The Elemental Master

Elemental Master v0.6.1

A human stands against the evil wizard of old, you see fire sparking in his hand as he prepares for battle. How dare that wizard use the elements for this kind of vile magic? He prepares the bolt that he will throw at the enemy, hopefully killing them.
An elf lies in the forest, trying to forage, but under attack by a wild wolf. In an instant, the wolf will attack her and she has no way out. She reaches towards magics that she has been working on for months and in a last ditch effort throws out her hands. A giant blast of air blasts the wolf against a tree, knocking it out, saving the elf.
An orc stands against his old clan leader, ready to fight him. Today is the day, he takes over the clan. He has obtained power and is ready to use it. As the two orcs stare each other down, they both pull out their greataxes. However the orc has tricks, and uses his will to put his own axe on fire, prepared to burn and destroy the old man.
These masters of the elements can control the elements in different ways than normal casters. They spend their life understanding and controlling the elements. They feel different than normal humanoids, because they have lived their life in service to the elements. And all though most do not understand their connection to the elemental planes, all have one.
Some combine this service with the mastering of weapons, some still enjoy the ways that the elements get used on the material planes, learning to cast spells. A select few have learned how to combine their elemental power with their knowledge to create actual living things. Several others go further than their connection to the elemental planes, connecting to either the positive or negative energy plane to further their powers.

Class Features

As an Elemental Master you gain the following class features.

Proficiencies:

Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
Weapons: Simple weapons
Tools: One tool of your choice

Saving Throws: Wisdom, Strength
Skills: Choose three from Acrobatics, Athletics, Arcana, History, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Persuasion, Religion and Stealth

Equipment:

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background: • (a) leather armor or (b) scale mail
• (a) An explorer's pack or (b) a scholar's pack
• (a) a simple melee weapon or (b) a shield
• a simple melee weapon, a dagger

Elemental control

As an elemental master, you have a basic control of the elements. You are able to cast the elemental blast cantrip, detailed at the end of the class description. In addition, you can choose a basic elemental affinity. You can control all the elements, however you learn to feel more comfortable with all elements gradually as you gain experience. If any abilities in this class ask for a save DC or attack modifier, use the following:

Bursted blasts

When you reach level 2, you become able to use your own stored elemental energy, to upgrade the power of your elemental blast even further. If you have chosen a corresponding basic or combined elemental affinity, you will be allowed to increase the power of this affinity by giving up elemental affinity points. However, you can only spend a number of affinity points on one elemental blast, equal to your elemental master level divided by 4 rounded up, with a minimum of 1. You can spend affinity points after rolling your attack, but before you know if the attack hits or misses.

The specific boosts are:
Fire: For each affinity point spent, increase the fire damage dealt by 1d8.
Water: For each affinity point spent, increase the temporary hit points gained by an amount equal to your wisdom modifier.
Earth: For each affinity point spent, an additional creature can increase their AC by 1.
Air: For each affinity point spent, the target is pushed back 5 additional feet.
Ooze: For each affinity point spent, the target has disadvantage on one more attack made.
Cold: For each affinity point spent, the targets movement speed is decreased by 5 additional feet.
Smoke: For each affinity point spent, the poison damage increases by 1d8.
Magma: For each affinity point spent, the range of targets that have to make a dex save against this damage increases by 5 feet.

Quick Protection

When you reach level 2, you become able to use the elements to protect yourself. You are able to conjure up four different shields to protect yourself. You can use a bonus action to choose fire, water, air or earth and gain the corresponding effect. If you have the corresponding elemental affinity from the elemental control feature, you can also use the boosted effect of the feature.

Fire: You conjure up a small shield of fire around you. Whenever a creature attacks you with a melee attack, deal 1d4 fire damage to the target. Boosted effect: Increase this damage by your wisdom modifier. This effect lasts until the start of your next turn.
Water: You focus on the tranquility of the water around you, shielding your mind. Whenever you are forced to make an intelligence, wisdom or charisma saving throw, you can add a d4 to your roll. This effect lasts until the start of your next turn. Boosted effect:: If you are forced to make one of the affected saving throws, you can spend an affinity point to gain advantage on the save.

