Aspect Codex

Elemental Transmutation

Elemental Transmutation is an imported aspect from the Jericha Aspect Data sheet. Its full lore and named powers can be expanded here as the canon text is added.

Elemental TransmutationSpellcastingChargesArcana

What This Aspect Does

Elemental Transmutation defines a character's supernatural focus, training profile, resource model, and power family. This page is structured so each separate power can become its own linked entry instead of being buried inside a character sheet.

Power Links

42 separate powersReusable by characters, items, curses, and locations
Tier 0ActionAt-Will

Elementalism

Create a harmless elemental effect within range: stir air, chill or warm an object, ignite or snuff a tiny flame, shape loose earth, move up to 1 gallon of water, or change a small sensory trace of one element into another.

Tier 0ActionAt-Will

Elemental Spark

Make a ranged power attack against one creature. On a hit, the target takes 4 (1d8) acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, chosen when you use this power.

Tier 1ActionAt-Will

Chromatic Orb

Make a ranged power attack against one creature within range. On a hit, the target takes 13 (3d8) acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison, or thunder damage, chosen when you use this power.

Tier 1ReactionAt-Will

Absorb Elements

When you take acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, gain resistance to the triggering damage type until the start of your next turn. The next melee attack you hit with before then deals an extra 1d6 damage of the triggering type.

Tier 1ActionAt-Will

Elemental Touch

Touch one unattended nonmagical object no larger than 5 ft. in any dimension. Change its surface property to hot, cold, damp, dry, brittle, conductive, slick, or rough for the duration.

Tier 1ReactionAt-Will

Elemental Ward

When a creature you can see within range takes acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, reduce the damage by your INT modifier plus your proficiency bonus.

Tier 2ReactionAt-Will

Damage Conversion

When a creature you can see within range deals acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, change that damage to another type from that list before damage is applied.

Tier 2Bonus ActionAt-Will

Dragon Breath

Touch one willing creature and choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison. Until the effect ends, the target can use an action to exhale a 15-ft. cone. Creatures in the cone must make a DEX save, taking 10 (3d6) damage of the chosen type on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

Tier 2Bonus ActionAt-Will

Elemental Shell

Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. Gain temporary hit points equal to 2d8 + your INT modifier. While you have these temporary hit points, you have resistance to the chosen damage type.

Tier 2ActionAt-Will

Shape Element

Shape loose earth, flame, water, smoke, frost, or nonmagical elemental matter in a 10-ft. cube within range. You may move it up to 10 ft., make it difficult terrain, extinguish it, ignite it if flammable, or reshape it into a simple form.

Tier 3ActionAt-Will

Elemental Weapon

Touch one weapon. Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. The weapon becomes magical, gains a +1 bonus to attack rolls, and deals an extra 1d4 damage of the chosen type on a hit.

Tier 3ActionAt-Will

Elemental Burst

Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. Energy erupts in a 15-ft. radius centered on a point within range. Creatures in the area must make a DEX save, taking 23 (5d8) damage of the chosen type on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

Tier 3ReactionAt-Will

Reactive Transmutation

When a creature you can see within range fails a saving throw against acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, change one condition imposed by the effect to prone, pushed 10 ft., unable to take reactions, or speed reduced by 10 ft. until the start of its next turn.

Tier 3Bonus ActionAt-Will

Elemental Step

Teleport to an unoccupied space within range that is adjacent to fire, water, ice, stone, metal, strong wind, smoke, or an active elemental effect. One creature within 5 ft. of your arrival space takes damage equal to your INT modifier; choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder.

Tier 4ActionAt-Will

Elemental Bane

Choose one creature you can see within range and choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. The target must make a CON save or lose resistance to the chosen type and take an extra 2d6 damage of that type the first time each turn it takes that damage.

Tier 4Bonus ActionAt-Will

Suffused Strikes

Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. Once per turn when you hit with an attack or power, deal an extra 2d8 damage of the chosen type.

Tier 4ActionAt-Will

Transmute Hazard

Choose one nonmagical elemental hazard in a 30-ft. cube within range, such as fire, smoke, acid, ice, mud, electrified water, or choking dust. Change it into another hazard of similar size and intensity from that list for the duration.

Tier 4ReactionAt-Will

Elemental Aegis

When a creature you can see within range takes acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, reduce the damage by 4d8 + your INT modifier and change any remaining damage to another type from that list.

Tier 5ActionAt-Will

Conjure Elemental

Create a Large elemental spirit in an unoccupied space within range. Choose air, earth, fire, or water. When a creature enters the spirit’s space for the first time on a turn or starts within 5 ft. of it, it must make a DEX save, taking 36 (8d8) lightning, thunder, fire, or cold damage based on the chosen element on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

Tier 5Bonus ActionAt-Will

Elemental Suffusion

Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. Gain resistance to that damage type and a flying speed of 30 ft. At the start of each of your turns, creatures of your choice within 15 ft. must make a DEX save, taking 7 (2d6) damage of the chosen type on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

Tier 5ActionAt-Will

Conversion Field

Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. Damage of any other type from that list dealt inside the emanation becomes the chosen type. Hostile creatures that start their turn in the emanation take damage of the chosen type equal to your INT modifier.

