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Message: <blockquote data-quote="farscapesg1" data-source="post: 2432057" data-attributes="member: 15234">It is possible to make a decent arcane summoner.  You definitely need to take the Unearthed Arcana option of switching out Summon Familiar for the ability to cast Monster Summoning spells as a standard action.  Augment Summoning is also a given requirement.Depending on your campaign setting and the available sources, there are a few other options to help out.  Dragon Magazine published some Greyhawk regional feats, one of which was Nexus Method which allows the caster to spontaneously convert any non-conjuration spell to a Summon Monster spell of the same level.Frostburn has a feat called Beckon the Frozen that gives your summoned creatures the cold subtype and an additional 1d6 cold damage on attacks.  The feat is very basic easy to convert to whatever energy type you want (I'm personally going to talk to my DM about a fire-based one since we are currently in Cauldron and it makes more sense).There may be some more printed options that I am not aware of of course.  If anyone else has any to point out, I would be interested for my character also.There is also my custom Master Summoner prestige class of course  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Depending on your style of play it may need to be modified to your likeing, but at least it could be a start.</blockquote>

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