Elementalist: class details

An Elementalist is a being that has become harnessed to a wounded elemental, granting them powers of the primoridial forces of the world, though at a great risk to their own bodies. As they grow in power, they become something quite other than who they were, as they drift away from the material plane and into a very different realm of experience and existence. The futher along and elementalist is in their journey to understand themselves the stranger and more eccentric they can come across, but if you need someone to wield the world itself as a weapon with a natural talent that even sorcerers envy, there are few better allies.

Class Features

As an elementalist, you gain the following class features:

Planar Hop

At 6th level you gain the ability to quickly jump yourself to the very edges of the plane you draw your powers from, before springing back to the material plane, potentially with a slightly renewed vigor. You add elemental blink to your spell list.

Express Essence

When you reach 7th level you can project part of your essence outside your body. As an action, you summon part of your essence as an elemental beast (CR 3) that lasts for 1 minute, until it drops to 0 hit points, or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell). The elemental is of the same type as the one soulbound to you, and appears in an unoccupied space that you can see within 30 feet of you. As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the expression up to 30 feet to a space you can see, but it must remain within 60 feet of you.

For the duration, you can cast spells as though you were in the expression’s space, and you can choose to see through its eyes, though this renders you blind. You can use your bonus action to mentally command your expression to take the Attack, Dash, Disengage, or Help action. If you don't issue a command, the expression takes the Dodge action. If you take damage while the expression is within 10 feet of you, you can choose to have it roll a dexterity saving throw. On a success, it immediately switches places with you, taking the damage in your stead.

Additionally, when both you and your expression are within 5 feet of a creature, you both have advantage on attack rolls against that creature.

If your expression drops to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to you.

You can’t use this feature again until you finish a short rest.

Lasting Dominance

You have bent your elemental to your will. Whenever you fail a a constitution saving throw to increase your soul points, you gain all of the points you were attempting to plus one, even if doing so would take you over your normal maximum. This temporary soul point disappears at the end of your next turn.

True Incarnation

When you reach 15th level, you and your elemental have gained the control and understanding of each other to allow you to use your Elemental Embodiment feature to become a being that is greater than the sum of its parts. You can choose to expend four soul points to assume the form and powers of a greater elemental (CR9) of the same type as the elemental soulbound to you (see below for statistics).

Living Gate

From 18th level, you have become a true conduit for the powers of the elemental plane that is aligned to your soul. Your ability to travel to and from that plane improves significantly as you gain the power to cast elemental gate.

Primordiosis

At 20th level, your soul and the elemental within you have completely subsumed one another, and you can subtract your constitution modifier from any soulburn damage that you take (to a minimum of 0).

You also gain the following abilities, depending on your elemental type, which apply to both your normal form and your elemental form:

Water

• You are immune to cold damage and have resistance to fire damage,
• When you take damage, as a reaction you can summon a block of ice to lessen the damage, giving yourself 10 temporary hit points that are added before you subtract the damage dealt to you,
• You can stand on and move across any liquid surface as if it were solid ground.

Spellcasting as an Elementalist

Elementalists don't use magic like most spellcasters, as their power comes from the wounded elemental bound to their soul and, as such, wielding elementalist powers is not for the faint-hearted.

Elemental Souls

Although there are similarities between any elementalist, the different types of elemental they draw their powers from give them very distinct abilities.

An elementalist with a soul of air may seem to barely touch the material plane, treading their path as if gravity is uninterested in them, while those with a soul of water carry themselves with a confidence that communicates their ability to adapt to any situation. A soul of earth often imparts a seemingly limitless patience, as well as a stubbornness that will brook no obstacle. Hardest to hide are the effects of a soul of fire: those who find themselves entwined with a being of flame become imbued with so much energy that it pains them, and find their passions in all areas of life to be quickly kindled. Choose the soul that best fits the story you want you character to weave.

Deflect Missiles

Starting at 6th level, you can use your reaction to deflect or catch the missile when you are hit by a ranged weapon attack. When you do so, the damage you take from the attack is reduced by 1d10 + your Dexterity modifier + your elementalist level.

If you reduce the damage to 0, you can catch the missile if it is small enough for you to hold in one hand and you have at least one hand free. If you catch a missile in this way, you can spend 1 soul point to make a ranged attack with the missile you just caught, as part of the same reaction. You make this attack with proficiency, regardless of your weapon proficiencies, and the missile counts as a dart for the attack, which has a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet.

Lighter than Air

From 10th level, an elementalist with a soul of air never takes fall damage while they are not incapacitated. In addition your long jump becomes equal to your movement, and you do not need a running start.

Nimble Recoil

Beginning at 13th level, when damaged by a melee attack after taking damage you may use your reaction to disengage and jump a distance up to your walking speed in any direction. This movement does not count towards any of your ordinary movement in this round.

