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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bacon Bits" data-source="post: 8092028" data-attributes="member: 6777737">Well, I would say a few things about it:1. It doesn't say creatures who can't breathe are unaffected.2. It doesn't say creatures resistant or immune to poison or disease gain any benefits.So, that would tell me that it's not a toxin or a poison of any kind. It's not a biological feature, either. A Gorgon could petrify a Skeleton or a Black Pudding. Most constructs are immune to petrification of any kind, but not all of them so it's not even restricted to biological creatures. That means it's closer to a metallic dragon's debuff breath (e.g., a gold dragon's weakening breath). It is a gas which magically transmutes any affected creature it touches into stone. However, most elementals are also immune to petrification, suggesting that petrification is always some sort of elemental transmutation at the base magical level.Aside: I refuse to refer to atomic elements in a D&D game. In the D&D cosmology, there are 4 elements, and it's their mixture which creates different substances. Hydrogen and oxygen both exist, but one is clearly a mixture of air and water while the other is a mixture of fire and water. Hence, you can release the fire and water contained within by exposure to an imbalance of elemental fire. That's not an artistic description; that's literally what happens in the D&D universe. Gods exist, magic is real, and there are only 4 elements.</blockquote>