Statue Form should be Petrify Immune


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Halls Hopper

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Post Sunday, 3rd July 2011, 16:24

Statue Form should be Petrify Immune

Hi!

Just a small thing, but it seems kind of silly:

Statue Form:
"You turn into a living statue of rough stone"
Then a basilisk gazes at me:
"You have turned to stone"

So i am even stonier after a basilisk looks at me? ;)

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Post Sunday, 3rd July 2011, 17:45

Re: Statue Form should be Petrify Immune

Seconded, petrify isn't a much used attack anyway, so it's not like it would buff statue form that much, but would make sense.
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Dungeon Master

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Post Sunday, 3rd July 2011, 18:05

Re: Statue Form should be Petrify Immune

It already is petrify-immune, in theory.

However, the petrification beam conveniently forgets to actually check whether the player has petrify resistance or not, oops. Should be fixed now, thanks for spotting it.
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Blades Runner

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Post Sunday, 3rd July 2011, 18:16

Re: Statue Form should be Petrify Immune

it also affects the undead (ghouls, at least), even though they cannot cast stoneskin, statue form, and the like. it may be an oversight or intentional, just mentioning it.
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Post Sunday, 3rd July 2011, 18:55

Re: Statue Form should be Petrify Immune

Thanks for sorting it Marvin!!
I agree that it is a bit weird that undead can get petrified, perhaps change the flavour if it's going to be kept?
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Temple Termagant

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Post Sunday, 3rd July 2011, 20:01

Re: Statue Form should be Petrify Immune

Perhaps like this: The fact that the spell/curse sustaining the will inside the corpse only affects flesh, however rotten. It will not purposefully change the flesh to stone, and when an external force does it, it takes time for the spell/curse to reassert itself and change the stone back into flesh.

Keeps undead self-stone free and explains away why they get petrified. For a different reason, but same effect as living characters.

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