Breeze Sense

When you reach 17th level, you have become so attuned to the minute variations in the air that you have almost perfect awareness of what happens in the area surrounding you. You gain blindsight for a 30 foot radius around you.

Soul of Fire

Soul of Earth

Soul of Water

Shivers

Beginning at 6th level, when you cause water to hit another creature with any of your abilities, you may expend a soul point (on top of the cost of the spell or ability, if there is a cost) to chill the water, and deal an additional 3d6 damage. The target must also make a constitution saving throw, (DC equals the amount of cold damage they take from this ability). On a failure they become incapacitated by shivering until the end of their next turn.

Aquatic

From 10th level, you can breathe water as easily as air, and can slake your thirst with both fresh and salt water. In addition, being underwater imposes no penalties on your movement or attacks.

Unhindered Flow

By the time you reach 13th level, your movement has become unaffected by non-magical difficult terrain, and you gain the ability to expend a soul point to automatically succeed on saving throws against spells and other magical effects that reduce your speed or cause you to be paralyzed or restrained. This must be done instead of making the saving throw, not afterwards.

You can also spend 5 feet of movement to automatically escape from nonmagical restraints, such as manacles or a creature that has you grappled.

Aqua Vitae

From 17th level, you can use your connection to water to regain lost health. If you are in physical contact with a body of water, you can use a bonus action to siphon and absorb a gallon of water and regain hit points equal to 2d4 + your constitution modifier. You can use this ability a number of times equal to half your elementalist level (rounded down). Your uses of this ability replenish when you take a long rest.

Earth

Water

Elemental Forms

Minor Earth Elemental

Medium elemental, neutral

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• Armor Class 16 (Natural Armor)
• Hit Points 51 (d610 + 18)
• Speed 10 ft., (30 ft. while moving downhill),
• burrow 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
18 (+4)	6 (-2)	17 (+3)	3 (-4)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)

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• Damage Vulnerabilities Thunder
• Damage Resistances Bludgeoning, Piercing, and
• Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
• Damage Immunities Poison
• Condition Immunities Exhaustion, Paralyzed,
• Petrified, Poisoned, Unconscious
• Senses Darkvision 60 ft., Tremorsense 60 ft.,
• Passive Perception 10
• Languages Understands Terran but can't speak

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Downhill Roller. Your walking speed increases to 30 while moving downhill. If you move at least 15 feet straight towards a target and then hit it with a slam attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 7 (2d6) bludgeoning damage.

Earth Glide. You can burrow through nonmagical, unworked earth and stone. While doing so, you doesn't disturb the material you move through.

Innate Spellcasting. As a minor earth elemental, your innate spellcasting ability is Strength (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks), and you can innately cast any cantrip or first level spell from the Elementalist (Earth) Spell List.

Actions

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage.

Minor Water Elemental

Medium elemental, neutral

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• Armor Class 13 (Natural Armor)
• Hit Points 45 (6d10 + 12)
• Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
15 (+2)	8 (-1)	14 (+2)	3 (-4)	18 (+4)	8 (-1)

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• Damage Resistances Acid; Bludgeoning, Piercing,
• and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
• Damage Immunities Poison
• Condition Immunities Exhaustion, Grappled,
• Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned, Prone, Restrained,
• Unconscious
• Senses Darkvision 60 ft., Passive Perception 14
• Languages Understands Aquan but can't speak

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Water Form. You can enter a hostile creature's space and stop there. You can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.

Innate Spellcasting. As a minor water elemental, your innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 15, +7 to hit with spell attacks), and you can innately cast any cantrip or first level spell from the Elementalist (Water) Spell List.

Freeze. If you take cold damage, you partially freeze; your speed is reduced by 20 feet and you add 7 (2d6) bludgeoning damage to any melee damage you deal until the end of your next turn.

Actions

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d8 + 2) bludgeoning damage. The target must also succeed on a DC 11 Strength saving throw or be pushed 5 feet in a direction of your choice.

Whelm (Recharge 5-6). Each creature in your space must make a DC 13 Strength saving throw. On a failure, if it is Medium or smaller, it is grappled. Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained and unable to breathe unless it can breathe water. If the saving throw is successful, the target is pushed out of your space and takes 7 (2d6) bludgeoning damage.

You can grapple one Medium creature or up to two smaller creatures at one time. While you are grappling any creature or object, your speed is halved.

A creature grappled in this may may attempt to escape on their turn by taking an action to make a Stength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check, contested by your Athletics check (+5). On a success the grapple ends, on a failure nothing happens. A creature within 5 feet of you can pull a creature or object out of the grapple by taking an action to make a contested Strength check against you and succeeding.

