  

 
  
     

Pages Table of Contents

2 Description, Building a Elementalist, Quick Build
3-5 Elementalist Table, Class Features
6-7 Elemental Traits
7-8 Spell List
8-10 Spell Descriptions
11 Optional Rules, Dedications and Thanks

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 
A crackling white bolt of lightning sears into the ground and
a thundering blast of superheated air tosses a gang of
goblins to the ground. Flashing out of the space between
sparks, a single ancient elf strides forth with ozone boiling
out of his eyes.
Flowing and weaving through the waves, a goliath scoops
downwards through the water with powerful strokes. Fish
of a dozen colors and ancient blooming strands of sea kelp
dance all around her.
Flickering flames leap and dance from a tabaxi trader’s
golden claws, casting glimmering reflections on the eyes of
a dozen fascinated strangers as he regales them with tales
of his wares, hard won from the Elemental Plane of Fire.
The world is composed of four elements. Earth, Air, Fire,
and Water. Their constant intermingling, coexistence, and
conflict generates the fundamental energy of existence and
life. An Elementalist embraces this energy, bonding
intimately with the very fabric of the world, twisting and
shaping earth, sea, sun and sky to their will.
  
Elementalists spend their time in constant meditation and
learning, but not from scrolls or dusty tomes. The elements
are best understood in their rawest form, as they appear in
nature. An Elementalist might spend a lifetime absorbed in
the way water tumbles over a great fall, or travel to a far-off
volcano in search of its fiery secrets. These pursuits often
bring them to wild frontiers, where the elements are still
untamed by civilization. Many become wanderers and
hermits, endlessly seeking new manifestations of elemental
energy in ever more remote bastions of wilderness.
   
No element can stand alone without the others. The world
is defined by the balance of all four elements, and no-one
knows the importance of their interplay better than an
Elementalist. When one element predominates over the
other, the wielder of that element can become dangerously
skewed. An inexperienced fire mage may find themselves
developing an awful temper, while one that wields the
power of freezing ice too readily may lose joy and vigor,
sinking into a cold depression.
Some masters choose to embrace this imbalance, taking
advantage of a certain element’s most powerful aspects and
checking the downsides with rigorous discipline. Others
cultivate an equal dominion over all the elements, dancing
from one to the next with perfect grace.
  
Elementalists are defined by their experience of the world
around them. Looking upon a grazing horse, one might feel
the presence of the earth in its hard hooves and the grass it
plucks from the ground to sustain itself. Another might see
its steaming breath, and the flash of flaming pride in its
eyes. The breeze through its mane might conjure the
memory of freedom as it gallops across rolling hills chasing
the wind, or the flowing ripples of its limbs might recall the
beating tide of life that sustains all creatures. How does
your character experience the elements?
 
You can make an Elementalist quickly by following these
suggestions. First, Wisdom should be your highest ability
score, followed by Constitution or Dexterity. Second,
choose the hermit background.

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 • a dagger
The Elementalist ---Spell Slots Per Spell Level---
Proficiency
Level Bonus Features 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
1st +2 Elemental Entwinement, Elemental Magic 2 -- -- -- -- --
2nd +2 Elemental Traits (Initiate), Swirling Elements 3 -- -- -- -- --
3rd +2 Embrace the Elements 4 -- -- -- -- --
4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 4 2 -- -- -- --
5th +3 Elemental Entwinement Improvement, Elemental Traits (Adept) 4 3 -- -- -- --
6th +3 Chaotic Entwinement 4 4 -- -- -- --
7th +3 ----- 6 4 2 -- -- --
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement 6 4 3 -- -- --
9th +4 Elemental Traits (Master) 6 4 4 -- -- --
10th +4 ----- 6 4 4 2 -- --
11th +4 Elemental Entwinement Improvement (and Range Improvement) 6 4 4 3 -- --
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 6 4 4 4 -- --
13th +5 ----- 6 4 4 4 2 --
14th +5 Elemental Traits (Grandmaster) 6 4 4 4 2 --
15th +5 Ability Score Improvement 6 4 4 4 3 --
16th +5 ----- 6 4 4 4 4 1
17th +6 Elemental Entwinement Improvement (and Range Improvement) 6 4 4 4 4 2
18th +6 Elemental Overload 6 4 4 4 4 2
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 6 4 4 4 4 3
20th +6 Singularity 6 4 4 4 4 4

   

As an Elementalist, you gain the following class features.
 
