What would the hardness and hitpoints of a 12-foot diameter sphere of flesh be?

[dead]

If I turned a 12-foot diameter boulder into flesh with the Stone to Flesh spell (I might need a couple), what would its hardness and hitpoints be?

If the above boulder was still in stone form and someone tried to stop it with, say, a Bigby's Forcefull Hand or a Huge Earth Elemental, what would the boulder's effective strength (or effective bullrush bonus?) be when rolling down a hill? How would its effective Strength compare when it is a stone to when it is a ball of flesh?

Thankyou.

 

[CRGreathouse]

If I turned a 12-foot diameter boulder into flesh with the Stone to Flesh spell (I might need a couple), what would its hardness and hitpoints be?

If the above boulder was still in stone form and someone tried to stop it with, say, a Bigby's Forcefull Hand or a Huge Earth Elemental, what would the boulder's effective strength (or effective bullrush bonus?) be when rolling down a hill? How would its effective Strength compare when it is a stone to when it is a ball of flesh?

A 12-ft diameter sphere has a volume of about 905 cubic feet. Human flesh is a little denser than water (specific gravity about 1.03), so I'd say 64.3 pounds to the cubic foot. This gives just over 29 tons for such a flesh-boulder.

A similar boulder of rock would weigh about 70 1/2 tons.

A 12-ft diameter *creature* would be Huge, and a Huge quadruoped would need Strength about 38 to drag 70.5 tons, or Str 49 to lift it over its head. That's the best I can do in that regard....

 

[dead]

Thanks. That gives me a good figure to work with.

 

[jerichothebard]

That, by the way, is nasty.


In a *whoah cool* sorta way.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

I read the thread title and asked myself "why does this man need information on Titan testicles?"

AR

 

[Piratecat]

Holy crap on a stick. Imagine your bored mage who has turned his entire dungeon from rock into flesh. Why? Just bored, really, or maybe he wants to animate it. . . but what a creepy environment to explore for the PCs who come visit him.

 

[jerichothebard]

Holy crap on a stick. Imagine your bored mage who has turned his entire dungeon from rock into flesh. Why? Just bored, really, or maybe he wants to animate it. . . but what a creepy environment to explore for the PCs who come visit him.

Suddenly, I have a feeling I know what's going to turn up in the DoD storyhour sometime in February... (2006)

 

[Kemrain]

Holy crap on a stick. Imagine your bored mage who has turned his entire dungeon from rock into flesh. Why? Just bored, really, or maybe he wants to animate it. . . but what a creepy environment to explore for the PCs who come visit him.

A stone you turned to flesh wouldn't become alive, would it? So, it'd all start to rot, pretty quickly... Not only are you venturing into a deep, dark, wet, fleshy oriface in the ground... It's decomposing... I think we've found a use for the Giant Maggots in the BoVD.

- Kemrain, who doesn't actually own the BoVD and can't back up the thought that there are Giant Maggots in it's pages.

- Kemrain the Grosed Out.

 

[Delemental]

A stone you turned to flesh wouldn't become alive, would it? So, it'd all start to rot, pretty quickly... Not only are you venturing into a deep, dark, wet, fleshy oriface in the ground... It's decomposing... I think we've found a use for the Giant Maggots in the BoVD.

A mage that would actually do something like this would probably also develop some variation of gentle repose that would cover the rotting problem.

Of course, said mage would also probably be able to solve the "not alive" issue with his fleshy dungeon, too. But then you have to feed it... wait, that's what adventurers are for.

Oh, and of course the truly twisted mage will wait until the party is in the middle of the living dungeon, and then cast Otto's irresistible dance on the dungeon.

 

[Sejs]

I know there are Dire Maggots in one of the books, but I'll be damned if I can remember which one at the moment.


Which sort of begs the question... what do Dire Maggots grow up to become?