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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kaomera" data-source="post: 4440529" data-attributes="member: 38357">The only thing that makes the purple worm interesting (tactically) is swallow whole; or more specifically the tactics needed to avoid being swallowed. Aside from the fact that you should (IMO) be assuming that being bloodied is risky and a potential trigger for monster abilities (and being as it's really just one huge maw on the end of a big old stack of hps you might expect a purple worm to eat characters) there really needed to be some kind of info passed on to the players as to what's up in this fight. Aside from that the DM should have looked at the monster's stat block and realized that this wasn't going to be a good choice for your group. Or realized that a big sack of hit points with one trick isn't going to be that much fun... Even Dragons need cool terrain, etc. to make the fight fun all the way to the end.But on both sides mistakes happen. I'm sorry you had such a bad experience, from the way things sound the DM wasn't loving the situation either and he won't make that mistake again. With the benefits of hindsight I could say that if he was going to fudge to allow you to survive he should have gone ahead and let you escape (perhaps the worm forcefully vomits you up onto one of the other PCs?), but that doesn't really do you much good at this point. Hopefully you don't get swallowed again and therefore it won't come up.I'm sorry, but (personally) this just comes off as whining. If you really would end up sulking in a corner if your character was forced out of action, then I don't think I would really enjoy playing with you that much. I think you're more than likely exaggerating, but it's counterproductive to making your point. It's obvious that a lot of effort was made to keep the 4E version of swallow whole from being a save-or-die situation. It's unfortunate that your character ended up getting swallowed anyway. But that doesn't make the purple worm a monster that can't be used in a fun encounter. You've pointed out one of the potential problems with it, now it's up to each DM to decide what they feel is appropriate to do about it.</blockquote>

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