Petrified wood

Loren Pechtel · Jan 3, 2019

Did a treant lose an encounter with a medusa?

Or did a gorgon go nuts in the forest?

Any other explanations I'm missing?

MNblockhead · Jan 3, 2019

1. A tree, or tree-like plant, was completely transitioned to stone by the process of permineralization.

2. An aroused exhibitionist exposed himself to Medusa.

3. A transmutation experiment gone awry.

4. Stone golems in the form of trees / treants.

Dannyalcatraz · Jan 3, 2019

5. Trees from the elemental plane of Earth.

Dioltach · Jan 3, 2019

Someone was scared stiff.

LuisCarlos17f · Jan 3, 2019

Fossilized by chaos magic or a random planar gate or accidental planar rift

Loren Pechtel · Jan 4, 2019

MNblockhead said:
1. A tree, or tree-like plant, was completely transitioned to stone by the process of permineralization.

That's too mundane.

2. An aroused exhibitionist exposed himself to Medusa.

Good one.

Dannyalcatraz · Jan 4, 2019

3-D printer error from an alternative dimension.

Joshua Randall · Jan 4, 2019

D&D actually has a ton of monsters that petrify. Just from 4e (and yes, I know in 4e most effects aren't save-or-die like they used to be):

Earthquake Dragons
Gray Dragons
Basilisk
Beholder
Cockatrice
Gravecrawler (via an Aura! it could easily get an entire forest just by walking around)
Magma Elemental (although the petrifaction is standing in for encased in lava, not turned to stone)
Mavawhan (a type of demon that turns you to ice instead of to stone)
Medusa
Ogrémoch
Orelax (an undead demon... metal!)
Petrified Treant (!!!)
Stone Giant Runecarver
The Prince of Frost (he turns your blood to ice... also metal!)
Tholundru (no idea, he's in The Plane Below, a level 28 earth giant)
Zaelax (an ice archon who, you guessed it, turns people to ice)

So there you have it -- a bunch of ways for petrified wood to come about.

Eltab · Jan 6, 2019

Some combination of flesh to stone, stone to mud, mud to stone. Two goofball (or drunk?) magicians messing around in a grove trying to counter whatever the other one just did.

Eltab · Jan 6, 2019

A deadly Divine Curse was laid upon a given land, and now un-natural things can be found there. You see twisted combinations of things that should not be found together.
In what looks like it used to be a vineyard, there are plants made out of bone.