Lava Elemental: Composed of earth and fire (primary earth), this slow-moving elemental resembles a smaller, CR6 version of the more-powerful Magma Elemental that’s already been previewed. When The Elements & Beyond releases, you’ll also have access to the rest of the hybrid elementals, including the other nine dual-element elementals at CR 6 (and its all for free, of course):Īsh Elemental: Composed of earth and fire (primary fire), an ash elemental acts like a stronger, weightier fire elemental that doesn’t light things on fire when it burns them.įog Elemental: Composed of air and water (primary air), fog elementals roll across cold, wet, or icy landscapes. The challenge rating, 6, was chosen specifically to be only slightly stronger than the basic elementals for the same reasons. Not every hybrid elemental has a recharge ability, but some do, just like the basic elementals (water and air elementals have a recharge, but earth and fire do not), and those recharge abilities focus on close-ranged effects, in the elemental’s space if possible. In some cases, like for this ice elemental, the characteristics of the new material were most important - in this case, combining water and the air actually creates a material that is slower and stronger than both. The dual elementals ability scores are largely based on taking the best of both basic elementals’ ability scores, then reducing them slightly where appropriate. The dual-element hybrid elementals were all designed to parallel the design of the basic CR 5 elementals, with the goal of all the collected 14 elementals looking like a coherent set when viewed together. It can also glide through ice and snow, in a similar fashion to the earth elemental’s earth glide trait. Today’s preview is one of those ten elementals - the ice elemental! It’s got a constant effect on it like the frostbite spell that triggers when a creature touches it or hits it too close, which activates under similar circumstances as the fire elemental’s fire form trait. The first element is the elemental’s primary element, which doesn’t affect much, but might matter for some DMs in some circumstances. These subtypes matter for certain spells, abilities, and magic items, such as the spell abi-dalzim’s horrid wilting, which is particularly dangerous for water elementals. They display their elements in the monster block as a subtype in parentheses by their elemental type (where something like “orc” or “elf” or “devil” might go). These new CR 6 elementals are each composed of two combined elements instead of only one. If you could summon a much higher CR then their abilities would get out of hand quick.Among the many new elementals coming in The Elements & Beyond, there is a collection of ten CR 6 elementals meant to supplement the four basic elementals at CR 5 (air, earth, fire, and water elementals). The game is designed to keep the numbers viable. They supplement your damage and abilities. The CR 5-7 creature are still viable even at higher levels. There are the CR 7 elemental myrmidons from Princes of the Apocalypse. What they should do is in the next major expansion have a real Summoner class with some allies (Fey, Elemental, etc) with set stats so that you have your pet's stats right there without having to worry about figuring it out and cross-referencing and doing advanced math.īut yes, right now you have limited options. As you noticed, you have a limited set of options. Honestly, I wish all of the Conjure spells were gone entirely as they weren't implemented well at all.
However, I understand that players like seeing bigger numbers so in that respect if seems like its a failure.ģe was hell with all of the various summon monster spells.
5e has actually done a good job (from a balance/DM perspective) to keep you from summoning a ton of stuff.
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