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Stone of Controlling Earth Elementals

Stone Of Controlling Earth Elementals
  • Category: Wondrous Item
  • Rarity: Rare

While touching this 5-pound stone to the ground, you can take a Magic action to summon an Earth Elemental. The elemental appears in an unoccupied space you choose within 30 feet of yourself, obeys your commands, and takes its turn immediately after you on your Initiative count. The elemental disappears after 1 hour, when it dies, or when you dismiss it as a Bonus Action. The stone can't be used this way again until the next dawn.

Tactical Applications​

Elemental Summoning: Provides earth elemental summoning with powerful earth-based ally control. Exceptional for summoning specialists, earth magic users, and characters requiring elemental allies and earth-based battlefield control.

Class Synergies:

  • Druids: Perfect for nature casters wanting powerful elemental allies and earth magic enhancement
  • Wizards: Essential for summoning specialists needing reliable elemental control and earth manipulation
  • Sorcerers: Excellent for earth bloodline casters requiring elemental summoning and earth mastery
  • Summoning Builds: Outstanding for characters prioritizing creature summoning and elemental ally themes

Build Considerations: Provides powerful summoning without attunement but limited uses per day. Most valuable for characters specializing in summoning magic and earth-themed abilities.

Acquisition Methods​

Crafting Requirements: Requires summoning magic, earth enchantments, and elemental essences. Creation cost 8,000-16,000 gp and takes 18 weeks.

Common Sources:

  • Elemental summoning specialists and earth enchanters
  • Treasure hoards of legendary elementalists and earth masters
  • Commission from enchanters specializing in summoning magic
  • Found in the collections of elemental researchers and earth specialists
  • Sometimes discovered in earth elemental locations or obtained from elemental encounters

Alternative Acquisition: Often found in locations with strong connections to earth magic and elemental themes.

Value & Trade​

Estimated Value: 12,000-24,000 gp, with higher demand among summoning specialists and earth magic users.

Trade Considerations: Popular among elementalists and anyone requiring powerful earth allies and elemental control.

Character Integration​

Roleplay Elements: Suggests experience with elemental magic, earth mastery, or professional roles requiring elemental summoning and earth expertise.

Character Concepts:

  • Elemental master with earth expertise and summoning experience
  • Earth specialist using elemental magic for ally summoning and earth enhancement
  • Character with extensive experience in earth environments requiring elemental capabilities
  • Summoning specialist combining earth magic with traditional elemental techniques

Adventure Hooks​

The Elemental Crisis: Earth scenarios where elemental allies provide crucial combat advantages and earth solutions.

The Summoning Quest: Elemental adventures where earth control determines magical effectiveness and elemental mastery.

The Earth Challenge: Environmental situations where earth magic enables terrain manipulation and elemental superiority.

The Elemental War: Earth conflicts where elemental control advances tactical positioning and earth dominance.

Variants & Customization​

Greater Stone of Earth Control (Rare): Enhanced elemental power and additional summoning abilities with improved earth capabilities.

Stone of Ultimate Earth (Very Rare): Includes comprehensive earth magic and ultimate elemental control.

Elemental Master's Stone (Uncommon): Optimized for summoning with enhanced earth bonuses and elemental features.

Specialized Variants:

  • Mountain Lord's Stone: Enhanced for mountain environments with improved earth control and terrain mastery
  • Cavern Stone: Optimized for underground use with enhanced tunneling and earth manipulation
  • Earthquake Stone: Specialized for seismic magic with enhanced earth damage and terrain alteration

Lore & History​

Origins: Created by earth lords who needed reliable elemental allies for their earth mastery and elemental research.

Historical Significance: These stones enabled crucial elemental victories and the mastery of earth summoning techniques throughout elemental history.

Cultural Impact: Represent the harmony between mortals and earth elementals and the effectiveness of elemental alliance.

Magical Craft: Demonstrates understanding of summoning magic and the complex processes required for elemental enhancement.

Balancing Notes​

Introduction Timing: Appropriate for levels 6-14 when summoning becomes important and elemental allies provide significant advantages.

Campaign Impact: Provides powerful summoning capabilities balanced by limited daily uses and earth elemental focus.

Earth Focus: Most valuable in campaigns featuring earth themes and elemental magic encounters.

Encounter Design​

Recommended Challenges:

  • Earth scenarios where elemental allies enable superior combat effectiveness and earth mastery
  • Summoning encounters where earth control provides tactical advantages and elemental assistance
  • Elemental challenges where earth enhancement determines ally effectiveness and elemental superiority
  • Environmental situations where earth allies advance objective completion and elemental mastery

Elemental Adjustments: Encounters may need to account for powerful earth elemental ally and enhanced earth combat capabilities.

Elemental Items: Other items that enhance summoning and provide elemental capabilities.

Earth Equipment:

  • Items that improve elemental effectiveness and earth capabilities
  • Equipment for summoning enhancement and elemental mastery
  • Tools for earth magic and elemental development

Complementary Equipment: Items that enhance summoning abilities or provide additional elemental benefits.

Roleplay Opportunities​

Elemental Mastery: Characters develop expertise in summoning techniques and earth magic.

Earth Leadership: Elemental capabilities create opportunities for leading earth missions and elemental operations.

Summoning Excellence: Earth magic enables impressive demonstrations of elemental mastery and summoning superiority.