Hit Dice: 1d6 per Elementalist level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 6 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution
modifier per Elementalist level after 1st

Armor: None
Weapons: Quarterstaffs, Daggers, Maces, Shortswords
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Charisma, Wisdom
Skills: Choose two from Arcana, History, Insight,
Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, and Survival.

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the
equipment granted by your background:
• (a) any simple weapon or (b) a shortsword
• (a) a scholar’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
• a dagger, a quarterstaff, and an elemental focus
At 1st level, you have learned to align your mind and body
with a particular element, bringing that element’s magic to
the forefront of your awareness. You have four separate
entwinement dice which represent the four elements: 1d6
for Fire, 1d8 for Water, 1d10 for Air, and 1d12 for Earth.
As a bonus action, you may spend any one of those dice to
become entwined with the corresponding element.
Being entwined with an element is a lasting condition.
Your entwinement with an element ends when you entwine
with a different element. When you entwine with a new
element, you also regain one expended entwinement die of
your choice. You may not choose to regain the die of either
the element you are leaving or the element you are entering
entwinement with.
Whenever you entwine with a new element, you may
produce an instant magical effect related to that element:
Fire: Searing Nova: Flames surge out from you. Deal (1d6)
fire damage to yourself. Neither resistance nor immunity can
reduce the damage you take. All other creatures within 10
feet of you are dealt the same damage you dealt to yourself.

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 Water: Soothing Mist: A puff of cool, soothing mist bursts
out from you, settling over each creature within 10 feet of
you. When you use a spell to restore hit points to a creature
shrouded by this mist, that creature regains (1d8) bonus hit
points and the mist around it fades away. This mist fades
from all affected creatures at the end of your next turn.
Air: Electric Discharge: A lightning bolt flashes down,
striking at a single creature you can see within 60 feet of
you. That creature must make a Dexterity saving throw
against your spell save DC, taking (1d10) lightning damage
on a failure or avoiding the damage entirely on a success.
Earth: Armor of Earth: Pebbles and stones rise around
you, granting you a protective barrier. When you are hit by
an attack while entwined with Earth you may reduce the
damage you take by (1d12). You have one use of this
feature and regain all uses when you entwine with Earth.
The magnitude ( ) of each effect is increased by an additional
corresponding entwinement die when you achieve your 5th,
11th, and 17th levels in this class. The radii of Searing Nova
and Soothing Mist are increased by 5 feet and the range of
Electric Discharge is increased by 30 feet when you achieve
your 11th Elementalist level, and again at 17th level.
 
An Elementalist is capable of wielding magic at 1st level to
exert their mastery over the base components of the world.
Elemental magic is volatile and unique, governed by
special rules described in this section. See chapter 10 in
the PHB for the general rules of spellcasting and page 7 of
this resource for the Elementalist spell list.
   
At 1st level, you know all the cantrips and 1st level spells
on the Elementalist spell list. When you first gain a spell
slot of a certain spell level, you also learn all the
Elementalist spells of that spell level.
You must have a spell prepared to cast it, and you prepare
spells by entwining with elements using the Elemental
Entwinement feature as follows:
While you are entwined with an element, you have all
of the spells you know from that element’s section of the
Elementalist spell list prepared to cast, and you lose
access to any others. While you are not entwined with an
element, you do not have any spells of that element
prepared.
You may maintain your concentration on a spell even if
you lose access to it by entwining with a different element.
 
Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your Elementalist
spells, as their power derives from your awareness of and
connection with the elements and their properties. 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 an Elementalist spell you
cast and when making an attack roll with one.
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Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +
your Wisdom modifier
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +
your Wisdom modifier
 
You can use an elemental focus as your spellcasting focus
for your Elementalist spells. An elemental focus is a small
token or artifact which helps an Elementalist deepen their
bond with elements and the physical world. A glowing coal
held at the end of a staff, a pendent vial filled with ever-
frozen ice, or a dark gem hewn from the heart of a forgotten
cave may all serve as elemental foci.
 
