Flesh to stone Spell

[Jarleth]

Question came up tonight. Does Flesh to Stone effect undead? Obviously not incorporeal undead like wraiths or ghosts, or undead without flesh like skeletons but what about liches, zombies, ghouls, ghasts and wights? The spell says it effects creatures made of flesh. Any suggestions.

[BenS]

Jarleth wrote:

Question came up tonight. Does Flesh to Stone effect undead? Obviously not incorporeal undead like wraiths or ghosts, or undead without flesh like skeletons but what about liches, zombies, ghouls, ghasts and wights? The spell says it effects creatures made of flesh. Any suggestions.

Undead have immunity to "any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect also works on objects or is harmless)". [MM p. 317, Undead Subtype]

So I think the answer, sadly, is no.

[Jarleth]

But one could argue that a pile of flesh or a dead body could be turned to stone. So the spell could be said to work on objects. I think I will have to agree with you that undead aren't affect. Otherwise they'll just try and petrify the Dracolich.

[Vivar]

Yup. Flesh to Stone only affects creatures, not objects, (Target: One Creature)and allows a Fortitude Save, so no effect on undead, which is weird, since Stone to Flesh DOES affect objects...so you can turn a statue into a corpse but not a corpse into a statue, which is quite counter-intuitive.

I guess the game designers weren´t sure about what to do when you turn a skeleton into stone (the skeleton has not organs, muscles or blood, only bones, so why would it stop moving even if its bones turn into stone? On the other hand you can´t use Animate Dead on statues...etc.) so they just decided undead weren´t affected.