PC Elementals and their gear?

[GenLang]

In my face to face game, one of the PCs is contemplating following the Elemental Savant path to tenth level (and beyond, to epic levels), but she has a question which stymies me: Doesn't turning into a fire elemental effectively end the character's playability, because the character becomes a walking fire, and thus a danger to everyone and everything she's around (that doesn't have protections against fire)?

I'm looking for rule references for how fire elementals interact with the prime material plane. Elemental Savant is from Tome & Blood. I have an idea on how to houserule this, if it indeed turns out that the character becomes a menace to mundanes everywhere, but I'm hoping to avoid doing that :>

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Salutations,

Someone is borrowing my T&B, but I don't recall the PrC changing you into an elemental at tenth level.

The savant just takes on elemental-like aspects.

Even if they did, they are spellcasters- they could make their stuff immune to fire, and polymorph themselves to interact with those.. mortals.

FD

 

[Dog Faced God]

In my face to face game, one of the PCs is contemplating following the Elemental Savant path to tenth level (and beyond, to epic levels), but she has a question which stymies me: Doesn't turning into a fire elemental effectively end the character's playability, because the character becomes a walking fire, and thus a danger to everyone and everything she's around (that doesn't have protections against fire)?

I'm looking for rule references for how fire elementals interact with the prime material plane. Elemental Savant is from Tome & Blood. I have an idea on how to houserule this, if it indeed turns out that the character becomes a menace to mundanes everywhere, but I'm hoping to avoid doing that :>

Note that the character's type becomes "elemental" at level 10, they don't become an elemental as if they were polymorphed.

Tome and Blood page 58: (emphasis added)
Upon achieving this state, the elememtal savant's appearance undergoes a minor physical change. An earth elemental savant, for example, might acquire gemlike eyes and hard, pebbly skin.

The character would not be a walking fire. Perhaps a fire elemental savant is warm to the touch, as if he had a fever, smells like brimstone, and has eyes of magma.