D&D (2024) The Multiverse in the 2024 Players Handbook

[Mind of tempest]

Not sure what you mean.

Not the first really, but I'm fine with the second.

I've started moving towards more para-elementals as I feel the classical elements are over-done for me. But, I absolutely agree that they need some jazz. 2000 years of tradition and lore is hard to replace.

I've gone with:
Mist - Air/Water (Infiltration, Moist, Cold, Ephemeral)
Clay - Water/Earth (Mutable, Foison, Fertile, Potential)
Magma - Earth/Fire (Sporadic, Explosive, Metal, Hot)
Radiance - Fire/Air (Rapid, Warm, Color, Expansive)
Salt - Water/Fire (Dross, Preservation, Lingering, Dry)
Dust - Earth/Air (Entropic, Spreading, Abrasive, Clinging)


Salts are the products of acids, but that's pedantic.

my suggestion is that there is nothing about myth and science that can't be blended in dnd, we have ray guns in the dmg.
it is more tha the para elementals are mostly just physical combinations, you complain about science yet do the same there is no myth to salt or dust you need something with themes

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Shadow elementals appeared in Dragon magazine, and Taint elemental in "Heroes of Horror".

 

[Yaarel]

Shadow elementals appeared in Dragon magazine, and Taint elemental in "Heroes of Horror".

In 5e, these Shadow elementals would be creatures originating from the Shadowfell, specifically the Deep Shadow, and having the Undead creature type.

A similar concept might instead be an Earth-Water paraelemental of "Cold" and "darkness" and without deathly connotations.



In the 3e Unearthed Arcana, "Taint" is the warping of reality by extreme Evil. It is sort of like the corruption of reality by the Farrealms. The 4e "Fell Taint" is explicitly an Aberration. But I prefer the concept be reality getting nightmarish rather than a particular kind of creature.

Fortunately, designers today seem know what the term "taint" means, slang for the area of the crotch between the anus and the genitals. So we are unlikely to see the word "taint" in D&D again.

 

[Micah Sweet]

In 5e, these Shadow elementals would be creatures originating from the Shadowfell, specifically the Deep Shadow, and having the Undead creature type.

A similar concept might instead be an Earth-Water paraelemental of "Cold" and "darkness" and without deathly connotations.



In the 3e Unearthed Arcana, "Taint" is the warping of reality by extreme Evil. It is sort of like the corruption of reality by the Farrealms. The 4e "Fell Taint" is explicitly an Aberration. But I prefer the concept be reality getting nightmarish rather than a particular kind of creature.

Fortunately, designers today seem know what the term "taint" means, slang for the area of the crotch between the anus and the genitals. So we are unlikely to see the word "taint" in D&D again.

Too bad. It worked very well in Legend of the Five Rings. I blame society for this.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Too bad. It worked very well in Legend of the Five Rings. I blame society for this.

blight is still an option