Earth: You use the earth to strengthen your body against incoming attacks. Whenever you are forced to make a strength, dexterity or constitution saving throw, you can add a d4 to your roll. This effect lasts until the start of your next turn. Boosted effect: if you are forced to make one of the affected saving throws, you can spend an affinity point to gain advantage on the save.
Air: You can use the air around you to block incoming attacks. Whenever a creature attacks you, you can force the target to roll a d4 and decrease their attack roll by that amount. This effect lasts until the start of your next turn. Boosted effect: you can spend one affinity point to give disadvantage on an attack against you.

Combat path

When you reach 3rd level your training in the elements starts becoming more clear. Allowing you to select the path you wish to travel with your powers.
You can select to become an Elemental warrior, allowing you to imbue weapons with the power of the elements.
You can choose the path of an elemental caster, furthering the magical power that flows through your veins.
Perhaps you are in touch with the positive plane, allowing you to combine your elemental strength with it, to become an Elemental Positive.
Did you connect to the negative plane, allowing your elemental strength to combine with it, presenting the path of an Elemental Negative.
Or maybe you were struck by lightning from the lightning elemental plane, following the path of the Lightning Lord.

Select one of these options, it will grant you additional features at level 3, 5, 7, 11 and 17.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level and again at 8th, 12th, 16th and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Tools of the trade

When you reach level 6, you can see the usage of the elements in even the most mundane things. Whenever you make an ability check, before rolling, you can choose to spend two affinity points, to get advantage on that check. If you are able to add your proficiency bonus to this check, you can choose to only spend 1 affinity point for the advantage.

Energy Container

When you reach 9th level, you can create a container out of earth, dirt, clay or some other material. This takes you an hour and 10 gp. Every long rest, or by spending 3 affinity points, if you have this container on you, you can fill it up with elemental energy from one of the basic elements of which you have the elemental affinity (as stated in the elemental control feature). According to the element, the container then gains the corresponding effect: Fire: As an action the person holding the container can open and throw it at any spot within 60 feet. Any creature within 15 feet of the target must make a dexterity saving throw, taking damage equal to a number of d6's. That number is equal to the elemental master's proficiency bonus. On a success, the target only takes half damage. Water: A person can absorb the energy in the container themselves as a bonus action or us it on another target in touch range as an action, regaining a number of hit points. That number is equal to a number of d4's equal to the elemental master's proficiency bonus. Earth: A person can absorb the energy in the container themselves as a bonus action or us it on another target in touch range as an action, they gain AC equal to the elemental master's proficiency bonus until the end of their next turn. Air: As an action, a creature can open the container, blowing away every target in a 30 feet cone. All those targets must make a strength saving throw or be blown away a number of feet equal to 5 ft * the elemental master's proficiency bonus.

Heightened mind

When you reach level 10, you start using the elements to protect your mind from specific ailments. You are able to spend 2 affinity points to remove one of the following status effects, if they would affect you, if you have the corresponding elemental affinity from the elemental control feature, you only have to spend 1 affinity point.:

• Restrained (Air) (as the wind has thought you to squirm out of any restraints)
• Paralyzed (Earth) (Your body can be moved by the earth itself, so paralyzing you does not matter)
• Frightened (Water) (The subtle relaxing sound of the water makes you think over your fears, realising that they are just in your head).
• Grappled (Fire) (The fire in your soul can come to the surface, making sure no one can hold you against your will).

Tongue of worlds

When you reach level 13, you have studied up on the languages spoken by elemental beings. You can speak the languages terran, aquan, ignan, auran and primordial. Additionally, if you share one of these languages with any creature, you can convey short messages to them through the elements themselves, allowing you to speak without speech, as long as the creature can see you.

Dimensional Soul

When you reach level 14, you have learned how to protect yourself against the dangers of the world. Every element gives you a new kind of protection. You get proficiency in all saving throws.

Primordial transformation

Once you reach level 15, you have learned so much about elementals, that you can even mimic the creatures themselves. After you have finished a long rest, choose either a fire elemental, water elemental, earth elemental or air elemental. Until you finish another long rest, you can transform into that elemental. You can use an action to transform into the elemental. At that point:

• Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the elemental, you only keep your alignment, personality, Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma scores.
• When you transform, you assume the elementals hit points. When you revert to your normal form, you return to the number of hit points you had before you transformed. However, if you revert as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to your normal form.
• You can't cast spells, and your ability to speak or take any action that requires hands is limited to the capabilities of your elemental form. Transforming doesn't break your concentration on a spell you've already cast, however, or prevent you from taking actions that are part of a spell, such as call lightning, that you've already cast.
• Your equipment merges into your new form. If you are into your elemental form, you can use a bonus action to transform back. In theory, you can transform into your elemental form an infinite number of times, however:
• Your elementals hit points remain the same between different transformations. If you revert to your original form while the elemental had 7 hit points, you transform back into the elemental at 7 hit points.
• During a short rest, your elemental form does not use hit dice to heal. Rather, you can use elemental affinity points to heal your elemental form for 1d10 per affinity point spent.
• When you start a short or long rest, you can not rest in your elemental form.
• When you finish the long rest, you can choose what type of elemental you can transform in (as mentioned in the beginning) and your elemental form's current hit points are reset to their maximum.

Planar travel

When you reach level 18, your connection to the elements has transcended into a connection to the elemental planes from which your power stems. You are able to cast the plane shift spell, at the cost of 4 affinity points. However, once you cast this spell, you must take a long rest until you can cast it again. Additionally, you can only travel to the elemental planes using this spell.

Ultimate blast

When you reach level 20, you learn how to control the ultimate elemental blast, however, it is still quite taxing on you.
You can now deal force damage whenever you cast the elemental blast cantrip. If you do, a burst of the four basic elements leaves your hands to attack the target.
In addition to the force damage you deal, you can also use all four of the basic elemental affinities listed in the elemental control feature.
If you also wish to burst this elemental blast attack, every affinity point you spend will activate all four burst abilities of these four basic elemental affinities.
You can use this feature a number of times up to your wisdom modifier (min. 1) until you must take a long rest to use it again.

Combat Paths

Residual energy

When you reach level 5, you start understanding how to weave your own elemental powers with the magic that you have learned from the world. Whenever you cast a spell of level 1 or above, you can cast elemental blast as a bonus action.

Strengthened affinity

Starting from level 7, whenever you cast elemental blast, you become able to combine the blast with small bits of energy from other elements.
You can spend any number of affinity points and add additional effects from the elemental control feature to your elemental blast. You spend 1 affinity point if you have the elemental affinity and 2 points if you do not have the elemental affinity. You can not use your elemental burst feature if you do this however.

Combined Strength

When you reach level 11, you are able to choose an additional combined elemental affinity from the elemental control feature.
Also, for both choices of the combined elemental affinity, you do not have to have the requirements for combined elemental affinities.

Meteor element

When you reach level 17, you have learned one of the strongest spells from the material plane.
You can now cast the "meteor swarm" spell at the cost of 9 affinity points. When you cast this spell, you can not cast it again until you finish a long rest.

Path of the positive energy

The elemental positive does not just draw their power from the elemental planes, but also from the positive plane. They are therefore able to cast radiant and holy magic, as well as using elemental powers.

Preserve Life

When you reach 7th level, you become capable of calling on the holy power to heal people.
You can spend any number of affinity points as an action. Whenever you do, choose any creature you can touch and heal them an amount of hit points equal to your wisdom modifier multiplied by the amount of affinity points you spent.
If the creature is blessed by the blessing from your radiance blast feature, you can use this feature on them while they are up to 30 feet away from you as well.

Save the dying

When you reach level 11, you have learned how to quickly save someone from death. Whenever a creature within 30 feet from you falls unconscious while you can see them, you can use your reaction to make them drop to 1 hit point instead. Once you use this feature, you can not use it again until you have had a long rest.
If the creature is blessed by the blessing from your radiance blast feature, then you can target that creature with this feature if they are within 120 feet and you don't need to be able to see them.

Ultimate positive

When you reach level 17, you have learned the ultimate in positive elemental magic. You can now cast the "Mass heal" spell at the cost of 9 affinity points. When you cast this spell, you can not cast it again until you finish a long rest.

Path of the Negative energy

The elemental negative is the flip side of the elemental positive. They draw their power from the negative energy plane, also known as the plane of death. This makes them darker characters, but still strengthens their elemental powers.

Path of the Lightning Lord

The lightning lord is a path followed by those who want to gain the power to control one of the most powerful elements in existence: lightning. These elemental masters are pretty close to those of the elemental positive masters. This because the quasi-elemental plane of lightning lies between the elemental plane of air and the positive elemental plane. But wielders of lightning are a lot more destructive than those of their counterparts.

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