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<blockquote data-quote="Philip" data-source="post: 2497382" data-attributes="member: 10993">I fail to see why. Some objects are animate, others aren't, some have mental ability scores, other's don't, some work like creatures (constructs), other's don't. My reading is the best interpretation I can come up with that makes sense, is playable and does justice to the spell's power. It is hardly RAW since the statue spell is too vague in many areas. One thing it isn't vague about is that it turns you into a statue. You stated that the subject does not turn into a statue because the 'solid stone' according to you does not refer to the spell's name (it could just as well be 'Terrible Form'). And when the spell text reads &quot;breaking off one of the statue's arms&quot; is also somehow flavor text? How should that word be interpreted?To me it seems you read into the spell what you want to read. While I am fine with you ruling 'the statue' to be animate, I am baffled why you do it based on the fact that you think there is not enough evidence that the spell turns you into a statue.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Philip, post: 2497382, member: 10993"] I fail to see why. Some objects are animate, others aren't, some have mental ability scores, other's don't, some work like creatures (constructs), other's don't. My reading is the best interpretation I can come up with that makes sense, is playable and does justice to the spell's power. It is hardly RAW since the statue spell is too vague in many areas. One thing it isn't vague about is that it turns you into a statue. You stated that the subject does not turn into a statue because the 'solid stone' according to you does not refer to the spell's name (it could just as well be 'Terrible Form'). And when the spell text reads "breaking off one of the statue's arms" is also somehow flavor text? How should that word be interpreted? To me it seems you read into the spell what you want to read. While I am fine with you ruling 'the statue' to be animate, I am baffled why you do it based on the fact that you think there is not enough evidence that the spell turns you into a statue. :confused: [/QUOTE]

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