Basilisk

[Oladahn]

Got a couple of questions about basilisks.

If a character fails their Fortitude save following a glance or gaze they suffer the first stages of petrification and are slowed 1 for one minute. If they get affected again and and fail their save they become fully petrified.

How long before the first stages of petrification are nullified? The text says the slowed effect lasts one minute, is this the length of time before the first stage is nullified?

Also I couldn't see any penalties or bonuses if the fortitude save is critically succeeded or failed.

[YuriP]

Basilisk petrification doesn't uses slowed numbers as stages like the Petrify spell does. It's stronger only needing that the target is just Slowed 1 by Petrifying Gaze/Glance before become petrified.

Due probably by some error, Petrifying Gaze doesn't give a time limit in Slowed 1 state but probably is the same 1 minute that Petrifying Glance does once the Slowed forever is a bit too much.

Once that a creature is already Slowed due Petrifying Gaze/Glance and fails again, it's now permanently petrified.

About critical success, critical failure and success effects. Once they aren't declared they simply don't exist yet Petrifying Glance has incapacitation trait making it one degree weaker vs higher level oponents (so a creature with higher level than a Basilisk will only have critical fail effect).

[NorrKnekten]

I believe Ron Lundeen had a clarification regarding either the basilisk or cockatrice, That the intended duration was 1 minute.

There were a few cases of earlier content or separate adventures where it seems like the writers forgot that certain conditions needs a duration in order to exist, Like the slowed condition in this scenario or the stupified condition from the Sand Wolf