Tier 5ReactionAt-Will

Elemental Recovery

When you take acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, reduce the damage by 4d8 + your INT modifier. If this reduces the damage to 0, gain temporary hit points equal to the amount reduced.

Tier 6ActionAt-Will

Effulgent Spheres

Six elemental spheres orbit you. As a reaction when you take acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, expend one sphere to gain resistance to that damage until the start of your next turn. As a bonus action, expend one sphere to make a ranged power attack against a target within 120 ft.; on a hit, it takes 10 (3d6) acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage.

Tier 6ActionAt-Will

Greater Elemental Weapon

Touch one weapon. Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. The weapon becomes magical, gains a +2 bonus to attack rolls, and deals an extra 2d4 damage of the chosen type on a hit.

Tier 6ReactionAt-Will

Elemental Rewrite

When a creature you can see within range deals or takes acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, change the damage to another type from that list and double or halve the damage before resistance or vulnerability is applied.

Tier 6ActionAt-Will

Elemental Wall

Create a wall of acid, ice, flame, lightning, or thunderous force within range. The wall is up to ten contiguous 10-ft. panels. A creature that enters the wall for the first time on a turn or starts there must make a DEX save, taking 35 (10d6) damage of the chosen type on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

Tier 7PassiveConstant

Elemental Dominion

Your Elemental Transmutation powers ignore resistance to acid, cold, fire, lightning, and thunder damage. Once per turn when you deal one of those damage types, you may change it to another type from that list.

Tier 7Bonus ActionAt-Will

Elemental Shift

Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. Gain resistance to the chosen type, a movement mode tied to the element, and advantage on saves against effects that deal that type. You may change the chosen type as a bonus action while the effect lasts.

Tier 7ReactionAt-Will

Mass Conversion

When acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage is dealt in a 30-ft. radius centered on a point within range, change all of that damage to another type from that list. Creatures of your choice in the area gain resistance to the new type until the start of your next turn.

Tier 7ActionAt-Will

Cataclysmic Blend

Choose two types from acid, cold, fire, lightning, and thunder. Energy erupts in a 40-ft. radius centered on a point within range. Creatures of your choice in the area must make a DEX save, taking 22 (4d10) damage of each chosen type on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

Tier 8Bonus ActionAt-Will

Elemental Avatar

Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. Gain immunity to the chosen damage type, resistance to two other types from that list, and a flying, swimming, burrowing, or climbing speed of 60 ft. based on the chosen element.

Tier 8ActionAt-Will

Transmute Weakness

Choose one creature you can see within range and choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. The target must make a CON save or gain vulnerability to the chosen damage type for the duration. The target repeats the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.

Tier 8ActionAt-Will

Prismatic Engine

At the start of each of your turns, choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. Hostile creatures in the emanation lose resistance to the chosen type and must make a DEX save, taking 27 (6d8) damage of that type on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

Tier 8ActionAt-Will

Elemental Cataclysm

Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. Energy detonates in a 50-ft. radius centered on a point within range. Creatures of your choice in the area must make a DEX save, taking 55 (10d10) damage of the chosen type on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

Tier 9PassiveConstant

Elemental Sovereignty

You are immune to one damage type of your choice from acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder after each long rest. Your Elemental Transmutation powers ignore resistance to all five types.

Tier 9ActionAt-Will

World Conversion

Choose a 120-ft. radius centered on a point within range and choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. Elemental hazards and damage inside the area become the chosen type. Hostile creatures that start their turn in the area take damage of the chosen type equal to your INT modifier.

Tier 9ReactionAt-Will

Perfect Conversion

When a creature you can see within range takes acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, change the damage to another type from that list, then choose whether the creature has vulnerability, resistance, or immunity to that damage instance.

Tier 9ActionAt-Will

Fivefold Devastation

Choose up to five creatures you can see within range. Assign acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder to each target. Each target must make a DEX save, taking 66 (12d10) damage of its assigned type on a failed save, or half as much on a success.

Tier 10Bonus ActionAt-Will

Elemental Paragon

For the duration, you are immune to acid, cold, fire, lightning, and thunder damage. Once per turn when you deal one of those damage types, you may change it to any other type from that list and ignore immunity to that damage instance.

Tier 10ActionAt-Will

Absolute Transmutation

Choose one creature you can see within range and choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. The target must make a CON save or become vulnerable to the chosen type and lose immunity and resistance to it for the duration. The target repeats the save at the end of each of its turns.

Tier 10ReactionAt-Will

Cataclysmic Reversal

When you or a creature you can see within range would take damage or fail a saving throw from an effect that deals acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, reduce the damage to 0 or turn the failed save into a success. Then choose a creature within 60 ft. of the protected target; it takes 55 (10d10) damage of one type from that list.

Tier 10ActionAt-Will

Worldshaper Convergence

Acid, cold, fire, lightning, and thunder converge in a 60-ft. radius centered on a point within range. Creatures of your choice in the area must make a DEX save, taking 88 (16d10) variable damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. Choose the damage type separately for each affected creature.

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