The Caster of the Four Elements Class for Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) Fifth Edition (5e)

Base Class: Monk

You follow a monastic tradition that teaches you to harness the elements. When you focus your ki, you can align yourself with the forces of creation and bend the four elements to your will, using them as an extension of your body. Some members of this tradition dedicate themselves to a single element, but others weave the elements together.

Many monks of this tradition tattoo their bodies with representations of their ki powers, commonly imagined as coiling dragons, but also as phoenixes, fish, plants, mountains, and cresting waves.

Spellcasting

When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you learn magical disciplines that harness the power of the four elements to cast spells. See Spells Rules for the general rules of spellcasting and the Spells Listing for the Elemental spell list.

Cantrips

You learn two cantrips of your choice from the Elemental spell list. You learn an additional elemental cantrip of your choice at 10th level.

Spell Slots

The Elemental Spellcasting table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your Elemental spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

For example, if you know the 1st-level spell shield and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast shield using either slot.

Spells Known of 1st-Level and Higher

You know three 1st-level Elemental spells of your choice.

The Spells Known column of the Elemental Spellcasting table shows when you learn more Elemental spells of 1st level or higher. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 7th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the Elemental spells you know with another spell of your choice from the elemental spell list. The new spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your Elemental spells, since you learn your spells through study and memorization. You use your Wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a Elemental spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your wisdom modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your wisdom modifier

Way of The 4 Elements Spellcasting

MONK LEVEL	CANTRIPS KNOWN	SPELLS KNOWN	— SPELL SLOTS PER SPELL LEVEL —
MONK LEVEL	CANTRIPS KNOWN	SPELLS KNOWN	1ST	2ND	3RD	4TH
3rd	2	3	2	—	—	—
4th	2	4	3	—	—	—
5th	2	4	3	—	—	—
6th	2	4	3	—	—	—
7th	2	5	4	2	—	—
8th	2	6	4	2	—	—
9th	2	6	4	2	—	—
10th	3	7	4	3	—	—
11th	3	8	4	3	—	—
12th	3	8	4	3	—	—
13th	3	9	4	3	2	—
14th	3	10	4	3	2	—
15th	3	10	4	3	2	—
16th	3	11	4	3	3	—
17th	3	11	4	3	3	—
18th	3	11	4	3	3	—
19th	3	12	4	3	3	1
20th	3	13	4	3	3	1

Elemental Spell list

ELEMENTAL SPELLS TABLE
SHARED SPELLS	FIRE SPELLS	WATER SPELLS	EARTH SPELLS	AIR SPELLS
Cantrips
	Control Flames	Shape Water	Mold Earth	Gust
	Produce flame	Frostbite	Magic stone	Thunderclap
Level 1
Absorb Elements	Burning hands	Create or destroy water/shape of the flowing water	Earth tremor	Thunder wave
Zephyr Strike	Searing Smite	Ice Knife	Magnify Gravity	Fog cloud
	Fangs of the Fire Snake	Water Whip	Strike of Unyielding stone	Fist of Unbroken Air
Level 2
Blindness/Deafness	Aganazzar’s scorcher	Acid Arrow	Earthbind	Dust devil
Misty Step	Scorching Ray	Rime’s Binding Ice	Shatter	Gust of wind
Pass without Trace	Pyrotechnics	Snilloc’s Snowball Swarm	Spike Growth	Warding Wind
Level 3
Elemental Weapon	Ashardalon’s stride	Tidal Wave	Erupting Earth	Call lightning
Protection From Energy	Fireball	Freedom of the waves	Melf’s Minute Meteors	Thunder Step
Level 4
Elemental Bane	Fire Shield	Control water	Stone Shape	Storm Sphere

Elemental Attunement

Starting at 3rd level, You can use your ki points to gain additional spell slots, or sacrifice spell slots to gain additional ki points.

Creating Spell Slots. You can transform unexpended ki points into one spell slot as a bonus action on your turn. The Creating Spell Slots table shows the cost of creating a spell slot of a given level.

Any spell slot you create with this feature vanishes when you finish a long rest

SPELL SLOT LEVEL	KI POINT COST
1st	2
2nd	3
3rd	5
4th	6

Converting a Spell Slot to Ki Points. As a bonus action on your turn, you can expend one spell slot and gain a number of Ki points equal to the slot’s level.

