Petrified wood

[Loren Pechtel]

Did a treant lose an encounter with a medusa?

Or did a gorgon go nuts in the forest?

Any other explanations I'm missing?

 

[MNblockhead]

1. A tree, or tree-like plant, was completely transitioned to stone by the process of permineralization.

2. An aroused exhibitionist exposed himself to Medusa.

3. A transmutation experiment gone awry.

4. Stone golems in the form of trees / treants.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

5. Trees from the elemental plane of Earth.

 

[Dioltach]

Someone was scared stiff.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Fossilized by chaos magic or a random planar gate or accidental planar rift

 

[Loren Pechtel]

1. A tree, or tree-like plant, was completely transitioned to stone by the process of permineralization.

That's too mundane.

2. An aroused exhibitionist exposed himself to Medusa.

Good one.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

3-D printer error from an alternative dimension.

 

[Joshua Randall]

D&D actually has a ton of monsters that petrify. Just from 4e (and yes, I know in 4e most effects aren't save-or-die like they used to be):

• Earthquake Dragons
• Gray Dragons
• Basilisk
• Beholder
• Cockatrice
• Gravecrawler (via an Aura! it could easily get an entire forest just by walking around)
• Magma Elemental (although the petrifaction is standing in for encased in lava, not turned to stone)
• Mavawhan (a type of demon that turns you to ice instead of to stone)
• Medusa
• Ogrémoch
• Orelax (an undead demon... metal!)
• Petrified Treant (!!!)
• Stone Giant Runecarver
• The Prince of Frost (he turns your blood to ice... also metal!)
• Tholundru (no idea, he's in The Plane Below, a level 28 earth giant)
• Zaelax (an ice archon who, you guessed it, turns people to ice)

So there you have it -- a bunch of ways for petrified wood to come about.

 

[Eltab]

Some combination of flesh to stone, stone to mud, mud to stone. Two goofball (or drunk?) magicians messing around in a grove trying to counter whatever the other one just did.

 

[Eltab]

A deadly Divine Curse was laid upon a given land, and now un-natural things can be found there. You see twisted combinations of things that should not be found together.
In what looks like it used to be a vineyard, there are plants made out of bone.