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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7708440" data-attributes="member: 996">Sounds like an Invoker.&nbsp; Covenant of Wrath?D&amp;D has always seemed to have trouble with elements that aren't just about blasting things.&nbsp; Fire it steps right up and handles no problem.&nbsp; Air, if you count thunder &amp; lightning, it's OK with.&nbsp; Water ends up being ice-everything, because cold is a damage type.The associations of elemental water traditionally include a lot more than freezing things or knocking them over with a wave.&nbsp; Indeed, they /rarely/ include those things.&nbsp; The element of water has been associated with time (because of the tides, for instance), with life, with healing, with wisdom, with secrets, with strength, with yielding resilience, and so forth.&nbsp; So to answer the first question, if you have the elemental forces of water flowing through you, they could support life for you without eating and certainly without drinking.&nbsp; Without sleep?&nbsp; Well there's the wisdom &amp; depth aspects, maybe that allows you the benefits of sleep?&nbsp; It's just nice for a Sorcerer to get something/anything other than I blast you for X damage type, because element X.The other thing is that, aside from Earth, the Dragon sorcerer already had element-tossing sorcery covered.&nbsp; So everything in this UA is just covering ground that's already been touched on, either by the Dragon Sorcerer or by the prior UA Favored Soul.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7708440, member: 996"] Sounds like an Invoker. Covenant of Wrath? D&D has always seemed to have trouble with elements that aren't just about blasting things. Fire it steps right up and handles no problem. Air, if you count thunder & lightning, it's OK with. Water ends up being ice-everything, because cold is a damage type. The associations of elemental water traditionally include a lot more than freezing things or knocking them over with a wave. Indeed, they /rarely/ include those things. The element of water has been associated with time (because of the tides, for instance), with life, with healing, with wisdom, with secrets, with strength, with yielding resilience, and so forth. So to answer the first question, if you have the elemental forces of water flowing through you, they could support life for you without eating and certainly without drinking. Without sleep? Well there's the wisdom & depth aspects, maybe that allows you the benefits of sleep? It's just nice for a Sorcerer to get something/anything other than I blast you for X damage type, because element X. The other thing is that, aside from Earth, the Dragon sorcerer already had element-tossing sorcery covered. So everything in this UA is just covering ground that's already been touched on, either by the Dragon Sorcerer or by the prior UA Favored Soul. [/QUOTE]

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