What would the hardness and hitpoints of a 12-foot diameter sphere of flesh be?
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Patryn of Elvenshae
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Heh - y'all realize this is just a continuation of his earlier, "How do you stop a 12' diameter stone sphere," right? (Titled, I believe, "What would the hardness and hitpoints of a 12-foot diameter stone sphere be?")
Glad to see you're taking my suggestion of using Stone to Flesh, dead! Let me know how it turns out!
Glad to see you're taking my suggestion of using Stone to Flesh, dead! Let me know how it turns out!
frankthedm
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Henry said:
the typos did it eh?
"Small" creature that takes up a 15 foot area and a -2 size penaty to attacks and AC. That it is four feet long is supported in the description, but NOT the art.
Plus the more HP & HD than an ogre and a paralyzing bite [which really does not even FIT the creature] at cr2?
Still it is one of those Cool Idea monsters that should be stated. I painted one up a few months ago.
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Lonely Tylenol
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If this is that "wizard's challenge" to destroy a boulder, keep in mind that a boulder made of rock has a hell of a lot more structural integrity than a boulder made of flesh...meaning that when you turn the boulder to flesh, it will be a huge wad of soft material careening down a hillside with enough mass to crush itself under its own weight. It'll likely burst open and splatter like a tomato.
You get bonus points for "style" if you use Major Image to make it scream as it explodes into a pile of goo.
You get bonus points for "style" if you use Major Image to make it scream as it explodes into a pile of goo.
Stormrunner
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But a tomato has a partially-liquid center. If you drop a steak on the ground it doesn't splatter.
I guess it depends on what counts as "flesh". If you turn it into a 12-foot eyeball it might go splat; a 12-foot pot roast wouldn't.
I guess it depends on what counts as "flesh". If you turn it into a 12-foot eyeball it might go splat; a 12-foot pot roast wouldn't.
Lonely Tylenol
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I bet it would. 12 feet of meat rolling down a hill has more inertial force than meat was designed to hold together. A steak doesn't splat because it's small, and the ratio of mass to structural soundness is low.
Consider a banana. You can lift a banana from any point and it'll stay whole. But if you had a ten foot long banana, and you tried to lift it from one end, it would break off toward the middle due to the weight of the banana being greater than banana flesh was meant to handle. I predict the same sort of effect with a giant ball of flesh. Only instead of snapping off, it would collapse and burst. Maybe not a shower of flesh, if what we're talking about is a giant pot roast, but certainly a flattened, split-open potroast.
Besides, who says Stone to Flesh turns stone only into muscle? Imagine a 12-foot diameter fat guy with no bones (or bones not connected into a functional skeleton) suddenly finding himself travelling at 50 kph down a hillside.
Consider a banana. You can lift a banana from any point and it'll stay whole. But if you had a ten foot long banana, and you tried to lift it from one end, it would break off toward the middle due to the weight of the banana being greater than banana flesh was meant to handle. I predict the same sort of effect with a giant ball of flesh. Only instead of snapping off, it would collapse and burst. Maybe not a shower of flesh, if what we're talking about is a giant pot roast, but certainly a flattened, split-open potroast.
Besides, who says Stone to Flesh turns stone only into muscle? Imagine a 12-foot diameter fat guy with no bones (or bones not connected into a functional skeleton) suddenly finding himself travelling at 50 kph down a hillside.
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BSF
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I once had a group that was stuck behind a stone wall in a cavern. They knew they wanted to get through quickly and they had Stone to Flesh available. It was much quicker to hack through the flesh wall then through the stone wall.
It was a pretty gross concept and I kind of attributed it to the subconscious influence of being in a drow cavern complex...
It was a pretty gross concept and I kind of attributed it to the subconscious influence of being in a drow cavern complex...
HellHound
ENnies winner and NOT Scrappy Doo
Two things
1 - according to customer support (yeah, not the most reliable of sources), Stone to Flesh makes bones in addition. The example we asked about was a statue (that was NOT a petrified person, but an actual statue), stone to flesh, then animate dead. The response was positive, that this would create a zombie, or even a skeleton if the animator wanted, with the flesh falling off the bones of the corpse created by the stone to flesh. I tend to disagree, mind you.
2 - In one of our campaigns, the bad-guy cast a modified version of stone to flesh on the inner sanctum of the lawful good clergy's temple. This version gave the flesh hundreds of human-sized mouths... the temple was crying for food when it was discovered. Well, our party hunted down the bad-guy, offed the poor jerk, and took his spell book. Everyone forgot the special feature of his stone to flesh until nearly a real-world year later... when the paladin was petrified by a medusa.
Poor bastard never takes off his armour anymore... people just tend to assume you are an evil monster when your entire body is covered in hungry mouths.
1 - according to customer support (yeah, not the most reliable of sources), Stone to Flesh makes bones in addition. The example we asked about was a statue (that was NOT a petrified person, but an actual statue), stone to flesh, then animate dead. The response was positive, that this would create a zombie, or even a skeleton if the animator wanted, with the flesh falling off the bones of the corpse created by the stone to flesh. I tend to disagree, mind you.
2 - In one of our campaigns, the bad-guy cast a modified version of stone to flesh on the inner sanctum of the lawful good clergy's temple. This version gave the flesh hundreds of human-sized mouths... the temple was crying for food when it was discovered. Well, our party hunted down the bad-guy, offed the poor jerk, and took his spell book. Everyone forgot the special feature of his stone to flesh until nearly a real-world year later... when the paladin was petrified by a medusa.
Poor bastard never takes off his armour anymore... people just tend to assume you are an evil monster when your entire body is covered in hungry mouths.
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