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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6948009" data-attributes="member: 996">The classic elements were also Spheres in 2e, IIRC, and Domains in later eds.  In 3e & 4e you could use various feats and the like to construct 'builds' around an element, if you wanted.  Post-Essentials, there as a whole book, Heroes of the Elemental Chaos, with elemental options:  classes focused on the elements or an element (most notably, IMHO, a Sorcerer sub-class that focused on an element, and was a powerful, 'simple' striker with strong at-wills, no choice of encounter powers, and no dailies, in the mold of the martial sub-classes in HotFL), elemental Themes, including single-element affinities and even the Primordial Adept, linked to the godlike elementals who were the runners up in the Dawn War, feats, elemental familiars, etc, etc...In 5e, the Dragon Sorcerer is a modest stab at the elementalist concept, though it's best-supported for the Red Dragon Scion (ie fire) option.  Expanding spell choices appropriate to different elements would be one way to go.  Another would be a Dragon Sorcerer feature or a feat that allowed an elemental-specialist caster to change damage types of his spells to match his elemental affinity (perhaps at the price of not being able to change them back, or even not being able to use an 'opposed' element, at all).Sounds very reasonable.Have you read Jim Butcher's Chronicles of Alera (the first book or two, anyway)?  Interesting take on Elemental magic doing more than just controlling the base element in obvious blasty ways.  Air, Earth, Fire, Water, Metal, Wood.</blockquote>

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