Question in title.
I had some players try to circumvent a mirror-labyrinth with arcane eye. There was an advanced, giant, half-fiend basalisk inside.
After a few long minutes of staring into the crystals atop his staff, the wizard cried out "a basalisk!" and turned to stone. His allies stared at the statue that was once their ally, and then, as one, at the cold, gleaming entrance to the maze.
--I think it works with arcane eye, given the spell's specific descriptor. But no, not automatically on all divinations with visual elements. The range between the gaze-er and the gaze-ee's sensor is the key.
A scrying spell not so much.... but a scrying item on the other hand.
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A gaze special attack takes effect when foes look at the attacking creature’s eyes. The attack can have any sort of effect; petrification, death, and charm are common. The typical range is 30 feet, but check the creature’s entry for details.
From Scrying: You can observe a creature at any distance.
If there was specific verbiage saying the sensor appears right next to the creature, then I'd say yes, stoned wizard, but most likely the wizard would be safe.
(The medusa didn't have a specific range on its gaze, so I presume it's the default 30 feet.)
Actually, there is such verbiage:
If the save fails, you can see and hear the subject and its surroundings (approximately 10 feet in all directions of the subject).
If you see only 10' around the creature, your sensor can't be further away from it than 10'.
That notwithstanding, I agree with pad300.
Given you can't cast flesh to stone (or anything else like that) through the scrying spell, I see no reason that such an effect would travel back through the link... so, no.
Only if she's under the shower or taking a bath!
You can observe fire through the Scrying spell without being burned, so I doubt her gaze attack carries through.
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A gaze special attack takes effect when foes look at the attacking creature’s eyes.If the Medusa does not detect the Scrying, she cannot see the creature's eyes, and so cannot look at them.
If the Medusa does detect the Scrying, she sees the Scrying Sensor, not the creature's eyes, and so cannot look at them.
In neither case can the Medusa use her Gaze Attack on someone Scrying on her.
It doesn't matter. The gaze attack happens when you look at the medusa eyes, there is no need for her to see you.
This attack takes effect when foes look at the attacking creature’s eyes.
Attacking creature = Medusa, Foe = the PC, so:
This attack takes effect when the PC look at the Medusa’s eyes.Furthermore:
Each opponent within range of a gaze attack must attempt a saving throw each round at the beginning of her turn in the initiative order. Only looking directly at a creature with a gaze attack leaves an opponent vulnerable.
It is a passive attack that forces the PC to save on his turn.
What matters is the range and if the gaze can affect someone through a scrying spell.
For me the actual distance between the caster and the medusa is what matters, so, barring spying what is on the other side of a wall or similar situations, the caster is generally well beyond the range of the gaze.
Does literally anything else go both ways through your typical Scrying spell?
Only looking directly at a creature with a gaze attack leaves an opponent vulnerable.
Scrying is about as indirect as it gets.