Continuing
with the favorite monster theme, for this category I'm going to
choose the fire elemental. Yeah, it's simple, and it's not a big bad
villain-type monster this time, but I love the simplicity of the fire
elemental. It burns, and that's it's big attraction. It's an
uncontrolled blaze that managed to get itself summoned to the
material plane (at least that's how it usually works).
It's
possible to use magic to control them, but the interesting part is
what happens when the magic fails. What happens if a wizard loses
control of his fire elemental in the middle of his laboratory? All
the arcane stuff in there is bound to have some sort of effect on the
elemental. Or what happens when a fire elemental gets loose within
city limits? The townsfolk generally can't hope to contain the blaze
– that's where the PCs come in.
It's
a simple monster, but it can lead to bigger situations than just
“okay, there it is, let's kill it now.” That's where the draw of
the fire elemental is for me.
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