You can cast an Elementalist spell as a ritual if that spell
has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.
 
As an Elementalist deepens their connection with the bare
aspects of the natural world, they may take on some of the
signature characteristics of the four elements. These traits
are reflected in an Elementalist’s personality, thoughts,
demeanor, and the magic they wield. At 2nd level, you are
an Initiate in the ways of elemental magic. You may choose
any Initiate tier trait. At 5th level you will become an Adept,
at 9th level you will become a Master, and at 14th level you
will become a Grandmaster. You can choose any trait at
each tier, whether of a consistent theme with or differing
completely from the traits you selected previously.
 
Also at 2nd level, your bond to the elements manifests
visibly. When you are entwined with an element, a minor
manifestation of that element springs up around your body
and follows you. For example, flames might flicker out of
your eyes, or small crystals may wrap around your wrists
like bracelets. Icy mist could swirl in your path, or a gentle
breeze loft through your hair. The precise nature of this
effect is up to your conscious choice and you can suppress
this occurrence at your will.
  
At 3rd level, when you entwine with an element your bond
with it bolsters your physical form. You gain certain
resistances when entwined:
Fire: Resistance to Fire damage.
Water: Resistance to Cold damage.
Air: Resistance to Lightning damage.
Earth: Resistance to Bludgeoning damage.

  

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 15th, and
19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice
by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice
by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above
20 using this feature.

 
The moment of entwinement is an instant of shifting,
unformed potential. By 6th level you have learned to take
advantage of this moment to reshape the elements as you
desire. If you cast a spell immediately after entwining with a
new element, then you may replace the damage type of that
cast with the damage type of another spell you know, from
either the previous element or the new one.

 
Upon reaching 18th level, you have strengthened your bond
with the elements to the point that you can channel
catastrophic power. When you entwine with an element,
you may choose to overload yourself instead of losing your
previous entwinement. For the next hour your existing
entwinements are not ended by entwining with a new
element, you may activate any of Elemental Entwinement’s
magical effects as a bonus action without entwining, and
you may use Chaotic Entwinement at any time, selecting
from the damage types of any spell you have prepared.
Channeling the elements this way takes a terrible toll, and
you cannot easily close yourself to this power. You cannot
leave this state until it ends. At the end of the hour you gain
one level of exhaustion and end all your entwinements,
regaining all spent entwinement dice.


At 20th level, you are an unsurpassed grandmaster of the
elements. Channeling the four elements comes as easily to
you as breathing, and the scale of your powers can only be
described as cataclysmic. Elemental Overload no longer
exhausts you. When you are entwined with all four
elements, you may expend any number of spell slots to
trigger some monumental elemental event. Work with your
DM to determine an appropriate contextual occurrence.
The scale of this event should depend on the number of
slots expended. An Elementalist unleashing all their power
can accomplish feats like raising a river to flood, triggering
a volcanic eruption, or turning a mountain into a valley.

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  
When you reach 2nd level you may select one Initiate tier
trait to learn. At 5th level you may select one trait of Adept
tier or lower learn. At 9th level you may select on trait of
Master tier or lower to learn. At 14th level you may select
one trait of Grandmaster tier or lower to learn.
At the end of a long rest, you can replace any one trait you
have with a different one that is available to you. You
cannot have traits from a certain tier unless you have at
least 1 trait from each lower tier. For example, at level 5
you can have 1 Initiate trait and 1 Adept trait or 2 Initiate
traits and no Adept traits, but you may not have 2 Adept
traits with no Initiate traits.
 
 
At the start of your turn, you may choose to end all your
entwinements and regain all expended entwinement dice.
After you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you
finish a short or long rest.
 
Whenever one of your spells deals fire damage to two or
more creatures at the same time you may take a reaction to
activate your Searing Nova effect, as if you had entwined
with Fire (see the Elemental Entwinement feature).
 