Elemental Beasts (CR3)

Rockboar

Medium elemental, neutral

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• Armor Class 15 (Natural Armor)
• Hit Points 85 (10d10 + 30)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
19 (+4)	10 (+0)	17 (+3)	3 (-4)	7 (-2)	5 (-3)

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• Damage Vulnerabilities Thunder
• Damage Immunities Poison
• Damage Resistances Lightning, Bludgeoning,
• Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
• Senses Passive Perception 8
• Languages Terran

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Charge. If the rockboar moves at least 20 feet straight toward a target and then hits it with a tusk attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 7 (2d6) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.

Pack Tactics. The rockboar has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the rockboar's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.

Relentless (1/Day). If the rockboar takes 10 damage or less that would reduce it to 0 hit points, it is reduced to 1 hit point instead.

Actions

Tusk. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage.

Waterbear

Medium elemental, neutral

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• Armor Class 14 (Natural Armor)
• Hit Points 85 (10d10 + 30)
• Speed 40 ft., swim 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
18 (+4)	10 (+0)	16 (+3)	5 (-3)	13 (+1)	7 (-2)

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• Damage Vulnerabilities Lightning
• Damage Immunities Poison
• Damage Resistances Fire, Bludgeoning, Piercing, and
• Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
• Senses Passive Perception 13
• Languages Aquan

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Pack Tactics. The waterbear has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the waterbear's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.

Reckless. At the start of its turn, the waterbear can gain advantage on all melee weapon attack rolls during that turn, but attack rolls against it have advantage until the start of its next turn.

Actions

Multiattack. The waterbear makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its claws.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d8 + 4) piercing damage.

Slash. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage.

Medium Elementals (CR5)

Earth Elemental

Medium elemental, neutral

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• Armor Class 17 (Natural Armor)
• Hit Points 114 (12d10 + 48)
• Speed 30 ft., burrow 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
20 (+5)	8 (-1)	19 (+4)	5 (-3)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)

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• Damage Vulnerabilities Thunder
• Damage Resistances Bludgeoning, Piercing, and
• Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
• Damage Immunities Poison
• Condition Immunities Exhaustion, Paralyzed,
• Petrified, Poisoned, Unconscious
• Senses Darkvision 60 ft., Tremorsense 60 ft.,
• Passive Perception 10
• Languages Terran

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Earth Glide. You can burrow through nonmagical, unworked earth and stone. While doing so, you don't disturb the material you move through.

Innate Spellcasting. As an earth elemental, your innate spellcasting ability is Strength (spell save DC 17, +9 to hit with spell attacks), and you can innately cast any cantrip, first, or second level spell from the Elementalist (Earth) Spell List.

Siege Monster. You deal double damage to objects and structures.

Actions

Multiattack. You make two slam attacks.

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage.

Water Elemental

Medium elemental, neutral

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• Armor Class 14 (Natural Armor)
• Hit Points 102 (12d10 + 36)
• Speed 30 ft., swim 90 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
17 (+3)	10 (+0)	16 (+3)	5 (-3)	20 (+5)	8 (-1)

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• Damage Resistances Acid; Bludgeoning,
• Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
• Damage Immunities Poison
• Condition Immunities Exhaustion, Grappled,
• Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned, Prone, Restrained,
• Unconscious
• Senses Darkvision 60 ft., Passive Perception 15
• Languages Aquan

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Water Form. You can enter a hostile creature's space and stop there. You can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.

Innate Spellcasting. As a water elemental, your innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 17, +9 to hit with spell attacks), and you can innately cast any cantrip, first, or second level spell from the Elementalist (Water) Spell List.

Freeze. If you take cold damage, you partially freeze; your speed is reduced by 20 feet and you add 10 (3d6) bludgeoning damage to any melee damage you deal until the end of your next turn.

Actions

Multiattack. You make two slam attacks.

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) bludgeoning damage.

Whelm (Recharge 4–6). Each creature in your space must make a DC 15 Strength saving throw. On a failure, if it is Large or smaller, it is grappled. Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained and unable to breathe unless it can breathe water. If the saving throw is successful, the target is pushed out of your space and takes 10 (3d6) bludgeoning damage.

You can grapple one Large creature or up to two Medium or smaller creatures at one time. While you are grappling any creature or object, your speed is halved.

A creature grappled in this may may attempt to escape on their turn by taking an action to make a Stength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check, contested by your Athletics check (+7). On a success the grapple ends, on a failure nothing happens. A creature within 5 feet of you can pull a creature or object out of the grapple by taking an action to make a contested Strength check against you and succeeding.

Dire Ememental Beasts (CR6)

Stonetiger

Large elemental, neutral

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• Armor Class 17 (Natural Armor)
• Hit Points 147 (14d10 + 70)
• Speed 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
20 (+5)	14 (+2)	20 (+5)	3 (-4)	12 (+1)	8 (-1)

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• Damage Vulnerabilities Thunder
• Damage Immunities Poison
• Damage Resistances Lightning, Bludgeoning,
• Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
• Senses Darkvision 60 ft., Tremorsense 60 ft.,
• Passive Perception 13
• Languages Terran

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Pounce. If the stonetiger moves at least 20 ft. straight toward a creature and then hits it with a claw attack on the same turn, that target must succeed on a DC 16 Strength or Dexterity saving throw or be knocked prone. If the target is prone, the stonetiger can make one additional bite attack against it as a bonus action.

