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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Filby" data-source="post: 922417" data-attributes="member: 7497">I believe I can answer this. These creatures are inhabitants of the Inner Planes - the planes of existance that form the basic building blocks of the material (elements) and the life and death(energy) of the Prime Material Plane (or just the 'Material Plane' in 3rd-ed.). I include here only 'true' elemental beings - basic living manifestations of their planes - and not other creatures with the 'Elemental' type, like belkers (MM) and stone spikes (MM2)The elementals come from the four elemental planes: earth, fire, air, and water. Their 3E stats are all included in the Monster Manual.The paraelementals come from the four paraelemental planes -  planes formed where two elemental planes touch: magma (earth and fire), smoke (fire and air), ice (or more appropriately 'cold' - air and water), and ooze (water and earth). Fire and water, and earth and air, do not touch. They all originally appeared in the Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix 3. All the paraelementals are included in 3E format in the Manual of the Planes.The quasielementals come from the eight quasielemental planes - planes formed where the elemental planes touch the energy planes: mineral (earth and positive energy), radiance (fire and positive energy), lightning (air and positive energy), steam (or more appropriately 'mist' - water and positive energy), dust (earth and negative energy), ash (fire and negative energy), vacuum (air and negative energy), and salt (water and positive energy). They also all appeared in the PS MC 3 (save the lightning quasielemental, which was drawn from the old adventure 'Through the Magic Mirror'). None of them have been converted to 3E, except for the lightning quasielemental, which is in the Creature Catalog.Also of note are the two (official) energons - creatures from the two energy planes: the xag-ya (positive energy) and xeg-yi (negative energy). They are from the 1E adventure 'Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth' and later appeared in the 2E PS MC 3. Both are in 3E in the Manual of the Planes.I should point out that, according to the Manual of the Planes, the paraelemental and quasielemental planes do not exist in the 3E cosmology. If you're going straight by the book, then the paraelementals and quasielementals can be found on both of the planes that make up their being, rather than having planes of their own.Hope that helps. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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