The maximum duration of your Soothing Mist is increased
by one round. When a creature you can see would fail a
saving throw or ability check while your Soothing Mist is
clinging to them, you may take a reaction and expend a
spell slot of any level to renew their vigor. The target
creature may reroll the failed roll and you may grant them a
1d8 bonus to the new attempt. If the target creature makes
use of this effect, it must use the result of the new roll and
your Soothing Mist fades from it whether it passes or fails.
 
Your speed increases by 10 feet. When you have a flying
speed, that flying speed is increased by a further 10 feet.
When you damage a creature with a spell or magical effect,
you don’t provoke opportunity attacks from that creature for
the rest of the turn.
 
You gain an additional use of Armor of Earth. Whenever you
entwine with Earth, you may touch one other willing creature
to grant one further use of Armor of Earth to that creature.
Other creatures granted uses of the Armor of Earth feature
by this trait do not need to be entwined with Earth to benefit
from them and lose those uses at the end of your next turn.
You cannot grant a creature uses of Armor of Earth with this
trait if it already has uses of Armor of Earth, or if it has the
ability to grant itself uses of Armor of Earth.
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 
 
Your Swirling Elements feature grows more grandiose and
impressive. You learn the Mage Hand cantrip and always
have it prepared (regardless of entwinement). When you cast
it, instead of creating a spectral hand you reach out with a
minor, delicate component of your Swirling Elements, such
as a tendril of water or a floating clump of pebbles.
   
Whenever you take fire damage your blood is ignited until
the end of your next turn. While the effect of this trait is
active, whenever you are hit by a melee attack the attacker
takes fire damage equal to your Elementalist level.
  
When you restore hit points to one or more creatures using
a spell, if any of those targets are charmed, frightened,
blinded, deafened, petrified, paralyzed, or stunned, you may
choose of those creatures and end one of those effects on it.
You may activate this trait when attempting to heal a
creature even if that creature already has their maximum
number of hit points.
 
When a target fails the saving throw against your Electric
Discharge, if that target is stunned, restrained, paralyzed, or
petrified, they take an additional 1d10 lightning damage.
At any time on your turn, if you are entwined with Air, you
may take an action to produce an Electric Discharge.
 
Whenever one of your spells or magical effects causes a
creature to become restrained, paralyzed, stunned, pushed,
pulled, prone, or petrified, you also blind that creature until
the end of its next turn.
 
 
Immediately after using a bonus action to entwine with a
new element, you may instantly cast a cantrip within the
same bonus action, ignoring its normal casting time. Any
damage dealt this way is halved. Casting a cantrip this way
is considered casting a bonus action spell for the purpose of
restrictions regarding bonus action spells (PHB pg.202).
 
If you are reduced to 0 hit points by fire damage or take fire
damage while at 0 hit points, you become immune to death
and healing until the start of your next turn, at which time
you immediately regain 8d6 hit points and become immune
to fire damage until the end of the turn. After this trait
activates, it can’t activate again until you finish a long rest.
 
When you restore hit points to one or more creatures using a
spell, you may take a reaction to choose one of those targets
and have your water magic explode out from their body. The
target loses hit points equal to the number of hit points they
regained. All other creatures within 10 feet of the target must
pass a Dexterity saving throw against your spell-save DC or
take cold damage equal to the number of hit points that the
target lost, be pushed 10 feet directly away from the target,
and have their speed set to 0 until the start of your next turn.
 
If you cast Gaseous Form targeting only yourself, you may
cast it without any components. While you are under the
effects of the Gaseous Form or Wind Walk spells, you gain
50 feet of bonus flying speed, you are invisible, and you
become immune to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing
damage, and the restrained and grappled conditions.
  
You gain an additional use of Armor of Earth. Uses of
Armor of Earth that you grant to yourself or other creatures
become reactive to assault. When one such use successfully
reduces the damage of a melee attack to 0, the attacker is
knocked prone.
 
