The World of Layonara
The Layonara Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: darkstorme on July 24, 2006, 07:23:04 AM
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This would be unremittingly evil, most likely... but it's an interesting concept, so I thought I'd propose it in General Discussion and see the reaction.
What would happen if you mined a creature upon whom you'd just successfully cast Flesh to Stone? What is the mineral content, say, of a petrified elf? It would be a thoroughly evil source of CNR, but temptation towards alignment violation is always a good thing, IMHO. So, minable enemies? Thoughts?
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I think what the spell does is turn the object into a granite-like material. If such is the case, then what would be mined would be a granite-like rock... so, nothing useful for our CNR system. However, still useful in killing or displaying your enemies....
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Ahh...but you could make kitchen countertops out of them. *nods a few times*
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Either that.....or use them as statues to adorn your home....that would be good. Turn a large Ogre into stone and have it as a decoration in your home.
Nice
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"Ahh, and here we have the newest addition to the house. It's furnished with only the finest of marble from petrified illithid and drow. Each counter top was molded from their torsos, while each of the side tables, as you can see, are supported by the creatures' lower appendages."
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LordCove - 7/24/2006 10:39 AM
Either that.....or use them as statues to adorn your home....that would be good. Turn a large Ogre into stone and have it as a decoration in your home.
Nice
Yeah, right until someone decides to cast "dispel magic" or "stone to flesh" on your collection. Layonara homeowner's insurance doesn't cover that kind of damage.
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heh, that's why you drill a nice litttle hole in the throat of each statue, so that ~if~ someone restores them, they come back to life significantly damaged and don't actually live very long.
they also make lovely fountains.
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Or take the approach used in the Dungeon adventure "The Statue Garden", where the medusa responsible for the statues carefully snapped the head off each statue and then replaced it with a drop of glue to hold it in place. However, "Stone to Flesh" would still be a messy spell to cast in such a well-adorned home.
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two words.......lawn gnomes
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eek!
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A maralith can be my coat rack.
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Wow. "A bead of petrified flesh." How's that for an item name? A focus component for... Och, I dunno, Power Word: Kill?
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Flesh to Stone and Stone to Flesh ;)
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Reminds me of King's Quest, with the gingerbread people outside the witch's house.
Also, do people feel the time pass when they're petrified? I've never actually read up on petrification effects, and so forth. A cruel trick to play would be to flesh-to-stone someone, move them and cast a disguise upon yourself, stone-to-flesh them and tell them that it's two or three hundred years in the future and that everyone they love is long, long gone.
I like the idea of a garden gnome. Turor would probably buy petrified goblins to adorn his home or something. :)
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What happens when you cast Stone to Flesh on, say, a lump of granite?
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I think it's meant only to restore someone under the effects of petrification--not to turn any lump of stone into some fleshy pieces. So unless the lump of granite was a petrified brownie... probably nothing. Or maybe it turns mushy. But I doubt it. :)
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So a stone to flesh spell doesn't turn rocks into tasty morsels? I thought that was where chicken fingers came from. I guess I'll keep buying a bunch of cook's specials before I go adventuring.
Esi
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Stone to flesh... a mage's source of trail rations. Nice!
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Adventurer 1: mmm...that smells good. Whatcha cookin' up there, Frank?
Adventurer 2: This? Oh just some bricks from that ruined tower we passed about a mile back...Want a slice?
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Totally doing that in my next PnP session, Dorg. Wow.
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Stephen_Zuckerman - 7/24/2006 10:02 PM
What happens when you cast Stone to Flesh on, say, a lump of granite?
You'll get a lump-of-granite sized chuck of fleshy goop, I imagine. Useful, if a tad messy, for eliminating a boulder blocking an escape path. (Cast StF and hack away.)
Or, for the more tactically-minded, good for removing/weakening one or more key support stones in a bridge, wall, or tower.
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You guys are making me hungry... Thank god i'm on my lunch break now, though. :)
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Just hope another more powerful mage dont dispel your spell after you ate the Bricks.
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Well.. Ina PNP setting flesh to stone and Vice a versa has it very handy Food preserving effects.. Cook some meat stone it and Poof... you got food for like ever.. Better than the Cleric's purify food and drink spells and you can make a killing selling stone meat to other mages that travle far and beyond if they can carry the extra weight or some one to carry it.
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@Force_Of_Will - you can't dispel StF or FtS - only the counterspell will work.
And as it happens, there's a character on Layo whose backstory specifies that they were petrified 400 years prior to present and were restored by a passing mage.
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Force_of_Will_ - 7/25/2006 8:36 AM
Just hope another more powerful mage dont dispel your spell after you ate the Bricks.
I've heard of passing a stone, but... ouch!
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Actually, PnP... Flesh to Stone then a miniaturizing spell, and blamo. Counterspell the micro, counterspell the FtS, a little Burning Hands action and you're good to go.
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Actually, my DM allowed turning solid granite into hunks of meat. It was a wonderful way to beat a dragon. Our two wizards cast a series of stone-to-flesh spells, and the DM ruled that the rules would be like stone-to-mud spells. The dragon was sleeping, and was awoken by a big pile of meat. It began eating happily, and then we turned the ground to mud beneath it, then turned the mud to stone. Warriors hacked away, dragon died, we got bonus XP for tactics, and plunder beyond our wildest dreams. :)