D&D 5E Medieval Plastic Surgery At Its Best

Chryssa De Antoni—or the Coiled Sculptress (CR 11) as she’s now known—is a talented medusa that burrowed her way into the criminal underground. She turns her customers to stone and resculpts their faces, carefully chiseling away their old identities before using her unique magical gifts to restore them, turning her artistry into flesh and blood. Hers is not a profession of kindness however, and the foolish customers that don’t say the right passwords or pay the right amounts become raw materials for Chryssa’s less traditional masterpieces (doomed forever more as a CR 2 Fleshsculpt). Delicately designed by Andrew Engelbrite, illustrated by Leonardo Sa.

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[Mike Myler]

See also Will Gawned's excellent Intriguing Organizations: The Stone Path for more clever and rewarding uses of petrification.

 

[Nightfly]

Do you know any medusas who can do this in real life? Asking for a friend.

 

[Vincent55]

This would not work, as they are stone all the way through she could shave off a bit of skin but would cut into the underlayers after a bit. Turning back to the flesh would cause the missing parts to bleed out or if carved into deep hurt muscles or bones make limbs and other parts useless and severe pain and trauma. But hay it is a made-up game so do what you like, doesn't have to make sense I mean just remove the head and you could just be a living head with no body by this logic, lol

 

[Mike Myler]

Do you know any medusas who can do this in real life? Asking for a friend.

I feel like my mother in law might be able to do this but she's all booked up for a good while.

 

[SkidAce]

This would not work, as they are stone all the way through she could shave off a bit of skin but would cut into the underlayers after a bit. Turning back to the flesh would cause the missing parts to bleed out or if carved into deep hurt muscles or bones make limbs and other parts useless and severe pain and trauma. But hay it is a made-up game so do what you like, doesn't have to make sense I mean just remove the head and you could just be a living head with no body by this logic, lol

Well since it can turn the bits to "stone all the way through" I dont see why it couldn't turn stone into "skin" where appropriate.

I guess it depends on whether you adhere to "magic as physics", or "sympathetic magic".

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

Sounds like a good plot device if you do not think too hard about chiseling off what would be flesh and somehow the new stuff on the outside turns into flesh instead of being something Lord Bolton (GoT) would be proud of.

Magic.

Could Stoneshape help?

I’ve already thought of this with flesh to stone and stone shape.

So you’re not chipping into the stone, just reshaping it. Having stone masonry or some such tool proficiency would allow you to do the “detailed” work that is required in the stone shape description.

Being a Medusa just lets you do the petrification part more easily.

Edit: sorry, it’s fabricate that requires a tool proficiency to do refined work.

 

[Vincent55]

Well since it can turn the bits to "stone all the way through" I dont see why it couldn't turn stone into "skin" where appropriate.

I guess it depends on whether you adhere to "magic as physics", or "sympathetic magic".

well if you take a person's head off while in stone and turn to flesh would it hurt the person, if so then so would cutting away parts of the body.

 

[Koloth]

So do the removed bits become flesh again when the revert to living thing happens? Asking for a pet.

 

[Mike Myler]

So do the removed bits become flesh again when the revert to living thing happens? Asking for a pet.

Only the creature being targeted removes the petrification, so unless your pet is keen on eating rocks (I have one of those, she is an idiot) they're out of luck.

 

[Savage Wombat]

Yeah, I like it better with Stone Shape. Keep the aesthetic by making it a magical chisel.