05-06-2019, 04:22 PM | #1 |
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Feeding a Water Elemental
I just noticed Water Elementals are the only type of Elementals that doesn't have the "Doesn't Eat or Drink" trait. It's like this both in Magic and DF9 so I doubt it's an errata, but then why is that? Is there some particular reason to why Water Elementals needs to eat and drink?
Edit: It's not as odd as the above, but I've also felt weird that Water Elementals comes with Chameleon while Air Elementals doesn't, and Slippery feels partially redundant with Diffuse (MA115 says Diffuse makes you immune to grapples). Last edited by Sorenant; 05-06-2019 at 04:26 PM. |
05-06-2019, 04:31 PM | #2 |
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Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: Feeding a Water Elemental
Despite being copied, it's likely still an errata, though the incorrect ones are arguably the other elementals; I would argue that:
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05-06-2019, 07:00 PM | #3 | |
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Earth elementals get away a bit easy here. I agree with no eat/drink/breathe, but I could see them having a contact with the earth as a "sustenance" need (such that an elemental caged, or floating in space, etc. for a long period would "starve" from lack of that contact). Just a passing thought.
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05-06-2019, 07:33 PM | #4 |
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Re: Feeding a Water Elemental
That sounds more like a minor Dependency, probably quirk-level due to the constant availability of ground anyplace you find an Earth Elemental and the considerable difficulty involved in getting one loose from the ground to start with.
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05-06-2019, 07:45 PM | #5 |
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Re: Feeding a Water Elemental
Yeah, a minor or trivial Dependency may be the right way to do it. (Alternately, a GM could rule that earth elementals do require food – the food just happens to be rocks and minerals.)
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05-07-2019, 02:09 AM | #6 |
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Re: Feeding a Water Elemental
I'd defiantly say this errata stuff, as otherwise Fire Elementals wouldn't be able to move away from their fuel sources, and what would a Water Elemental eat anyway?
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05-07-2019, 02:22 AM | #7 |
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Re: Feeding a Water Elemental
It implies fire elementals need fuel as often as humans need food, which hardly prevents them from moving quite a substantial distance from their fuel sources.
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05-07-2019, 04:55 AM | #8 | |
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05-07-2019, 07:54 AM | #9 | |
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I've got a mostly-complete "Concerning Consumption" Overhaul, I may clean that up and post it (main thing it's lacking are foraging rules). Under that, earth elementals would probably have really low-cost food requirements. Water elementals might have fairly high-cost water requirements, if the water they consume needs to be particularly pure. You could increase the cost of foodstuffs by requiring elementals to consume Essential materials (Essential Fuel for fire elementals).
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05-07-2019, 11:21 AM | #10 |
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Re: Feeding a Water Elemental
If it is natural stone or bare earth, staying in urban areas means staying aware of where the parks and green spaces are.
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