Freedom of movement doesn't stop it, and there was a recent calamity because of it.
Please, if freedom of movement stops petrification, it ought to stop beholder Petrification as well.
Dont beholders completely dispel the moment before they petrify you?
Quote from: BRESTON;256359Dont beholders completely dispel the moment before they petrify you?
That isn't the point, and it doesn't apply here. FoM should make you immune to any status mobilization effects.
I think FoM protects you from paralysis, slow, and entanglement style of effects, but petrification is flesh to stone. I don't think you can save yourself from it with FoM. I might be wrong, but I've always had the expression that this is intentional, by nwn mechanical standards.
Though if DM's think it should be otherwise, then it needs to be scripted and changed, but make no mistake. Petrification is not paralyzation type of effect, it overrides it.
Messing around with medusa is serious business. You won't just be protected from it's gaze with simple spells.
listed here (http://www.escapefromundeath.com/documentation/mechanics/changes/divine) Freedom grants immunity to petrification and is an intended change. That it does not is a bug.
My guess would be that the beholder hit you with the anti-magic ray which stripped freedom of movement and then struck with the petrification ray immediately after.
I think in this case it was actually a Medusa and not a Beholder that petrified the people in question, so as it was FoM didn't protect them from petrification.
When Breston mentioned Beholders, he was totally off topic and it had nothing to do with the discussion or bug mentioned.
FoM doesn't stop petrification. This is the bug. :)
I remember this bug back in efu:a too. Thinking it was the player of Saircrost that mentioned it last time, but could be mistaken.
Warning: Messing with Medusa may be harmful to your health.
Just doesn't seem right that FoM would stop Medusa.
It was not off topic, you cited beholders in your second statement.
I cited it, yes, but it was an example amongst others. I don't see how being dispelled of FoM then being petrified applies to the discussion though. If you have FoM up, you should be immune to beholder petrificiation. As when you have deathward up, you should be immune to that as well.
Even if it's not right or wrong, FoM has been written to protect from petrification in Efu changes. It should do so in that case.
The Return of the Kings is absolutely right. Since it has been meant to stop petrification, it should.