Making an acid elemental savant, is it not possible with Core?

[LordVyreth]

I'm also unimpressed with this interpretation. While it appears to follow the RAW, it certainly doesn't coincide with the spirit of the class. I would tell any player that tried to pull that kind of stunt to think about what the spirit of the requirements are, and then enforce those spirits by DM fiat.

Of course, I only game with reasonable people, so we wouldn't have that conversation in the first place.

I tend to agree with Alchemist on the issue, so the Acid Breath spell (or just making a new spell up,) seems like the best bet. I actually saw that one on a list, but I don't have that book, and I am not fond of just asking for something from a published book.

On an unrelated note, does anyone else prefer the 3.0 version of the Elemental Savant? I can see lowering the elemental focus and even the loss of another caster level, but I don't like that the Savant automatically turns all energy spells into the chosen element. It makes sense to make a majority of them into the chosen energy to benefit from the class' powers, but spellcasters should have the option to save a few spells in other elements when fighting things immune to the chosen Savant's focus.

Oh, and I am the DM in this case.

 

[Felix]

Summon Monster III will qualify as a [Fire] spell.

When you use a summoning spell to summon an air, chaotic, earth, evil, fire, good, lawful, or water creature, it is a spell of that type.

Would an Earth spell not qualify for Acid? I know the element and the energy were linked in 3.0.

 

[Arkhandus]

No, they are not synonymous. They're just kind-of-related in 3.x. The only energy descriptor that Summon Monster/Summon Nature's Ally can have is the Fire descriptor, and that's basically just because it uniquely doubles as an elemental descriptor.

Also: Since the spells don't possess the 'acid' descriptor through Energy Substitution until you actually cast them, and only possess it for that moment, you don't really 'know' them as acid spells.