Actions

Multiattack. The stonetiger makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its claws.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 10 (1d10 + 5) piercing damage.

Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) slashing damage.

Deep Serpent

Large elemental, neutral

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• Armor Class 16 (Natural Armor)
• Hit Points 133 (14d10 + 56)
• Speed 40 ft., swim 80 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
18 (+4)	19 (+4)	18 (+4)	5 (-3)	13 (+1)	7 (-2)

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• Damage Vulnerabilities Lightning
• Damage Immunities Poison
• Damage Resistances Fire, Bludgeoning, Piercing, and
• Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
• Senses Passive Perception 13
• Languages Aquan

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Amphibious. The deep serpent can breathe air and water.

Actions

Multiattack. The deep serpent makes two attacks, only one of which can be a constrict attack.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) piercing damage.

Constrict. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 16). Until this grapple ends, the creature is restrained, and the deep serpent can't constrict another target.

Major Elementals (CR8)

Terran Paradigm

Large elemental, neutral

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• Armor Class 18 (Natural Armor)
• Hit Points 168 (16d10 + 80)
• Speed 30 ft.,
• burrow 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
23 (+6)	12 (+1)	20 (+5)	6 (-2)	14 (+2)	10 (+0)

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• Damage Vulnerabilities Thunder
• Damage Resistances Bludgeoning, Piercing, and
• Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
• Damage Immunities Poison
• Condition Immunities Exhaustion, Paralyzed,
• Petrified, Poisoned, Unconscious
• Senses Darkvision 60 ft., Tremorsense 60 ft.,
• Passive Perception 12
• Languages Terran

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Earth Glide. You can burrow through nonmagical, unworked earth and stone. While doing so, you don't disturb the material you move through.

Innate Spellcasting. As a terran paradigm, your innate spellcasting ability is Strength (spell save DC 19, +11 to hit with spell attacks), and you can innately cast any cantrip, first, second, or third level spell from the Elementalist (Earth) Spell List.

Siege Monster. You deal double damage to objects and structures.

Actions

Multiattack. You make three slam attacks.

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (2d8 + 6) bludgeoning damage.

Earthshaker Punch (Recharge 4–6). You strike the air in front of you, creating a 30-foot cone of force starting from you in a direction of your choosing. Each creature in that area must make a DC 25 Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 16 (3d10) thunder damage and 18 (4d8 force damage) on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A creature that fails the save by 5 or more is knocked prone. If any creature is within 5 feet of an object or structure that is damaged by this ability, it takes a further 14 (4d6) bludgeoning damage from debris.

Aquan Paradigm

Large elemental, neutral

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• Armor Class 16 (Natural Armor)
• Hit Points 152 (16d10 + 64)
• Speed 30 ft., swim 90 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
20 (+5)	12 (+1)	18 (+4)	7 (-2)	23 (+6)	10 (+0)

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• Damage Resistances Acid; Bludgeoning, Piercing,
• and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
• Damage Immunities Poison
• Condition Immunities Exhaustion, Grappled,
• Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned, Prone, Restrained,
• Unconscious
• Senses Darkvision 60 ft., Passive Perception 16
• Languages Aquan

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Pure Water Form. You can enter a hostile creature's space and stop there. You can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. In addition, you can use a bonus action to become invisible while fully immersed in water.

Freeze. If you take cold damage, you partially freeze; your speed is reduced by 20 feet until the end of your next turn and you add 14 (4d6) bludgeoning damage to any melee damage you deal.

Innate Spellcasting. As an aquan paradigm, your innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 19, +11 to hit with spell attacks), and you can innately cast any cantrip, first, second, or third level spell from the Elementalist (Water) Spell List.

Actions

Multiattack. You make three slam attacks.

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage.

Whelm (Recharge 3–6). Each creature in your space must make a DC 17 Strength saving throw. On a failure, if it is Large or smaller, it is grappled. Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained and unable to breathe unless it can breathe water. If the saving throw is successful, the target is pushed out of your space and takes 14 (4d6) bludgeoning damage.

You can grapple one Large creature or up to two smaller creatures at one time. While you are grappling any creature your speed is halved.

A creature grappled in this may may attempt to escape on their turn by taking an action to make a Stength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check, contested by your Athletics check (+10). On a success the grapple ends, on a failure nothing happens. A creature within 5 feet of you can pull a creature or object out of the grapple by taking an action to make a contested Strength check against you and succeeding.