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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 3188255" data-attributes="member: 141">The item SR is unique, as far as I know, to transmute metal to wood.  Perhaps it should stay that way; <s>let's try it at 10 + caster level for a -6 mitigation factor.</s> No save for magic items?  That might be a little harsh.  How about a weaker version of SR instead?  And I think you are right about the massive areas.  I was thinking about battle-field effects the last few days, but now I'm back-peddling.The reversible aspect of flesh to stone has always bugged me.  If it were a permanent curse I could see that a specialized spell could reverse it, but instantaneous effects aren't supposed to leave behind any magical residue that can be undone.  As the description of dispel magic says, "The effect of a spell with an instantaneous duration can’t be dispelled, because the magical effect is already over before the dispel magic can take effect."  Spells that reconstruct a creature or object should be the only things that work (CLW or raise dead or something).  I wonder: If you use true seeing to examine a group of statues, can you tell which one are really people?  I bet you could.Which makes me think that flesh to stone is really a permanent curse not subject to generic dispels (i.e. to any effect that doesn't call it out fairly specifically), I wonder if it could be given a (D)- make it so the caster could restore the petrified individual to flesh.  Combined with epic irreversibility that would be quite neat.   BTW, the reference to break enchantment reversing flesh to stone is not in the SRD.  And it contradicts the line where it says that "if the spell is one that cannot be dispelled by dispel magic, break enchantment works only if that spell is 5th level or lower.The rules forum people think that the reference to flesh to stone in the PHB description is to provide an example of an instantaneous transmutation, not a declaration that break enchantment would actually work on it.  This is not an obvious reading, but it does resolve the contradiction and explain why the SRD omits it.Break enchantment can apparently reverse awaken and reincarnate.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> I'll incorporate the changes soon.</blockquote>

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