  
The Elementalist spell list is divided into four sections,
representing the four elements. If a spell is listed under one
element’s section, it is considered a spell of that element for
the purpose of Elementalist class features and traits.
Spells marked with an asterisk * are new, Elementalist-
exclusive spells, described in the “Spell Descriptions”
section on pages 8-10. This spell list also includes spells
from the Xanathar’s Guide to Everything (xge) and Tasha’s
Cauldron of Everything (tce). These new and supplemental
spells should be considered essential inclusions.
 

Control Flames (xge 152)
Create Bonfire (xge 152)
Fire Bolt
 
Burning Hands
Hellish Rebuke

    

You learn the Conjure Elemental spell, always have it Burning Speed *
prepared, and maintain control of it without concentrating, Flaming Sphere
but for you its casting time is 1 hour, its duration is 24 hours, Pyrotechnics (xge 163)
and to successfully cast it at any spell level you must expend
two spell slots of that level or higher. If you conjure a new
 
Fireball
elemental while you control another, the previous one
Lava Font *
disappears instantly.

   

Fire Shield
When a spell you cast ends, if it had a duration longer than
Wall of Fire
instantaneous and dealt fire damage to a creature or object,
it leaves behind a 3rd level Lava Font. The lava condenses  
from the flames of the dying spell, at a target location you Immolation (xge 158)
choose on the ground within the previous spell’s area. Dawn (xge 153)
   
Creatures shrouded by your Soothing Mist gain a 1d8 bonus Investiture of Flame (xge 159)
to attack rolls and receive the benefit of any resistances you Phoenix Fire *
have due to your Embrace the Elements feature. At any time
on your turn, no matter your current entwinement, you may
expend a spell slot of any level as a bonus action to produce  
your Soothing Mist effect, as if you had entwined with Water.

   Ray of Frost
You gain a flying speed of 60 feet and the Hover property. Shape Water (xge 164)
While flying, you have advantage on Dexterity saving
throws and your movement is silent.  
Create or Destroy Water
  Cure Wounds
When you would fail a saving throw while entwined with
Earth you may take a reaction to ignore that failure and  
pass instead. You can use this feature once, and you regain Aid
the ability to do so when you entwine with Earth again. Cleansing Wave *

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    
Water Breathing Earth Tremor (xge 155)
Water Walk Mage Armor
Upswell * Shield

   

Control Water Crater *
Watery Sphere (xge 170) Maximillian’s Earthen Grasp (xge 161)
Ice Storm
 
  Erupting Earth (xge 155)
Maelstrom (xge 160) Meld into Stone
Mass Cure Wounds
 
  Stoneskin
Otiluke’s Freezing Sphere Stone Shape
Heal Shock Wave *

 
  Wall of Stone
Sandstorm *

Gust (xge 157)  
Lightning Lure (tce 107) Bones of the Earth (xge 150)
Move Earth
 
Arc Trap *
Feather Fall

 
Gust of Wind
Ride the Lightning *  
 
Fly  
Gaseous Form 1st level Evocation (Ritual)
Wind Wall Casting Time: 1 action
Lightning Bolt Range: 5 feet
Components: V S M (two small copper tacks)
  Duration: Up to 8 hours
Freedom of Movement
Choose two points you can see within range that have only
Storm Sphere (xge 166)
unoccupied space between them. A thin electric arc leaps
  through the air, suspending itself between the two target
Far Step (xge 155) points. While it persists, it gives off a subtly audible crackle
Control Winds (xge 152) and sheds dim light across a 5-foot radius around itself. If
an object or creature contacts the arc, they must make a
  Constitution saving throw. They suffer 2d10 lightning
Wind Walk damage and become stunned until the end of their next
Chain Lightning turn if they fail or take half the damage and are not stunned
if they pass. Pass or fail, the arc then snaps out of existence
with a loud thunderclap audible from as far away as 300
  feet. If the duration expires before the trap is triggered, it
fizzles away silently, leaving no trace. If you cast this spell

again while an arc trap you cast previously persists, the
Magic Stone (xge 160)
previous trap fizzles away instantly.
Mold Earth (xge 162)
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage is increased by 1d10
for each slot level above 1st.

