Re: flesh-to-stone on a skeleton?

Marnok.com wrote:
"The Black Guardian" <blakgard@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1139828609.831571.305620@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Marnok.com wrote:

Would this have the effect of a stoneskin? I don't think it would immobilize
a skeleton, or do undead skeletons still have ligaments which would be
frozen when turned to stone? I always thought that the ligaments or whatever
had gone, and the body was held together by necromantic forces. I wonder if
perhaps, when the bone is turned to stone, if those necromantic energies
would fail (they are there to animate bones, not stones).

Skeletons don't typically have flesh (the entry states they "lack
flesh"), and per the Flesh to Bone spell, "Only creatures made of flesh
are affected by this spell." I, too, think the bodies are held together
by necromantic forces.

I recall a group of spells in either late-1st Edition or early-2nd
Edition that transmuted bone to all sorts of things. My personal
favourite was "Bone to Metal." IIRC, though, the bones had to be
transmuted before the skeleton was created, so the necromantic energies
probably would fail if transmuted afterwards. At any rate, Flesh to
Stone has no effect on a creature made of bones.



I would argue that bone is flesh; unless flesh-to-stone would turn a man into stone, but his bones remain, which I don't think is true. Come to think of it, a common phrase "flesh and blood" implies that blood isn't flesh, so, perhaps a statue would still bleed and complain of sore joints....



I refer you to the Animate Dead spell in the PHB (pg. 199):

"If a skeleton is made from a corpse, the flesh falls off the bones."
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