Weight of Petrified People

[Voodoo]

How much do petrified people weigh? Flesh to stone is no help, nor is Statue. Stone Body (PGtF) says that you weight increses by a factor of 3, but this seems a little light to me.

So, is it stated anywhere or does anyone happen to know the weight ratio of flesh and stone?

 

[Piratecat]

Marble or granite is 168 lbs. per cubic foot. Flesh is 61-67 pounds per cubic foot. That means that a three-fold weight increase is actually a little much!

No practical experimentation to confirm this, please.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

The weight of stone is around 67kgs (147 lbs.) per cubic foot. Anyone know the weight of a cubic foot of flesh?

No practical experimentation, please.

Just use water. That is nowhere near exact, but it'll do.

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

x3 seems about right to me, judging by my experience working with concrete. Marble or something differently dense is a totally different story.

Here is a handy website that shows the comparative weights ( kg/cuubic meter ) of different materials:

http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_materials.htm

 

[Piratecat]

I edited my above post to add the weight of flesh. Here's a great site:

http://www.tesarta.com/www/resources/library/weights.html

 

[BiggusGeekus]

I edited my above post to add the weight of flesh. Here's a great site:

http://www.tesarta.com/www/resources/library/weights.html

With water being 62.4 lb/cu.ft.

::cough::I rule::cough::

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

So if the stone is Basalt or Granite, x3 is just about correct

BG - you rule

 

[Voodoo]

Piratecat, BiggusGeekus, BigFreekinGoblinoid - you all rule

 

[Tav_Behemoth]

I had a nice moment in my Porttown campaign where the party fought, in succession, a bunch of solid gold constructs and a basilisk, and came back to the dungeon with a bunch of hired sailors to cart out a bunch of gold and stone bodies! I thought about trying to calculate how many gold pieces you could make by melting down a Small humanoid figure and turning it into coins, but wound up fudging the numbers so that it came out to the amount the party would need to pay for a bunch of stone to flesh and still have enough left to catch up to their recommended GP value for their levels.

 

[tarchon]

The specific gravity of the type of stone is roughly the multiplier. Metal ores tend to be much higher than 3, but most of the aluminosilicates and carbonates are in the 2-3.5 range.
Of course, we could also look at the rule as specifying the type of stone by the spec gravity, so fluorite? Just don't attack it with acid.
I suppose petrification forms might create different types of stone, depending on the caster. Or maybe the caster can choose. I can imagine dwarf mages turning enemies into hematite and smelting them. You could get 700 lbs of iron out of a 200 lb. character...