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 
2nd level Evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (30-foot range, 10-foot radius sphere)
Components: V S M (a charred boot sole)
Duration: Instantaneous
Manifest searing jets of flame which push you up to 30 feet
in any direction you choose, even vertically. This movement
doesn’t trigger opportunity attacks. If this movement pushes
you through space occupied by another creature, they must
make a Dexterity saving throw or suffer 2d6 fire damage. If
there is insufficient unoccupied space for you at the end of
the movement, you stop early in the furthest unoccupied
space along the line. At the end of your movement the
propelling flames flare out and explode. All creatures in a
10-foot radius spherical area around you besides yourself
must make a Dexterity saving throw, suffering 2d6 fire
damage on a failure or half as much if they pass.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 3rd level or higher, for each slot level above 2nd, the
damage of the movement and the final explosion are both
increased by 1d6 and the movement range is increased by
10 feet.
 
2nd level Conjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (10-foot radius sphere)
Components: V S M (a drop of water)
Duration: Instantaneous
A wave of refreshing water splashes out from you, healing
wounds and washing away filth. All creatures in a 10-foot
radius sphere centered on yourself regain hit points equal
to 1d8 + your spellcasting modifier. If any creatures in the
area are poisoned or diseased, this spell cures one of those
ailments on each of those creatures (their choice). This
spell does not restore hit points to undead or constructs.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot
of 3rd level or higher, for each slot level above 2nd, the radius
is increased by 5 feet and it cures an additional ailment on
each affected creature.

2nd level Transmutation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (5-foot radius)
Components: V S M (an iron ball)
Duration: Instantaneous
An earthen blast launches you into the air along an arcing
trajectory, which you may make up to 30 feet high and 15
feet long horizontally. This movement doesn’t trigger
opportunity attacks. If you are not standing on a solid
surface when you cast this spell, you forgo the movement
portion of this spell. The next time you touch the ground
this turn, if you fell at least 10 feet immediately prior, you
land with cratering force. You don’t take fall damage from
this impact, and all other creatures on the ground within 5
feet of you must then make a Strength saving throw.
Creatures that fail the saving throw take 2d12 bludgeoning
damage and are pushed 10 feet directly away from you.
Creatures that pass take only half the damage and are not
pushed. The ground within 5 feet of you becomes difficult
terrain which lasts until cleared. Each 5-foot-square portion
of the area requires at least 1 minute to clear by hand.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 3rd level or higher, for each slot level above 2nd, the
damage is increased by 1d12 and the maximum height of
the arc is increased by 30 feet.
  
2nd level Conjuration
Casting Time: 1 reaction
Range: Self
Components: None
Duration: Instantaneous
When you deal lightning damage to one or more creatures
or objects using a spell or magical effect, you may take a
reaction to cast this spell. Teleport to an unoccupied
location within 5 feet of one of those creatures or objects,
and this spell deals 2d10 lightning damage to that target. If
you can see any of the area around your target you may
choose a destination inside that area, but if you cannot then
the destination is determined randomly from the available
area. If no such location is available, then you fail to teleport
and you take this spell’s lightning damage.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage is increased by 1d10
for each slot level above 2nd.
 
3rd level Conjuration (Ritual)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V S M (a round piece of obsidian)
Duration: 1 minute
Call forth the roiling heat of the earth to create a magical
gout of lava. Choose a point on the ground within range,
and lava surges up to the surface. A volume of lava
sufficient to occupy the base of a five-foot cube to one-foot
depth flows out as a thick liquid, remaining in a single
location if the ground is flat or flowing in a cohesive globule
at a rate of up to 5 feet per round on a slope. A creature that
walks across the lava takes 6d6 fire damage for every five
feet of lava it crosses, and if a creature ends its turn on the
lava it takes 12d6 fire damage. Lava is unimaginably hot
and heavy. This volume of molten rock weighs 5000
pounds. It ignites flammable objects and structures near it
and will slowly melt stone and metal it remains in contact
with. This lava magically cools into a smooth, glassy black
stone when this spell ends.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 4th level or higher, for each slot level above 3rd,
another identical volume of lava is created in an adjacent
location you choose.
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3rd level Conjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet (15-foot radius hemisphere)
Components: V S M (a bucket of water drawn from a well)
Duration: Instantaneous
Call on a massive upswelling of enchanted water to surge
up from a point you choose on the ground within range.
The water mounds up into a 15-foot high, 15-foot radius
hemi-spherical dome. Creatures in the area are rejuvenated
by the rising water, regaining hit points equal to 2d8 + your
spellcasting modifier. The mass of water then collapses
downwards, washing outwards along the ground to
extinguish unprotected flames and carry away loose
objects. Creatures in the area must pass a Strength saving
throw or be knocked prone and pushed 15 feet directly
away from the origin. A creature may freely choose to fail
this saving throw, opting to let themselves be carried by the
water and pushed twice as far. If the movement of a
creature pushed by this spell is interrupted by a hard
surface or obstacle, that creature takes 2d8 bludgeoning
damage from the collision. This spell does not restore hit
points to undead or constructs.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 4th level or higher, the healing is increased by 1d8 for
each slot level above 3rd.
 
