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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roman" data-source="post: 3948374" data-attributes="member: 1845">Unlike elementals, humans are not the essence of flesh... I don't really find the arguments of why fire elementals should be harmed by fire very compelling. They are plausible, depending on game world,  and would be justifiable if immunities did not exist at all, but remember that immunities are not completely gone from the game and in such a case, elementals should have them. This is certainly not a dealbreaker for me as far 4E is concerned - it is just a nitpick. Sure, if necessary I could cook up a reason to justify fire elementals being vulnerable to fire. For example, it could be that fire elementals need fuel to burn, of which they have a certain inherent amounts stored. Being subjected to a fire of higher intensity than themselves burns their fuel up and thus harms them. Indeed, this could be a justification of why fire elementals just loooove to burn forests - they not only spread their element, but they also replenish their fuel supply! That would work and perhaps even be quite cool, but for a creature made up of say acid - well it may be more difficult to justify why acid hurts it. I guess it could be a chemically different type of acid, but still, it just seems arbitrary.</blockquote>