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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Philip" data-source="post: 2497263" data-attributes="member: 10993">The caster does not become an animated object, it gets the properties of a being made of solid stone. 1. Hardness - as you said, obvious2. Hit points - it is explicitily stated that the caster retains his own hit points3. Death - Yes4. Energy attacks - Yes5. Ranged weapons - Yes6. Movement - cannot move (yes), though he will never be considered helpless because he is not a creature (no, he does not change to object)7. Immunities - immune to nonlethal and critical damage (yes)8. Type - since he's no longer a creature (once again, no)9. Vulnerabilities - based on DM fiat, he could be vulnerable to a miner's pick, taking double damage and ignoring hardness (yes)10. Repaired - Could be repaired by anyone with craft (statue), (yes)11. All saving throws now at 2 + 1/2 caster level (no)12. Breaking - could be totally destroyed (i.e. killed) with a break DC what? 30? (no, monly objects) It is still a creature. It still has awareness, a free will etc. His physiology changes though. The spell states that it turns you into solid stone, not animate stone.It says that going into statue form and returning is a free action.The problem with the spell is that I think they almost literally copied the text from the 2nd edition, without giving a lot of thought to the 3rd edition mechanics. Since the spell is rarely used, it does not generate lots of questions.Are you serious? There is plenty of evidence in the spell that you become a statue. Next thing you know you will start to argue that the 'ghostly, glowing hand' mentioned in spectral hand is not actually the spectral hand. And that creatures targeted by the sleep spell do not actually sleep because they are in 'a magical slumber', or that the club or quarterstaff affected by a shilelagh spell is not actually a shilelagh because it doesn't say so. Come on  now!</blockquote>

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