Robinloft > Monsters > Water Elemental

Water Elemental

System Reference Document 5.1

Challenge 5

(1,800 XP)

Robinloft Estimated CR 6

Large elemental, neutral

Armor Class 14 (natural armor)

Hit Points 114 (12d10+48)

Speed 30 ft., swim 90 ft.

STR

18 (+4)

DEX

14 (+2)

CON

18 (+4)

INT

5 (-3)

WIS

10 (+0)

CHA

8 (-1)

Saving Throws —

Skills —

Damage Resistances acid; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks

Damage Immunities poison

Condition Immunities exhaustion, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained, unconscious

Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10

Languages Primordial (Aquan)

Environments coastal, swamp, underwater

Freeze.

If the elemental takes cold damage, it partially freezes; its speed is reduced by 20 ft. until the end of its next turn.

Water Form.

The elemental can enter a hostile creature’s space and stop there. It can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.

Multiattack. The elemental makes two slam attacks.

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage.

Whelm (Recharge 4–6).

Each creature in the elemental’s space must make a DC 15 Strength saving throw. On a failure, a target takes 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage. If it is Large or smaller, it is also grappled (escape DC 14). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained and unable to breathe unless it can breathe water. If the saving throw is successful, the target is pushed out of the elemental’s space.
The elemental can grapple one Large creature or up to two Medium or smaller creatures at one time. At the start of each of the elemental’s turns, each target grappled by it takes 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage. A creature within 5 feet of the elemental can pull a creature or object out of it by taking an action to make a DC 14 Strength and succeeding.

Appropriately named, the term elementals generally refers to any creature hailing from the elemental planes. When creatures are simply named after an element, these are the more basic life forms that exist on the elemental planes. These creatures are little more than an animate mass of water, earth, fire, or air. They do not coexist save for when on the material plane, as they all thrive in the plane named for their respective element.

But the elemental planes aren’t lacking a more sophisticated civilization or people. Among the animate masses of elements lie different groups of genies. These genies have their own biological forms, and different genies come from each of the planes, infused with their unique elemental energies.

Other elemental creatures include azers, invisible stalkers, and water weirds.

Not yet described