Combat encounter 11
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WATER ELEMENTAL: Flowing Out of Control
How to Use: Keeping the Overwhelming Elemental in Check The water elemental’s stat block has a problem: its special attack is overwhelmingly strong. When it uses Water-Surge/Whelm and captures a PC, that PC is basically helpless. Then it just dives back into the water. With 90 feet of movement, the other players have no hope… Continue reading
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FIRE ELEMENTAL: As Everything Around Burns Down
How to Use: Basic Fire Elemental Tactics The fire elemental’s behavior is motivated by a liking to setting things on fire. Like the other elementals, it isn’t trying to hurt them; it’s trying to share its flame element with them. This should result in the fire elemental constantly attacking the PCs who aren’t on fire… Continue reading
About Me
I’ve been a DM since I was about 10 years old. (Not of D&D, admittedly, but still.) After growing bored of fights that were all the same, dungeons heavily populated by one monster type, and a general shortage of ideas, I figured I’d embark on my own trip through the Monster Manual, one monster at a time. Feel free to join the quest.