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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Liquidsabre" data-source="post: 1920852" data-attributes="member: 15635">Yea, it kinda of stymies the Elemental Savant being only able to cast [Energy] descriptor spells of a specific energy type. Though, there are still the [Force] descriptor spells at least to make use of there.The Elemental Specialty states: "When the savant casts a spell that normally deals energy damage, it's energy descriptor changes to the savant's chosen energy type, and it deals damage of that energy type instead of its normal energy type."While the the Elemental Mastery states: "The archmage can alter an arcane spell when cast so that it utilizes a different element from the one it normally uses...The caster decides whether to alter the spell's energy type and chooses the new energy type when he begins casting."As you can see it's kind of a tough call but the Elemental Specialty will ultimately override the EM special ability. Once the EM has altered the energy type the ES ability automatically changes the energy type to that of the Savant's chosen energy type. This makes EM a poor choice for an Elemental Savant character.The feat from Frostburn that you are looking for is a metamagic feat called Piercing Cold (+1 spell level). Creatures normally immune to cold take 50% damage (still no effect on creatures of the cold subtype though) and creatures with cold resistance take full damage as normal. A nice feat to have for an Elemental Savant (Cold). Using Piercing Cold as a guideline, there's no reason we couldn't see a metamagic feat for each of the four elements (cold, fire, acid, electricity) here.</blockquote>

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