4th level Transmutation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (10-foot width, 120-foot line)
Components: V S M (three sharp and angular stones)
Duration: Instantaneous
Tear the ground in a line in front of yourself into jagged
peaks that clasp at foes. Send a powerful shock wave out
from yourself, which is 10 feet wide and travels rapidly
along the ground for 120 feet. The ground traversed by the
wave buckles and tears apart, becoming difficult terrain
which lasts until cleared. Each 5-foot-square portion of the
area requires at least 1 minute to clear by hand. Creatures
in the area when this spell is cast must make a Dexterity
saving throw. Those that fail are struck by the shock wave,
knocked prone, restrained, and take 2d12 bludgeoning
damage. Creatures that pass take half the damage and are
neither knocked prone nor restrained. A restrained target
can use its action to make a Strength check against your
spell save DC. On a success, the target shatters the stones
pinning it down and is no longer restrained.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 5th level or higher, for each slot level above 4th, the
damage increases by 1d12 and the width of the wave
increases by 5 feet.
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
5th level Conjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (30-foot radius, 30-foot height cylinder)
Components: V S M (a fistful of fine sand)
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes.
Fine sand swirls out from you, churning through the air
throughout a cylindrical area of 30-foot radius and 80-foot
height. The origin of the storm is your location, and if you
are elevated in the air for any reason the storm also extends
downwards from you towards the ground, for a distance up
to its maximum height. The storm spreads around corners.
The area is heavily obscured, and creatures within have
disadvantage on perception checks made using hearing or
smell. Unprotected air-breathing creatures within the area
must hold their breath or begin to suffocate. A creature
attempting to fly in the area must spend five feet of
movement for each foot it moves. When a creature ends its
turn in the area it takes 3d4 slashing and 3d4 piercing
damage. The swirling area of the storm does not include a
central eye, which is a 10-foot radius cylinder of the same
height as the storm, also centered on you. The eye of the
storm is perfectly calm, and not subject to any of the effects
of this spell. Both the storm and the eye move with you.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 6th level or higher, the exterior radius and height
increase by 20 feet for each slot level above 5th.
 
6th level Transmutation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (15-foot radius, 600-foot height cylinder)
Components: V S M (a singed piece of down)
Duration: Instantaneous
Ignite yourself, turning your body to flame. Deal 20d6 fire
damage to yourself as you fuel a searing geyser of flame.
Neither resistance nor immunity can reduce the damage
you take. The torrent of flame fills a 15-foot radius, 600-
foot-height cylinder rising from your body, flaring upwards
into the sky. All other creatures in the area must make a
Dexterity saving throw. Creatures that fail take the same
damage you dealt to yourself. Creatures that pass are
pushed 15 feet directly away from you. If they end this
movement outside the area of the flames, they take only
half the damage. If they end this movement within the area
of the flame, they take the full damage. The pillar of flame
ignites objects and burns clean through flammable
obstacles, such as wooden structures or shingle roofs. If the
damage of this spell reduces you to 0 hit points your
unconscious body remains wreathed in fire and you regain
1 hit point at the start of your next turn, unless you die
before that can occur.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 7th level or higher, the damage increases by 2d6 for
each slot level above 6th.
 