Elemental Control

Starting at 3rd level, You can use your action to briefly control elemental forces within 30 feet of you, causing one of the following effects of your choice:

Create a harmless, instantaneous sensory effect related to air, earth, fire, or water, such as a shower of sparks, a puff of wind, a spray of light mist, or a gentle rumbling of stone.
Instantaneously light or snuff out a candle, a torch, or a small campfire.
Chill or warm up to 1 pound of nonliving material for up to 1 hour.
Cause earth, fire, water, or mist that can fit within a 1-foot cube to shape itself into a crude form you designate for 1 minute.

Channeling of the 4 elements.

Starting at 6th level, You learn channel your Ki to cast more powerful spells use granting access to the following abilities: Flames of the Phoenix, Mist Stance, Ride The Wind & One With the Earth.

Flames of the Phoenix

You can spend 4 ki points to cast fireball. You can spend additional Ki points to increase the spell level by 1 per additional Ki point Spent.

Mist Stance

You can spend 4 ki points to cast gaseous form, targeting yourself. You can spend additional Ki points to increase the spell level by 1 per additional Ki point Spent.

Ride The Wind

You can spend 4 ki points to cast fly, targeting yourself. You can spend additional Ki points to increase the spell level by 1 per additional Ki point Spent.

One With the Earth

You can spend 4 ki points to cast Meld into Stone, targeting yourself. You can spend additional Ki points to increase the spell level by 1 per additional Ki point Spent.

Shaping of the 4 elements

Starting at 11th level, You master the ability to direct and control the elements with your Ki, You gain access to the following abilities: River of Hungry Flame, Wave of Rolling Earth, Breath of Winter, Path of the falling Leaf.

River of Hungry Flame

You can spend 5 ki points to cast wall of fire. You can spend additional Ki points to increase the spell level by 1 per additional Ki point Spent.

Wave of Rolling Earth

You can spend 6 ki points to cast wall of stone. You can spend additional Ki points to increase the spell level by 1 per additional Ki point Spent.

Breath of Winter

You can spend 6 ki points to cast cone of cold. You can spend additional Ki points to increase the spell level by 1 per additional Ki point Spent.

Path of the falling Leaf

You can spend 6 ki points to cast Control Winds. You can spend additional Ki points to increase the spell level by 1 per additional Ki point Spent.

One with the 4 elements

Upon reaching 17th level, You learn how to invest the power of the 4 elements within your form.

As an action for an empowered state, for a duration of 10 minutes you can choose to be under the effect of one of following elements resulting in the effects described below:

Fire

Flames race across your body, shedding bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet for the spell’s duration. The flames don’t harm you. Until the ability ends, you gain the following benefits:

You are immune to fire damage and have resistance to cold damage.
Any creature that moves within 5 feet of you for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there takes 1d10 fire damage.
You can use your action to create a line of fire 15 feet long and 5 feet wide extending from you in a direction you choose. Each creature in the line must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 4d8 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Water

Until the effect ends, ice rimes your body, and you gain the following benefits:

You are immune to cold damage and have resistance to fire damage.
You can move across difficult terrain created by ice or snow without spending extra movement.
The ground in a 10-foot radius around you is icy and is difficult terrain for creatures other than you. The radius moves with you.
You can use your action to create a 15-foot cone of freezing wind extending from your outstretched hand in a direction you choose. Each creature in the cone must make a Constitution saving throw. A creature takes 4d6 cold damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A creature that fails its save against this effect has its speed halved until the start of your next turn.

Earth

Until the effect ends, bits of rock spread across your body, and you gain the following benefits:

You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks.
You can use your action to create a small earthquake on the ground in a 15-foot radius centered on you. Other creatures on that ground must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be knocked prone.
You can move across difficult terrain made of earth or stone without spending extra movement. You can move through solid earth or stone as if it was air and without destabilizing it, but you can’t end your movement there. If you do so, you are ejected to the nearest unoccupied space, this spell ends, and you are stunned until the end of your next turn.

Air

Until the Effect ends, wind whirls around you, and you gain the following benefits:

Ranged weapon attacks made against you have disadvantage on the attack roll.
You gain a flying speed of 60 feet. If you are still flying when the spell ends, you fall, unless you can somehow prevent it.
You can use your action to create a 15-foot cube of swirling wind centered on a point you can see within 60 feet of you. Each creature in that area must make a Constitution saving throw. A creature takes 2d10 bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If a Large or smaller creature fails the save, that creature is also pushed up to 10 feet away from the center of the cube.