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1) Whether stone shape works is debatable, as the spell only works on specific types of stone. You're within your rights to make your own ruling there, I think.
2) Its hardness is 8, as normal for stone.
3) Its hp is based on material in thickness. Way more than that, though.
4) Sort of... it might not be "dead" until it turns back to (headless) flesh.
5) Objects are unaffected by critical hits.
Most of this is immaterial, though... the dragon can't recover naturally. For all intents and purposes, it's dead (more on this later).
Overpowered? Quite possibly. ^_^
That said... let them know they don't have to smash it up. Then, if they leave it behind, have a more powerful villain find it, restore it to flesh with magic, and ally with it for revenge on the PCS.
From my understanding of the spell, the dragon is now effectively an object, and you'd use those rules for determining hardness and object hitpoints.
What's rather ambiguous is that the spell only says the target tuns into a statue. We can assume from the name of the spell that the statue is made from stone. However....what kind of stone? Basalt? Granite? Pumice? Obsidian? Marble?
Unfortunately for the dragon, it failed a critical save against a powerful spell. Behold the power of random numbers!
I'm assuming you mean the spell Stone to Flesh. Yeah, it is a save or die, but really most spells like that are rather iffy unless the caster really optimizes their DC and ability to beat SR and/or makes sure to target only weak saves. I don't know what kind of dragon you used, but look at it's fort save. It should be massive. The fact the spell worked on it is a miracle for the PCs.
As for your other questions:
1. That's DM territory to an extent, but viable; mess up the shape to an extent that if someone returns it to flesh it just dies.
2. Stone has a hardness of 8.
3. As the creature is now an object made of stone it has 15 hp per inch of thickness. What you do with that is up to you as there is still some DM wiggle room, but really it is hardly relevant unless there is an enemy caster literally right there to undo it. There is no direct formula for damage dealt to object transferring back to the creature if it is fixed.
4. Here is the exact wording of Petrified:
"A petrified character has been turned to stone and is considered unconscious. If a petrified character cracks or breaks, but the broken pieces are joined with the body as he returns to flesh, he is unharmed. If the character's petrified body is incomplete when it returns to flesh, the body is likewise incomplete and there is some amount of permanent hit point loss and/or debilitation."
If the statue is cut up, as long as it is put back together before fixing the effect then the creature is fine, but lopping of its head then fixing it would be death.
5. Objects cannot be crit.
lopping of its head then fixing it would be death.
Why would you assume that? While the Dragon is petrified it's an object, and cannot die. Fix the object, and any Stone to Flesh spell should restore the Dragon in good health.
Just, you know... don't glue the head on backwards.
lopping of its head then fixing it would be death.Why would you assume that? While the Dragon is petrified it's an object, and cannot die. Fix the object, and any Stone to Flesh spell should restore the Dragon in good health.
Just, you know... don't glue the head on backwards.
By "fixing it" I meant "fixing the petrification with the head off" but that wasn't very clear upon rereading what I wrote.
in my last session as GM, one of my player turn to stone a dragon.
TS failed with 1 and succes to bypass SR and so 350 hp vanished in a second...
My questions are:
a petrified monster is a statue of stone in a way that stone shape could kill it??
has a hardness score?
how many hp have a petrified npg? same as before?
can a petrified dragon be killed with a slash of a adamantine sword that cut his head off?
can a petrified monster take critical hit from a weapon?it's a bit overpowered if so?
ty for response :-)
High-level casters one-shot enemies with save-or-die spells like flesh to stone.