These rules are optional additions or tweaks. Choose these
carefully, in consultation with your DM, to best suit the
nature of your table and game.

The Elementalist offers four different trait choices rather
than a single traditional subclass choice. If you prefer a
more rigid structure, organize the traits into subclass lines
by the order in which they appear. For example, if a player
chooses the second Initiate trait Burning Fire at level 2, at
level 5 they would receive the second Adept trait Fire in the
Blood, at level 9 they would receive the second Master trait
Phoenix Renewal, and at level 14 they would receive the
second Grandmaster trait Persisting Flames.
 
The precise composition of the Elementalist spell list is
essential to the proper balance and enjoyability of the class.
If a certain spell is not available for any reason, we suggest
searching for a replacement by seeking to match the cast
time, duration, and damage as closely as possible. Damage,
damage type, and effects or conditions applied can be more
easily altered or re-flavored to suit the desired element and
spell level. For example, if you do not own Tasha’s
Cauldron of Everything or your DM does not permit that
sourcebook to be used at their table, you may replace
Lightning Lure with Shocking Grasp.

It is not recommended to permit multiclassing with the
Elementalist. If you choose to do so, or to play such a
character, these additional rules apply to the Elementalist.
Multiclassing Prerequisites: To qualify for a level in this
class, you must have a Wisdom score of 13 or higher.
Multiclassing Proficiencies: When you gain your first level
in this class, if it wasn’t your initial class, you don’t gain any
of its starting proficiencies.
Spellcasting: Elemental magic is primal and unique.
Elementalist levels are not considered when determining
how many spell slots a character otherwise has. A
character has Elementalist-specific spell slots determined
according to its Elementalist level, and knows and prepares
spells as an Elementalist independently of any other
method by which it could know or prepare spells. If a
character knows or prepares a spell only due to having
Elementalist levels and the Elemental Magic feature, those
spells cannot be considered for any other purpose other
than to be cast using Elementalist spell slots. Elementalist
spell slots and features which refer to spells cannot be used
for any purpose other than as pertains to spells prepared by
the Elemental Magic feature.
 
Demands careful planning and strategy, and heavily
reduces the power level of the Elementalist. You can’t
entwine if you entwined during your last turn.
 
Severely reduces the power level of the Elementalist. Best
suited to very low-power campaigns. When you first gain a
spell slot of a certain spell level, you choose only one spell
of each element at that level from the Elementalist spell list
to learn, instead of learning all available spells at that level.

Offers great potential for flexibility and creativity but may
also enable repetitive use of the same elements. When you
entwine with a new element, you don’t lose entwinement
with the previous element until the end of that turn. This
optional rule is recommended as an alternative to the
Elemental Arcana trait, and the two should be presented as
mutually exclusive character options.

Encourages players to be immersed in and appreciate the
world around them. When you cast a spell from within a
matching natural environment, such as casting an air spell
on a high cliff during a thunderstorm, that spell is cast as if
you had spent a spell slot of one level higher than the level
of the slot you actually expended.
 
Emphasizes the wild and unrestrained nature of the
elements. The range and radii of effects produced by your
Elemental Entwinement feature are doubled, but you
cannot choose not to produce them when you entwine.
Pages Table of Contents
2 Description, Building an Elementalist, Quick Build
3-5 Elementalist Table, Class Features
6-7 Elemental Traits
7-8 Spell List
8-10 Spell Descriptions
11 Optional Rules, Dedications and Thanks
  
Written by dmforeva 3/5/2020. Dedicated to Syliara, the best roaming
duelist of an ele any player could ask to play. Much credit for inspiration to
the Guild Wars 2 Elementalist profession, owned by ArenaNet. Concept art
owned by ArenaNet and NCSoft. Fonts are by /u/Solbera, of which
/u/Barkalot modified Bookinsanity. Great thanks to zeek0 for the formatting
template, heavily modified by him from a document by Akshat Bhatnagar.
Thanks to Wizards of the Coast for their player content policy and for the
DND 5th edition system. (v6.0, 02/19/2021)
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