're thinking like a proper elementalist.

 

[Yaarel]

Agree. Definitely equate fire with plasma. Doing that allows the classical 'elements" to map neatly to the states of matter
fire->plasma
air-> gas
water -> liquid
earth -> solid

Yeah, and there is even medieval precedence for Fire=plasma, with the alchemical "fire" being the "heavenly fire" of the sun and the "fire that burns fire". Plus, there is the oddity of the "dark fire" that is between the earth and the moon, in other words the plasmasphere.

It is amazing how accurate the medieval world can be with only careful observation and thought experiments.

 

[Baron Opal II]

It is amazing how accurate the medieval world can be with only careful observation and thought experiments.

Exactly, Aristotlean physics works well, because it's built on observation and experiments. However, once you get to "large" scales discrepancies grow. IIRC the main problems arise when you pay close attention to heavenly bodies and artillery. And odd things like octahedrons don't travel faster through air than spheres.

I sort of tried to run a world that ran on this physics model, but most of what would change wouldn't be anything observable on the PC scale.

 

[Bohandas]

Yeah, and there is even medieval precedence for Fire=plasma, with the alchemical "fire" being the "heavenly fire" of the sun and the "fire that burns fire". Plus, there is the oddity of the "dark fire" that is between the earth and the moon, in other words the plasmasphere.

Have you got a source for this. Google can't find it because wherever it is it's its buried under pages of songs containing lyrics of the general form "...fire that burns. Fire..." where the second "fire" is part of a new sentence

 

[Lakesidefantasy]

Surprise!
Truth?

 

[Lakesidefantasy]

missing BEC

And the Void could be the Bose-Einstein condensate.

 

[Tonguez]

And the Void could be the Bose-Einstein condensate.

When Game of Thrones introduced its undead ice dragon I had imagined it using a BECondensate Breath Weapon, calling it Void works too