I’d say it becomes an object. Reading the petrified condition, it says they lose any sense of their surroundings and stop aging, sounds like an object to me.
Flesh to stone spell says that if the stone version is altered, and the spell is then broken, the person stays altered. (Medusa and basilisk gaze doesn’t specify how they work, so I’d go with the spell description, she nice it seems closest to a general rule) So hopefully that stone shape didn’t take away their ability to breath.
Furniture made from petrified people would, I’d guess, just become a regular body part, assuming someone thinks to go around casting greater restoration on a table leg that looks weirdly like a human leg.
Well, with one exception. In 3e, if you cast Flesh to Stone on someone and then hack the statue to bits, they don't actually die until someone turns them back to flesh. In 5e, looks like they can die.
Unless a feature says otherwise your creature type isn't changed. The feature must specifically state the creature is now an object, like in the spell True Polymorph. However most turn-to-stone features, such as the Flesh to Stone spell, don't state they turn the creature into an object. It simply states they are petrified. This means it is a creature with the petrified condition - the condition does not state the creature is considered an object while petrified.
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Well, with one exception. In 3e, if you cast Flesh to Stone on someone and then hack the statue to bits, they don't actually die until someone turns them back to flesh. In 5e, looks like they can die.
In 1e, you were dead already, and would get 1 save.
In 5e, you get three? chances to save? and you can be brought back by a fairly decent number of classes.
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Well, with one exception. In 3e, if you cast Flesh to Stone on someone and then hack the statue to bits, they don't actually die until someone turns them back to flesh. In 5e, looks like they can die.
In 1e, you were dead already, and would get 1 save.
Nope, you were turned to stone, which was not the same as dead. It was more inconvenient than being dead, because you couldn't use raise dead on the body, needed to find a wizard who knew the 6th level spell Stone to Flesh (5e makes it a lot more convenient with Greater Restoration as a generic fix-all).
Well, with one exception. In 3e, if you cast Flesh to Stone on someone and then hack the statue to bits, they don't actually die until someone turns them back to flesh. In 5e, looks like they can die.
In 1e, you were dead already, and would get 1 save.
Nope, you were turned to stone, which was not the same as dead. It was more inconvenient than being dead, because you couldn't use raise dead on the body, needed to find a wizard who knew the 6th level spell Stone to Flesh (5e makes it a lot more convenient with Greater Restoration as a generic fix-all).
Yeah yeah, only mostly dead. Creatures that can turn you to stone were FAR more common than lvl 12 Magic Users who happen to have the right spell, and are willing to memorize it for you.
WAY easier to find a lvl 9 Cleric or Druid in 5e.
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Well, with one exception. In 3e, if you cast Flesh to Stone on someone and then hack the statue to bits, they don't actually die until someone turns them back to flesh. In 5e, looks like they can die.
In 1e, you were dead already, and would get 1 save.
Nope, you were turned to stone, which was not the same as dead. It was more inconvenient than being dead, because you couldn't use raise dead on the body, needed to find a wizard who knew the 6th level spell Stone to Flesh (5e makes it a lot more convenient with Greater Restoration as a generic fix-all).
Yeah yeah, only mostly dead. Creatures that can turn you to stone were FAR more common than lvl 12 Magic Users who happen to have the right spell, and are willing to memorize it for you.
WAY easier to find a lvl 9 Cleric or Druid in 5e.
Or Bard. Bards also get Greater Restoration in 5e
So do Divine Soul Sorcerers.
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There are a number of spells that only work on objects, or work differently on objects. How do they work on petrified targets?
(while you were petrified, I cast Stone Shape on you. I hope you don't mind your new look).
(What happens if I turn people to stone, then slice them up to make into furniture?)
I’d say it becomes an object. Reading the petrified condition, it says they lose any sense of their surroundings and stop aging, sounds like an object to me.
Flesh to stone spell says that if the stone version is altered, and the spell is then broken, the person stays altered. (Medusa and basilisk gaze doesn’t specify how they work, so I’d go with the spell description, she nice it seems closest to a general rule) So hopefully that stone shape didn’t take away their ability to breath.
Furniture made from petrified people would, I’d guess, just become a regular body part, assuming someone thinks to go around casting greater restoration on a table leg that looks weirdly like a human leg.
5e is gentler in EVERY respect.
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Well, with one exception. In 3e, if you cast Flesh to Stone on someone and then hack the statue to bits, they don't actually die until someone turns them back to flesh. In 5e, looks like they can die.
In other words, I agree with Lyxen.
True dat.
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In 1e, you were dead already, and would get 1 save.
In 5e, you get three? chances to save? and you can be brought back by a fairly decent number of classes.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
Nope, you were turned to stone, which was not the same as dead. It was more inconvenient than being dead, because you couldn't use raise dead on the body, needed to find a wizard who knew the 6th level spell Stone to Flesh (5e makes it a lot more convenient with Greater Restoration as a generic fix-all).
Yeah yeah, only mostly dead. Creatures that can turn you to stone were FAR more common than lvl 12 Magic Users who happen to have the right spell, and are willing to memorize it for you.
WAY easier to find a lvl 9 Cleric or Druid in 5e.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
So do Divine Soul Sorcerers.
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