Elemental, Steam

Imagine vapour moving and shaping itself as if it had its own will.

Sentient steam. A water elemental.

Steam Elementals are sassy and falsely relaxed. They love when things are easy and hate when things are complicated, and communicates in hisses and temperature changes.


 
HD X Armor: 0
Hit it: normal Dodge it: normal
Movement: normal, Swim & Fly normal  
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This creature is living steam and is thus only affected by things that would affect droplets of water. It can only survive 1 hour in a dry environment. It can shape steam at will.

Attacks (1/round)

Boiling Jet. The elemental makes a short-range attack (XD4 dmg) which ignores armor. A character with a shield, however, can reduce the damage by 1D8.

Temperature control. Each creature enveloped by the elemental or its steam takes 1D6 fire or cold damage, which ignores armor.

Create Steam (X/day). The elemental creates the equivalent of a 20’ cube of steam which lasts X minutes.



Number : 1 Lair : A steam vent Desire : Frolic & Soak things

When you roll this monster on your encounter table. Most of them are hints the monster is nearby.

If the party meets this monster, what is it doing?

So, You Have Captured A Steam Elemental?

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Bind the Elemental Creature

If you have captured this elemental monster, you can spend the equivalent of 3 bags of gold in a magical laboratory between two adventures to bind it to your soul. If you do so, you …

  • You gain X Doom Points (roll for Catastrophe);
  • You gain 1 Spell Die;
  • Roll a D6, you mutate in the following way :
  1. You are always sweaty.
  2. Any fog will try to envelop you.
  3. You need at least two sources of heat to rest.
  4. You leave wet tracks.
  5. Your skin becomes semi-transparent.
  6. You can change one word from a class ability you have or a spell you know to Steam.

If you roll a Catastrophe, the elemental is released and hostile, and you lose the Spell Dice.

Conjure the Elemental Creature

If you have befriended or bound this monster, you can spend the equivalent of 2 bags of gold in a wizard library between two adventures to learn the following spell:

Conjure Steam Elemental
R: 30’   D: [dice] x 10 minutes

You summon a 1D4 HD steam elemental. You may control it if it has [dice] HD or less with concentration, but otherwise the standard reaction roll and negotiating procedures apply. If a particular true name is known, it may be intoned during the casting of this spell and the named elemental will come instead.

Written on November 14, 2020