Petrified and Dead

[S'mon]

The fun comes from knowing that there are things you can't survive, that there ARE things you can't come back from, that risks you take with your character ARE risks.

Yup, exactly. Well said. "Must spread XP around yadda yadda..."

 

[Riastlin]

I have a character who was petrified, thrown from a 200 ft castle tower, then was covered with lava.

I guess he was having a bad day.

Clearly his hp has dropped below negative bloodied.

Luckily an ally ran by and grabbed a piece of him before the lava rolled over.

I want to cast raise dead. My question is this.. when he dies does the Petrified status go away? Raise dead states petrified characters cannot be raised. The remove afflictions ritual, which would normally be used to remove petrify, makes it sound like you can only use it on a living creature (it does hp damage and could kill the character it's used on).

Is there any source which states that you lose the petrified condition when dead?

What'd you do? Sleep with the DM's girlfriend?

But yes, I would probably allow the remove affliction/raise dead combo to work in this situation.