Carving with Disintigrate [Archive] - Wizards Community

Carving with Disintigrate [Archive] - Wizards Community

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TheKeyofE
10-04-07, 10:47 PM Could you combine a Craft (Sculpting or Stonecutting) with casting Disintigrate to make big rock carvings (a la Mount Rushmore)?
Harbin_Dunewalker
10-04-07, 11:07 PM I'm not sure if a normal Disintigrate would work, but the Disintegration Finesse feat from Lords of Madness explicitly allows this, and the only prerequisites are Dex 13 and the "ability to cast disintegrate as a spell or use it as a spell-like or supernatural ability," so you don't even have to be a beholder (the feat is originally in the Beholder Feats section of the book).
wizardguy2003
10-04-07, 11:20 PM Could you combine a Craft (Sculpting or Stonecutting) with casting Disintigrate to make big rock carvings (a la Mount Rushmore)?

No, a Disintigrate effect destroys a slain creature, an entire object, or a 10' cube of non-living matter. As was previously stated, there is a feat however that overrides this.
ScipioX
10-05-07, 03:57 AM You can certainly still sculpt with disintegrate. You just have to use a large enough scale. It works the same way as making a picture out of post it notes, except on a 10' block scale, instead of a 2 inch post it note scale.
TheKeyofE
10-05-07, 09:36 AM Basically, what I was asking is thus: disintigrate destroys a 10' cube of nonliving matter. Would it be possible to shape that 1000 cubic feet any which-way you wanted, rather than being confined to a boring 10'x10'x10' cube?

The answer is yes but, as Harbin said, only with the Disintigration Finesse feat. Thanks for that, btw. I had only glanced through Lords of Madness before you pointed that out.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
TheKeyofE 10-04-07, 10:47 PM	Could you combine a Craft (Sculpting or Stonecutting) with casting Disintigrate to make big rock carvings (a la Mount Rushmore)?
Harbin_Dunewalker 10-04-07, 11:07 PM	I'm not sure if a normal Disintigrate would work, but the Disintegration Finesse feat from Lords of Madness explicitly allows this, and the only prerequisites are Dex 13 and the "ability to cast disintegrate as a spell or use it as a spell-like or supernatural ability," so you don't even have to be a beholder (the feat is originally in the Beholder Feats section of the book).
wizardguy2003 10-04-07, 11:20 PM	Could you combine a Craft (Sculpting or Stonecutting) with casting Disintigrate to make big rock carvings (a la Mount Rushmore)? No, a Disintigrate effect destroys a slain creature, an entire object, or a 10' cube of non-living matter. As was previously stated, there is a feat however that overrides this.
ScipioX 10-05-07, 03:57 AM	You can certainly still sculpt with disintegrate. You just have to use a large enough scale. It works the same way as making a picture out of post it notes, except on a 10' block scale, instead of a 2 inch post it note scale.
TheKeyofE 10-05-07, 09:36 AM	Basically, what I was asking is thus: disintigrate destroys a 10' cube of nonliving matter. Would it be possible to shape that 1000 cubic feet any which-way you wanted, rather than being confined to a boring 10'x10'x10' cube? The answer is yes but, as Harbin said, only with the Disintigration Finesse feat. Thanks for that, btw. I had only glanced through Lords of Madness before you pointed that out.