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It's been a while since I did one of these deep dives on converting a Magic: the Gathering card to a D&D 5e concept. Today, however, I came across the Bramble Elemental, a fairly non-exciting common that has appeared in a handful of sets. See? Fairly non-exciting. When you start to think about how to use this in 5e, though, some exciting ideas start percolating. First, let's start with the Fire Elemental stat block. Most of the core stats are the same. Flip-flopping the STR and DEX scores though, make the Bramble Elemental more of a lumbering sort. Upping the AC thanks to barkskin (seemed like too good of a fit) makes for a much tougher encounter. To counterbalance that we can in vulnerability to fire damage. The Senses and Languages we can borrow from the Tree Blight stat block. Thorny Exterior is just a simplified and weaker version of the Fire Elemental's Fire Form. The other two Fire Elemental traits were scrapped in favor of adding Progenitor, a trait inspired by the original Magic card's ability to make saprolings. The Bramble Elemental's base attack is the same as the Fire Elemental's, just with the piercing type instead. Lastly, adding the Vine Blight's Entangling Plants ability really rounds out the concept for this creature. Those are the mechanics. Story wise, the card's flavor text gives us the seeds (no pun intended) that we need. Imagine a once powerful kingdom, now weakened and withdrawn from the lands it once occupied. Nature slowly reclaims what is hers. Along the way, she lets her force known to any would be interlopers. I hope you enjoyed this fairly quick conversion. Let me know what you think!
Happy Questing!
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