stone shape

[Braininthejar]

Just making sure... the description of stone shape mentions creating trap doors and reshaping existing doors. That means it not only affects worked stone but also can affect a small portion of an object larger than the spell effect permits?

I am asking because SC includes a Greater Stone Shape, affecting up to 10 cubic feet per level. Does that mean a druid can just walk up to the villain's fortress and start moving around the load-bearing walls?

[littha]

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/stoneShape.htm

It says nothing about trap doors or reshaping existing doors (though you could do that anyway)

[Braininthejar]

I used the version from 3.5 core. Anyway, thank you. Now I just need a good way of measuring the volume that can be affected ( I am accustomed to thinking in metric)

[kitep]

The version in the book does indeed mention these things.

You can form an existing piece of stone
into any shape that suits your purpose. For
example, you can make a stone weapon, a
special trapdoor, or a crude idol. Stone shape
also permits you to reshape a stone door to
make an exit where one didn’t exist or to
seal a door shut. While it’s possible to
make crude coffers, doors, and so forth
with stone shape, fine detail isn’t possible.
There is a 30% chance that any shape
including moving parts simply doesn’t
work.

As for affecting a small part of a larger object, I don't think RAW allows it, though we've always done it in our games.  But then, we never tried to remove supporting walls, we would just put a hole in the wall to allow escape/entrance.