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Haha. About time Evangel. I was starting to wondering when you would get tired of watching people screwing this stuff up. A pretty good guide even if it is kind of hard to read after a while. Just too much info. How about throwing in some information on counterspells and overcasting? I'll bet most of these texters haven't even heard of either.

I have but one discrepancy. Magma is earth, not fire. It's earth, much like ice is water. I figure magma is commonly depicted as under the fire element because it gives fire a much needed boost, and earth a significant nerfing. Convection seems to be absent from fictional storytelling in general, so perhaps stylizing fire which otherwise has negligible mass with something extremely hot and dense to apply blunt trauma as well as leave more lingering effects seemed like a necessary step.

It always seemed wonky to change element when you change states of matter.

Would you be adding a segment on intelligent items? and/or gemming?

One last question, if a creature's species is incapable of using magic innately, what about triggering magical devices or enchanted items?

For elementals, what about combined opposites? For example, steam is water and fire, can both types of elementals use it, or neither?
If a fire elemental worked with steam enough, would water become less of a hazard? Could an earth elemental use an air spell through the use of a magical item or would opposite items be blocked too?

If someone were to specialize in magic attained through items, would after several years that person develop a small amount of inate magical ability? I suppose this doesn't apply if the items still require training.