Elemental (5A)

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This is a Bogeyman subclass.

The dance of flames. The soaring of the wind. The shaking of the earth. The roar of angry waves. These are me and my allies. Your puny forces stand no chance!

As an elemental, you manifest the wrath of nature itself, the way you conceal your presence is by shrinking to tiny size.

Source: Original.

Subclass Features

Elemental Nature

At 1st level when you choose this subclass, your creature type becomes elemental. You must determine an elemental affiliation, choosing one or rolling randomly:

Element (d4)

1. Air
2. Earth
3. Fire
4. Water

You keep the general shape of your race but are made up of elemental matter. You cannot conceal your elemental nature, your elemental effects are always perceptible. You do not need to eat, breathe, or sleep, but you still need short and long rests to recover. Beyond this, each type of elemental have their own distinctive traits.

Air As an air elemental, you gain a fly speed equal to your lands speed. You learn the Auran language. If you already know Auran, you learn Primordial instead. Your Dark Strike attacks do bludgeoning damage. You are immune to lightning, poison, and thunder damage.

Earth As an earth elemental, you have the Earth Glide ability. You can burrow through nonmagical, unworked earth and stone. While doing so, you don't disturb the material it moves through, but you become blind and disoriented while entirely inside earth. This means that you must always remain adjacent to an open space or become lost. You learn the Terram language. If you already know Terram, you learn Primordial instead. Your Dark Strike attacks do bludgeoning damage. You are immune to poison damage.

Fire As a fire elemental you are weightless. You can walk on and climb surfaces that could not carry a normal creature's weight, including the surface of liquids. You learn the Ignan language. If you already know Ingan, you learn Primordial instead. You shed bright light in a radius equal to your reach and dim light twice as far. As a bonus action, you can suppress this light entirely or trippel the radius of this light until the end of your next turn. Your Dark Strike attacks deal fire damage. You are immune to fire and poison damage.

Water As a water elemental you gain a swim speed equal to your land speed. You learn the Aquan language. If you already know Aquan, you learn Primordial instead. Your Dark Strike does bludgeoning damage. You are immune to acid and poison damage.

Hostile Environment: Water

Elementals do not prosper in environments dominated by element other than their own. This is particularly true underwater. Elementals do not risk drowning, but that is just about their only advantage underwater. Air elementals cannot use their fly speed underwater and must swim like a land creature. Earth elementals cannot swim at all, they have to walk along the bottom. Fire elementals can swim, but remember that creatures that are under the water gain resistance to fire damage and that the Dark Strike attacks of elementals suffer disadvantage unless the elemental has a swim speed. Of course water elementals are supremely at home underwater and suffer none of these disadvantages. See Underwater Combat in the Combat rules.

Size Change

At 1st level, you take a bonus action to change your size or return to your natural size. This ability gradually improves as you increase in level. In order to use this ability, there must be enough room for the new size you wish to assume.

At 1st level you can become Tiny. With this shape your Dark Strike attacks only do half damage. The main use of this size is that you appear harmless. As you will generally be seen as someone's familiar or pet and as long as you are accompanied you won't attract much attention.

At level 6 you can assume Small or Medium size. This does not change your abilities.

At level 11 you can become Large. Your space and natural reach becomes 10 feet. Your Dark Strike attacks do two Dark Strike dice of damage.

At level 20 you can become Huge. Your space and natural reach becomes 15 feet. Your Dark Strike attacks do three Dark Strike dice of damage.

Condition Immunities

At 3rd level you become immune to exhaustion and the grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, and unconscious conditions.

Elemental Resistance

At 6th level you gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from non-magical attacks.

Elemental Movement

At 7th level you gain abilities dependent on your element.

As an air elemental your flight speed gains hover.

As an earth elemental you gain tremorsense with a range of 60 feet. This allows you to navigate through the earth as long as you are within 60 feet of an open space.

As a fire or water elemental you gain the ability to move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.

Elemental Manifestation

At 15th level you gain an ability depending on your element. After using this ability you cannot use it again until the end of a long or short rest.

As an air elemental you can take an action to change into a whirlwind until the end of your current turn. As a whirlwind you can move into the space of hostile creatures at no extra cost in movement. Each creature in your space at any point during your turn must make a Strength saving throw against your Dark Power save DC. On a failure, a target takes four Dark Strike dice bludgeoning damage and is flung to a random spot just outside your reach and knocked prone. If a thrown target strikes an object, such as a wall or floor, the target takes 1d6 bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it was thrown. If the target is thrown at another creature, that creature must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw or take 1d6 bludgeoning damage per 10 feet target was thrown and be knocked prone. If the saving throw is successful, the target takes half the bludgeoning damage and isn’t flung away or knocked prone.

As an earth elemental you take an action to cause an earth tremor. Intense tremors to rip through the ground in all directions out to three times your reach. Any creature on the ground in this area must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Dark Power save DC or take four Dark Strike dice bludgeoning and be knocked prone.

As a fire elemental you can use an action to cause a firestorm. You emit a fan of flame out to double your reach in all directions. Enemies in this area must turn must make a Dexterity saving throw against your Dark Power save DC or take four Dark Strike dice fire damage and ignite. A creature that passes its saving throw takes half damage and does not ignite. An ignited creature is burning and takes 5 (1d10) fire damage at the end of each of its turns. A creature can use an action to end the effect, and any amount of cold damage will put out the fire.

As a water elemental you can take an action to change into a great wave until the end of your current turn. As a wave you can move into the space of hostile creatures at no extra cost in movement. Each creature in your space at any point during your turn must make a Strength saving throw against your Dark Power save DC. On a failure, a target takes four Dark Strike dice bludgeoning damage. If the creature is of your current size or smaller, it is also grappled. You can maintain this grapple even after you resume your normal form. As long as a creature remains grappled it is held underwater inside your space. The only action a grappled creature can take is to attempt to escape the grapple. A creature within 5 feet of you can take an action to attempt a Strength (Athletics) check against your against your Dark Power save DC to end the grapple. You can only grapple a creatures as long as there is room for their space inside your space, and you can move at normal speed carrying creatures grappled this way. When the grapple ends creatures are moved to the nearest open space. You can attack creatures grappled this way using your Dark Strike attacks.

Designer's Comments

Obviously based on the Genie warlock patron. The ability to grant wishes is balanced by the fact that the wisher may lose the ability to ever wish again.