Disintegrate does not affect trees

[Dandu]

A thin, green ray springs from your pointing finger. You must make a successful ranged touch attack to hit. Any creature struck by the ray takes 2d6 points of damage per caster level (to a maximum of 40d6). Any creature reduced to 0 or fewer hit points by this spell is entirely disintegrated, leaving behind only a trace of fine dust. A disintegrated creature’s equipment is unaffected.

A tree is not a creature.

When used against an object, the ray simply disintegrates as much as one 10-foot cube of nonliving matter. Thus, the spell disintegrates only part of any very large object or structure targeted. The ray affects even objects constructed entirely of force, such as forceful hand or a wall of force, but not magical effects such as a globe of invulnerability or an antimagic field.

A tree is not nonliving matter.


Thus, Disintegrate does nothing when cast on trees.

 

[Vegepygmy]

Never mind, found the rule that answers my question.

 

[Starbuck_II]

A tree is not a creature.


A tree is not nonliving matter.


Thus, Disintegrate does nothing when cast on trees.

Not sure the utility of this, but that seems correct.

 

[Nezkrul]

A tree is not a creature.


A tree is not nonliving matter.


Thus, Disintegrate does nothing when cast on trees.

QFT, apparently can't give you an XP

 

[Empath Negative]

A tree is not a creature.


A tree is not nonliving matter.


Thus, Disintegrate does nothing when cast on trees.

It says it disintegrates as much as X cubic feet of nonliving matter. First, this could simply mean it disintegrates any portions of the tree that are not living. For example, to a human that means your epidermis just got vaporized, along with your eyelashes.

However, it the "as much as X cubic feet of nonliving matter". Not that the matter being disintegrated must be nonliving. Only that the amount disintegrated would equal X cubic feet nonliving matter.

 

[Jacob]

And thus all trees will hereby be banned from my next campaign. No more comfortable easy to make houses for the masses. This is why we cannot have good things.

 

[was]

zombie trees = nonliving matter

 

[Nezkrul]

zombie template can only be applied to a corpse, a dead tree is targetable

 

[Sekhmet]

A tree is not a creature.


A tree is not nonliving matter.


Thus, Disintegrate does nothing when cast on trees.

I disagree with your premise. One of the oldest, and most commonly cited in literature, definitions of the word "creature" is: "Anything living or existing."

In more archaic definitions, the term "or" often signifies "and". A tree fits both classifications, and is therefor a creature.

 

[Jack Simth]

I disagree with your premise. One of the oldest, and most commonly cited in literature, definitions of the word "creature" is: "Anything living or existing."

In more archaic definitions, the term "or" often signifies "and". A tree fits both classifications, and is therefor a creature.

There's a clause buried in the plant type: "Note that regular plants, such as one finds growing in gardens and fields, lack Wisdom and Charisma scores (see Nonabilities) and are not creatures, but objects, even though they are alive."