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<blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6238710" data-attributes="member: 6669384">In the classic game, &quot;20 questions&quot;, from whence comes the &quot;Animal, Vegetable or Mineral&quot; distinction, leaves on the ground are considered &quot;Vegetable&quot;, as is a Zucini, even though they are a dead part of what was once a whole, live plant.&nbsp; Similarly, a steak is considered &quot;Animal&quot;, even though it's clearly dead.The Kingdom category presumes that pretty much everything falls into one of those categories.&nbsp; For D&amp;D I'd have to add another category or two for &quot;energy&quot; and &quot;magic&quot;.&nbsp; But by the classic definitions, dead Efreet parts would be in the same Kingdom as a live Efreet.But the point hardly matters.And for the record, I'm not the DM in this situation.&nbsp; I'm the player of the character with Polymorph Any Object available.&nbsp; Mine is also the character who really wanted to avoid unnecessary killing.So the limitations I was looking to justify were the limitations on my own character's abilities and actions.The DM and I have agreed to avoid the entire subject.&nbsp; Neither of us wants to establish the precedent that the spell can raise the dead, be they outsiders or not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greenfield, post: 6238710, member: 6669384"] In the classic game, "20 questions", from whence comes the "Animal, Vegetable or Mineral" distinction, leaves on the ground are considered "Vegetable", as is a Zucini, even though they are a dead part of what was once a whole, live plant. Similarly, a steak is considered "Animal", even though it's clearly dead. The Kingdom category presumes that pretty much everything falls into one of those categories. For D&D I'd have to add another category or two for "energy" and "magic". But by the classic definitions, dead Efreet parts would be in the same Kingdom as a live Efreet. But the point hardly matters. And for the record, I'm not the DM in this situation. I'm the player of the character with [I]Polymorph Any Object[/I] available. Mine is also the character who really wanted to avoid unnecessary killing. So the limitations I was looking to justify were the limitations on my own character's abilities and actions. The DM and I have agreed to avoid the entire subject. Neither of us wants to establish the precedent that the spell can raise the dead, be they outsiders or not. [/QUOTE]

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