The classic way to escape petrification is through the Stone to Flesh spell available on most curative traditions' spell list. Aside from that, being petrified is a sort of 'soft death', where you're not really dead but you're still out of the game until/unless you get the cure. The monster you're talking about I think is one of the lowest level monsters that can inflict petrification, which is probably why your petrification is non-permanent and offers a daily save. There might be an elixir or magic item that can cure petrification too but as far as i know it's only the Stone to Flesh spell.
Stand there trying adamantly to avoid getting Bob Dylan's now all to relevant earworm cycling through your head. :-P
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Sounds like you encountered a basilisk.
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I don't want to spoil things too much, but that's not a basilisk. :)
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It's a chicken! Some ugly chickens can sometimes petrify some creatures! :D
It's a chicken! Some ugly chickens can sometimes petrify some creatures! :D
Pretty rare, but oddly enough it's true! Sometimes an ugly chicken just up and turns someone to stone.
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Plot twist: You are not petrified. Just Stoned.
Do you have the time to listen to me whine?
About failing three saving throws all at once.I am one of those newly transmuted fools,
Calcified to the bone, no doubt about it.
Sometimes I have to turn in my sheet.
Sometimes a basilisk kills me.
It all keeps adding up, I'll never level up
Am I just petrified, or am I just stoned?
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The petrifying chicken lizard has a known error--no listed duration on the petrification.
Developer Ron Lundeen came out and clarified how it should work a while back. [SOURCE LINK]
The intent is that, if the creature isn’t petrified, the slowed condition ends once 1 minute passes without the creature failing a saving throw against calcification. Please use that!I have a few questions about this cockatrice encounter-- first of all, there's no duration to the slowed effect the cockatrice puts on people, which feels like an an oversight? Are we treating it as though the character has been petrified, and so must wait 24 hours before he can attempt at DC 20 Fortitude check to reduce the slowed status by 1?
If so this seems very tedious -- basically forcing the party to stop investigating for a few days so that Patricia get a good enough roll to play the game properly. DC20 can be a high check for level 1 players, and it's very easy to get slowed 1 or even 2 from the encounter. I don't mind that it's hard -- but as written it feels _unfun_.
Or is this just a sort of typo, and the slowed shouldn't last more than, say, 10 minutes. What's the intent, here?
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No Green Day fans? No one? Bueler?
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It's a chicken! Some ugly chickens can sometimes petrify some creatures! :DBaah, okay, I forgot the name of the other. Which I obviously recall now, but I guess I won't mention it either. Guess I shouldn't post when I'm dead tired but unable to sleep.
Ravingdork's comment already gave away that the ugly dinosaur-chicken is a cockatrice, creature 3, rather than a basilisk, creature 5. A cockatrice is a mythological creature that in European folklore comes from an egg laid by a rooster (male roosters don't lay eggs) and sat upon by a toad, but in Pathfinder is a species of beast.
Wikipedia reports. "A cockatrice is also mentioned in Romeo and Juliet, in Act 3, scene 2 line 47, by Juliet.
Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but 'Ay,'
And that bare vowel 'I' shall poison more
Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice."
Recall Knowledge about a cockatrice is a DC 18 Arcana or Nature check. The practicality of Recall Knowledge varies greatly from GM to GM, because Paizo's description of it is that a single check gives only a bit of information, when really, most PCs need more than one bit of information, like in this case. Many GMs, including myself, instead give a useful amount of information. Lorkan's party at this time should have everyone making Recall Knowledge checks about the cure for cockatrice pertification. And if that fails, they should go to the nearest town and ask the most scholarly people there.
Experienced adventurers would have pulled back and started making Recall Knowledge checks the moment one party member became slowed by the cockatrice's calcification. Very experienced adventurers would have spread training in Arcana, Occultism, Nature, Religion, and Society among the party members and made Recall Knowledge checks in the first round that they spotted the weird creature.
The missing information here--and Lorkan's character does not know this--is, "Every 24 hours after it was petrified, the victim can attempt a DC 20 Fortitude save to recover. On a success, it becomes flesh again, but is slowed 1 for the next 24 hours. On a critical success, the creature recovers and isn’t slowed. On a failure, the creature remains petrified, but can try again in 24 hours. On a critical failure, the petrification is permanent, and the creature can’t attempt any more saves." Even a 1st-level character with Constitution 10 will have a +3 to Fortitude, so rolling a 17, 18, 19, or 20 on a d20, a 20% chance, will result in recovery. Most PCs will have a better bonus and better chance than that.
Unfortunately, rolling a natural 1 before rolling the recovery numbers will result in permanent petrification that can be fixed only by a 6th-level Stone to Flesh spell cast by a 11th-level divine or primal caster or a 12th-level greater Salve of Antiparalysis that costs 325 gp. For comparison, a +1 striking longsword costs only 100 gp. These cures are out of reach of a low-level party, unless the GM has mercy on them and a friendly 11th-level wandering druid just happens by to cure the petrified person for free.
The basilisk has the property that coating the petrified person in basilisk blood will restore the person, but the cockatrice calcification says no such thing. Maybe basiisk blood will work on someone petrified by a cockatrice, but that would be GM fiat.
My players recently went through an adventure where at 14th level their characters faced a 17th-level ghost medusa who could still petrify people despite being undead and incorporeal. I had them pass through a monster ranch on the way, which raised basilisks, rosethorn goats, and snapping turtles. The ranch made a salve from basilisk blood and turtle fat that could cure pertrification and gave two vials to the party as a reward for the service the party did for them. I wanted the party to be prepared in case their druid ended up petrified. Turtle oil, as I named it, would be a 5th-level consumable costing only 30 gp.
It's a chicken! Some ugly chickens can sometimes petrify some creatures! :D
It's a giant chicken! With levels in wizard apparently to go with his ranks in Disguise.
'You're not a man, you're a chicken, Boo ... '
Well I don't really know if we can call a small creature like a cockatrice as "giant chicken". Specially today when we have some production focused chickens that can archieve 3 feet and 30 pounds when full growth.
At last our chickens don't turn people into stone... yet