Stone to Flesh clarifications


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If a statue is targeted with this spell it turns into "inert flesh." How do you determine what this flesh is? GM fiat? Roll on the reincarnation table to determine its race? Is it actually feasible to use polymorph any object to create life using a fleshed statute?


Inert flesh means it's like a sculpture made of meat rather than an actual body IMO. Whether that meat is more like beef or pork or chicken isn't really covered anywhere.


avr wrote:
Inert flesh means it's like a sculpture made of meat rather than an actual body IMO. Whether that meat is more like beef or pork or chicken isn't really covered anywhere.

Sorry, I had meant what does the flesh or meat of the statue count as. As in what creature. I figured it wouldn't be covered but stranger things have been commented on by the devs and I was wondering if any of them had in the past or if there was any consensus on the forums or just interesting ideas to determine the flesh's origin.


Not covered anywhere. If I had no reason for any particular kind I might default to the same as the spellcaster.


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It's not a creature. it's a blob of meat that is no longer able to support its own weight so it collapses into a mess on the floor.

Enjoy the BBQ


Lady Asharah wrote:

It's not a creature. it's a blob of meat that is no longer able to support its own weight so it collapses into a mess on the floor.

Enjoy the BBQ

Interesting way to produce cheap meat and or fertilizer. Still if it is meat, there is no such thing as "generic" meat. All meat comes from a living thing. Though I suppose you could just say that this flesh is made up of unique "stone flesh."


There's no such thing as a bralani azata, either, but fortunately this is Pathfinder RPG. You get unspecified flesh. Work with your GM if you want something specific, but it's likely to be more or less homogenous tissue rather than a fully formed organism--think a statue made of skin, or liver, or cardiac tissue, or intestinal wall, rather than a dead body with all of these things in the right place.

Edit: I always imagine it as early vat-grown meat--tissue grown in a certain pattern (e.g., striated) but without any larger structure. Wibbly-wobbly and impossible to animate short of animate object, which would be . . . hilarious?


I'd picture it as the first stages of lab grown meat.

Grey, tasteless, generally unappetizing in any fashion.

There's a lot that goes into flavor of meat, a lot of chemicals and hormones that circulate through a body. Statue has none of those so any meat transmuted out of one would reflect that.


Stone that gets turned into Flesh wouldn't produce edible meat in the slightest. Edible Flesh and Meat require oxygen and nutrients from blood circulation, and stone wouldn't have that. It would be like eating cardboard, and if you ate this for any length of time, I'd expect your internal organs would start shutting down from poisoning. You'd be better off starving than eating that.

Ever see the documentary "Super Size Me" with the guy that ate nothing but McDonalds for 30 days? His doctor stopped him 21 days into the experiment because his organs were failing, because that food is essentially warmed up garbage. Jesus fasted for 40 days in the desert and his organs didn't shut down, and other people have fasted for longer than 21 days without organ failure too.

As far as the OP's question and creating life? I agree with Lady Asharah, that thing has no skeletal structure and it would turn into a lifeless blob of fouler-than-troll-smelling dead flesh.


On the whole "tasteless non nutritious meat because came from stone". Stone don't have most of the required elements to form biological matter anyway! So... magic? The way this meat is treated is totally GM fiats.

There are some monsters don't have bones anyway (Example: Slimes anyone?) or that would no be able to "work" with our law of physics, so an animated golem made out of only flesh? Why not? Magic!

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