Elemental Body - Earth Glide doesn't work?


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Think I'm missing something somewhere: I've a druid due to gain the ability to change into an Earth Elemental shortly, and I noticed that the rules are based upon 'Elemental Body', granting access to earth glide >>>

Earth Glide (Ex)
When the creature burrows, it can pass through stone, dirt, or almost any other sort of earth except metal as easily as a fish swims through water.(snip)

...Except that elemental body never grants a caster/wildshaper the burrow speed of an earth elemental, meaning that earth glide doesn't work (unless I can source a burrow speed from a spell!) as I can't burrow.

I'm sure that this isn't RAI - has it never come up before, or am I missing something obvious in the RAW.


Argh. Full Burrow speed gained automatically. For some reason, I thought it was like the fly speed of the Air elemental.


Hm. Interesting point. I think it's "obvious" that the speed should be 20 ft (since that's the ground speed and burrow speed of an earth elemental), but it doesn't actually say that you get a burrow speed, or that you can use your ground speed instead.

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