On the nature of elementals.

[Adjathazar]

Hi all

Despite the rather ambitious title, the questions I pose are rather simple:

1) Does the nature of elementals (being composed entirely of one of the 4 elements) protect them from the attacks of a black pudding, which specifically states that it only affects organic materials and metal?

2) Would a druid character wild shaped into an elemental be similar immune?

3) Does/should the nature of elementals not protect them from other conditions, i.e. poison is specifically mentioned, but disease is not, though it clearly requires a normal physiology...

4) How exactly does melee weapons damage/effect an elemental?... disperse it? What would this translate to for a polymorphed character... wounds, blood loss?

5) Does the nature fx air elementals grant feather falling in case of stun or similar? (since your weight is that of ambient air, and you can't really "fall" in a mass thats equal to your own).

Very much looking forward to your response.

[Ascalaphus]

1) Interesting question. I'd say they're indeed immune to the acid damage. Obviously the slam damage still works. Nice find.

2) No. Druids that turn into an elemental don't inherit all the properties of the elemental, just the ones Elemental Body gives them. Turning into a fire elemental doesn't give you full fire immunity for example, just Resistance 20.

3) Not according to the rules. Strange. Given how well PF diseases jump from creature type to creature type, epidemics can really come out of nowhere...

4) I imagine an elemental is a sort of "matrix" holding together base matter. Beating it up damages the matrix, making it lose cohesion.

5) I think they have supernatural flight, so when stunned I don't think they fall. But if they're in a suppressed-magic zone, they would fall, because PF physics isn't really all that sophisticated...