Homebrew Earth Elemental Species Details
Those who think of other planes at all consider them remote, distant realms, but planar influence can be felt throughout the world. It sometimes manifests in beings who, embody their planes in their entirety, their bodies made of pure elements.
The Elemental Planes are often inhospitable to natives of the Material Plane: crushing earth, searing flames, boundless skies, and endless seas make visiting these places dangerous for even a short time. The powerful elementals, however, don’t face such troubles when venturing into the mortal world. They adapt well to the mingled elements of the Material Plane, and they sometimes visit—whether of their own volition or compelled by magic.
Earth Elemental Traits
Your elemental character has certain characteristics in common with all other elementals.Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and Terran. Terran is a rumbling language with deep tones that reverberate through the listener.
Spell Casting
Their connection to the Elemental Plane of Earth grants earth elementals an innate access to a few earthen spells.
Earthen Form
Your earthen form gives you a few advantages that makes you a prime candidate for adventuring.
- You gain resistance to piercing, slashing, and bludgeoning damage from non-magical sources.
- You gain vulnerability to thunder damage
- Mutable Form: Due to your earthen physiology certain spells can change your form, if targeted by any spells that affect the shape of rocks, stone, dirt. or any other earthen materials, roll a CON saving throw against the opponent's spell save DC or suffer 1d8 force damage for every level of spell you are affected by. (1d8 for cantrips, 2d8 for 1st level, etc.)
- Your unarmed strikes deal 1d6 bludgeoning damage instead of the normal 1d4
- You gain a +2 to your AC
Ability Score Increase
Your Constitution score increases by 2.
Age
Being pure embodiments of the elemental planes, earth elementals do not age the same way mortals do, they simply exist until the planes they call home require them to return to be reused to create new life. This makes earth elementals immune to magic that ages the target.
Alignment
Independent and self-reliant, earth elementals tend toward a neutral alignment.
Size
Being pulled away from their home plane, the earth elementals that find themselves wandering the Material Plane has been condensed and are now Medium creatures.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 20 feet. You are also granted a burrow speed of 30ft. which allows you to burrow through nonmagical, unworked earth and stone.
Senses
Due to being made of pure earth they do not possess a traditional way to view the world around them, they instead possess a tremorsense, which makes them sensitive to vibrations in the ground and can automatically pinpoint the location of anything that is in contact with the ground within 30ft. of them.
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