At the end of our last gaming session my character was fighting a Gorgon in a pool of chest height water.
I had the terrible misfortune of being knocked down and then petrified (turned to stone)
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If it can be undone, then you are no longer a statue (a thing) and are once again someone who breathes.
While petrified you cannot drown. You can only drown (pretty much by definition!) when you’re alive, and stone is not alive.
If you drown after you’re restored from petrification, you’re alive and drowning. You’re no longer petrified.
So timeline:
I get petrified.
I fall as a statue into the water.
I stay there for a thousand years.
Someone finds me and reverses the petrification.
If my statue-lungs are filled with water, I start drowning after #4. If they’re not (let’s say I get drained first), I don’t start drowning. You cannot drown a petrified character. The drowning happens to the living character iff said character has water in their lungs upon recovery.
If it can be undone, then you are no longer a statue (a thing) and are once again someone who breathes.
While petrified you cannot drown. You can only drown (pretty much by definition!) when you’re alive, and stone is not alive.
If you drown after you’re restored from petrification, you’re alive and drowning. You’re no longer petrified.
So timeline:
If my statue-lungs are filled with water, I start drowning after #4. If they’re not (let’s say I get drained first), I don’t start drowning. You cannot drown a petrified character. The drowning happens to the living character iff said character has water in their lungs upon recovery.
Yes, I agree. That’s what I meant to say, too.👍