
DimeLes |
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Hello all...Question for you...
Are you able to tell me if the 'Break Enchantment' spell reverses petrification from a basilisk gaze? I'm searching online and finding conflicting takes on this topic (sounds like the wording leaves room for interpretation). My dog was turned to stone in my very first PFS scenario (cringe...LOL!). To stay true to my character's history/personality, his first and foremost priority would be to free his dog from this condition. So if I could use my first 2 PPs for a break enchantment spell, that would be ideal...Otherwise I have to save a bit more gold to pay 660 for a stone to flesh spell.
Curious to hear your guys' thoughts and thanks for taking the time to help...
Jim

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I think its been discussed, but I'm not sure if a change in ruling has been made.
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2kk39?Does-Break-Enchantment-reverse-petrificat ion
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2l8g9?Flesh-to-Stone-What-can-cure-this
Some say that the only way to fix it is to used the basilisk blood or one of these:
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/s/stone-to-flesh
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/wondrous-items/wondrous-items/r-z/stone -salve
Alternatively from the Guide to organized play page 24:
Spellcasting Services
Sometimes awful things happen to adventurers. After an
all-night romp through the sewers, your wounds might
start to fester with some foul disease—you might even die.
You may have spells cast on your character, subtracting the
gold piece cost from your total. If your gold is insufficient,
the other players around the table may chip in to get you
back on your feet, but they cannot be compelled to do so.
It is their choice whether or not they aid you. Additionally,
your faction may be able to aid you with certain issues as
well, so long as you have enough Prestige Points to spend
in exchange for their aid (see Fame and Prestige). Any
spellcasting purchased using Prestige Points is cast at
minimum caster level.
Generally speaking, you can pay to have spells cast on
you at any time during the scenario so long as you’re in a
settlement or have access to a temple, shrine, or wandering
mystic. Page 163 of the Core Rulebook covers the rules for
purchasing spellcasting services and the associated costs
are listed in the Spellcasting and Services table on page 159.
For Pathfinder Society Organized Play, PCs may only
purchase spells with a total cost of above 3,000 gp by visiting
a settlement with more than 5,000 residents. Any settlement
smaller than that will have a mystic or full-blown wizard or
cleric who can cast spells that cost fewer than 3,000 gp, but
never more. Please note that PCs may never purchase the
traveling service of a spellcaster—in other words, a wizard
from the local town is not, for any price, going to accompany
the PCs on their mission into the nearby haunted castle.
Spells that are 7th level or higher are not available
from spellcasting services. Spellcasters capable of casting
such spells are quite rare, and as such, cannot simply be
bartered with for higher-level spellcasting services. The
only exceptions to this rule are any 7th-level or higher
spells listed as available to be purchased by your faction.

RJGrady |

This is a weird one. On the one hand, the gaze works like flesh to stone. On the other hand, in Pathfinder, the basilisk's gaze is Extraordinary, for some reason. Since it doesn't specify to what extent the gaze works like the spell, it's not clear whether it can be reversed as if it were a transmutation.