Another "Magic breaks the economy" thread

[Hassassin]

and then the king's whisperer, who has been planning this all along, has one of the mages in his employ dispel it.

The problem I have with all these (otherwise ingenious) schemes is that a mage could do almost the same regardless of whether the salt was made of flesh or not. The spell is instantaneous and cannot be dispelled. You can cast Stone to Flesh on normal salt or formerly-fleshy salt and get the same results as long as there's no salt statue that was a living (or unliving or animated) creature when it got turned to salt.

So making the salt turn to flesh would prove nothing of the origins.

(Regenerate wouldn't matter, since the damage dealt to the creature in salt form wouldn't be converted to non-lethal.)

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

If this spell was:
-Employed upon a small army and then they were...
-Dissolved into a body of water...
-And absorbed into Dust of Dryness...

...What would be the most rapid and lowest spell level way of restoring the entire army of people back to life and effectiveness?

 

[Hassassin]

If this spell was:
-Employed upon a small army and then they were...
-Dissolved into a body of water...
-And absorbed into Dust of Dryness...

...What would be the most rapid and lowest spell level way of restoring the entire army of people back to life and effectiveness?

Outside Wish/Miracle it'd take a lot of Resurrection spells.

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

Would "turned to salt and then dissolved" = Dead?

 

[Greenfield]

About the same as "Turned to stone and then broken". Evaporate the water to leave the salt, cast Make Whole to put them back together, then Stone to Flesh to restore them.

 

[Hassassin]

About the same as "Turned to stone and then broken". Evaporate the water to leave the salt, cast Make Whole to put them back together, then Stone to Flesh to restore them.

Quoting SRD (my emphasis):

The spell does not repair items that have been warped, burned, disintegrated, ground to powder, melted, or vaporized, nor does it affect creatures (including constructs).

 

[Greenfield]

Not sure which of those would best apply to someone who was turned to salt, dissolved in water, and then re-crystalized. "Melted" is probably the best fit.

Fortunately I keep all my feathers numbered, for just such an occasion

 

[Dandu]

Technically, the word you are looking for is "dissolved", no matter what wicked witches will say.

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

Quoting SRD (my emphasis):

Technically, the word you are looking for is "dissolved", no matter what wicked witches will say.

Well then, there you go, it's an exception. Lets ignore the RAI and the fact that Make Whole was written years before Transmute Flesh to Salt was thought of.

 

[airwalkrr]

you're missing out on an incredible opportunity here. here's a plan to put this salt-minting scheme out of play for good.

let them go ahead and make a lot of money at this, turning people, mules, dragons, whatever, into salt, and sell it in the town.

they grow richer in coin, power, and prestige, until they're invited to a royal banquet. the lord, or king, or whatever hosts them at his table, along with a bunch of knights, and everyone is enjoying all the salty goodness.

and then the king's whisperer, who has been planning this all along, has one of the mages in his employ dispel it. suddenly the table is crawling with animal guts, crawling human body parts, and abominable mixes of creatures who attack the pcs, the lord, the knights, and all of the guests.

if they survive the battle against the living dinner, then they are at the mercy of a very pissed off lord, and his very pissed off knights. best case scenerio, they are stripped of all of their wealth, power, and reputation, and sent into exile.

I wish I could +1 you for this suggestion. You deserve to earn maximum plusoneage for it.