Can Stone PC Constructs safely guzzle gasoline?


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What would the long term effects be?

What kind of DC save is it?

And what percentage chance does he have to catch fire?

Quickly, please.... I need help.


First, do you mean stone or stoned?

Now, the answers, in order . .

Stone - nothing special
Stoned - death

Stone - Fort DC 0
Stoned - Fort DC 20

Stone - 0% stone doesn't burn
Stoned - 100% when he lights up

And finally, and I know I'm making some assumption here, I get that there can be a stone construct PC, but why is he drinking gasoline? Where did he even get it?


Last time I pour gasoline on the ground and lit it on fire nothing really happened to the ground. So I'm going to say other than some color change he is fine.


Long story, but they broke their car in the middle of WW2 and had to get gasoline. And they found some but lack of buckets led to this plan.


Creative. I can see this scene in the movie version already.


Mage Evolving wrote:
Last time I pour gasoline on the ground and lit it on fire nothing really happened to the ground. So I'm going to say other than some color change he is fine.

yeah but was it 20 gallons?


The Terrible Zodin wrote:
Creative. I can see this scene in the movie version already.

Funny enough, this wasn't the weirdest thing that happened tonight.


I would think that unless it was made with a place to store such liquids they would not be drinkable, lacking a stomach where would such stuff go besides down the constructs chest. Past that though by rules constructs would be immune to the effects of drinking toxic stuff as it has no con score and is immune to effects that require a fort save unless it specifically targets objects. as for catching on fire only if there was a fire source to light the flammable liquids on fire otherwise no reason to catch on fire


New question.... What kind of poisonous status effect would gasoline cause?


Mr FuFu143 wrote:

Can Stone PC Constructs safely guzzle gasoline?

What would the long term effects be?
What kind of DC save is it?
And what percentage chance does he have to catch fire?
Quickly, please.... I need help.

Does the Stone PC construct character normally have immunity to poison? If not then they have just ingested a toxic substance. Choose an appropriate poison that will degenerate their internal organs and go to town. Probably Con, Str and Dex loss while suffering nausea or sickened. That of course assumes his internal organs react to poisons the same way a human does.

If the PC is normally immune to poison then nothing bad from drinking it (assuming he actually does eat and drink and has the facilities to do so and therefore store the gasoline).

The DC will depend on the poison you choose. If your making it up then look at appropriately leveled poisons in the Core book and use similar DC's.

I would say that he has no real chance to spontaneously combust simply for carrying gasoline inside his stone body. The gas should be stable in his 'sealed container' and it would take enough heat to kill him to cause it to ignite. Remember cars drive through the 140+ degree heat of the sahara and don't blow up. Their tanks are made of metal which is a far better conductor of heat than stone is.

If he spilled some on himself when he was drinking it then he would probably be externally flamable for a while until he was washed down or the majority evaporated. Add a +2 per die circumstance bonus to fire damage if he gets hit with it until he takes measures to clean up.

That help?

Grand Lodge

Better question:

Where did you get gasoline?

It does not exist in Golarion.


blackbloodtroll wrote:

Better question:

Where did you get gasoline?

It does not exist in Golarion.

I beleive he is running a home game where the PC's have been time warped into WW 2 Europe. He has posted other posts about the game, assuming I remember correctly.

But does it really matter? Not everyone only plays AP's set in Golarion. Some folks play in other settings or homebrew campaign worlds.

I would dare say (with no insults meant to Paizo) that if only people who liked the Golarion setting played Pathfinder they would have not sold as many core rules or expansion books as they did. There are a ton of 3.5 players using the PF rules to continue their old games in existing settings, mine being one of them.

Grand Lodge

Gilfalas wrote:


I beleive he is running a home game where the PC's have been time warped into WW 2 Europe. He has posted other posts about the game, assuming I remember correctly.

But does it really matter? Not everyone only plays AP's set in Golarion. Some folks play in other settings or homebrew campaign worlds.

I had no way of knowing that. Which, surprise, is why I asked.


blackbloodtroll wrote:
Gilfalas wrote:


I beleive he is running a home game where the PC's have been time warped into WW 2 Europe. He has posted other posts about the game, assuming I remember correctly.

But does it really matter? Not everyone only plays AP's set in Golarion. Some folks play in other settings or homebrew campaign worlds.

I had no way of knowing that. Which, surprise, is why I asked.

Really given how often you post on these forums I would have assumed you would have at least the same or better chance of knowing it as me.

After all I found out by reading posts here.

*Shrug* Not really important in the larger scheme of things, I suppose.

Grand Lodge

Well, the thing is, there are no rules for gasoline, because it does not exist.

If he makes it exist, it has to made from scratch rules-wise.

Also, I missed the post about the WW2 thing. My bad.

Basically, this seems to be a fast and loose type of game, so the DM should just come up with something reasonable, and hand-waive it.


It's creative, and has potential for further shenanigans.
File it under the "Rule of Cool", and allow it.


us D20 modern rules for gas might work well? but a hand wave prob work as well and b faster.


blackbloodtroll wrote:

Better question:

Where did you get gasoline?

It does not exist in Golarion.

Home brew game. That went through into the real world... Long story.


Does the PC stone construct have the ability to swallow the gasoline? I mean, does it have a throat and 'stomach'? If so, does it process food/drink? I mean, does it digest things?

If it has the ability, and does not digest things, then I'd say there are no consequences at all. Other than getting it back out but, I think you could just siphon it from it's stomach then. The only harm would come if you tried to light it while within him. Then, well, I think it'd be the same as if you tried to light gasoline on fire inside any container.

If the character does digest/process food, then I'd say w/o special abilities saying otherwise, it's in danger from the toxicity of the gasoline. Not to mention, the gas will be polluted by it's stomach acid and any recent meals possibly lingering down there.


Constructs wrote:


Constructs do not breathe, eat, or sleep, unless they want to gain some beneficial effect from one of these activities. This means that a construct can drink potions to benefit from their effects and can sleep in order to regain spells, but neither of these activities is required to survive or stay in good health.

It is stated that constructs can use potions, ergo, they can quaff (drink) potions, and thus can quaff/drink other things. If they could not use potions, the ARG would call that out, and since it doesn't, they can. If they can drink a potion, they can drink a bottle of gas.

How much he can internalize, and how long it lasts, is a different story. That's more up to GM decision. Either way, it's not toxic to him (construct races are immune to fort saves, thus poison, unless it explicitly works on objects), so no damage from that.

Constructs are NOT however, immune to fire damage, and have no energy resistance, thus if it burst into flames for some reason (like getting hit with a flamethrower), they'd take damage from the fire normally, probably with a bonus to damage for having gasoline burning inside them.

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