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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 7219896" data-attributes="member: 6775031">I can only tell you what I've seen. In most cases, when encountering a monster made of living fire, the heroes need to think outside the box. Most resort to fighting fire with water. In video games, swords tend to work as well as anything else. Shadowrun says that you can't shoot a fire elemental, but any melee weapon (or unarmed combat) works well because it channels your living willpower, and that's the closest I've seen to an explanation for it. Fighting fire with fire has never been a thing in fantasy, though, as far as I can tell. That's just the accepted physics of magical fire monsters.This isn't Pokemon GO where you can only know two attacks, and immunities are demoted to resistances since you would otherwise have no options. If a pyromancer encounters a fire elemental, then all you need is one spell or cantrip that isn't fire-based, and you're back to participating in the fight. If you aren't even willing to prepare a single option to deal with the inevitability of fighting a fire elemental, then you're being silly, just as much as a barbarian is silly for not owning a single ranged weapon.</blockquote>