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Message: <blockquote data-quote="triqui" data-source="post: 5885139" data-attributes="member: 57948">Sure, you can. That's what happens if he fails. But as the Tyrannosaurus Rex has the "grab" ability and the "swallow whole" ability, you didn't. He BITED you, for sure, because you are grabbed (and swallowed next round). Same goes with a dragon that snatch you in his jaws.So your character can, and routinarelly do, survive the 4d6+18 or whatever damage a Tyrannosaurus Rex bites do. Your character *should die* to a 10' jaw closing on them with a 5000 pound force. Actually, being human sized, he should be cut by half. Yet he didn't.In your implementation of the game, where the 4d6+18 from the T.Rex should "kill you, period", fighting with T.Rexes (or dragons) is pretty much impossible. Characters die on first hit. Not very heroic.I could say the same with a 15' giant hitting you with a maul that weights 2000lb. Or a 2000lb axe, for that matter.That you selectivelly blind yourself so falling in lava *breaks your inmersion* but being completelly surrounded by a dragon's firebreath (arguabily hotter than lava) because you failed your save, or that falling from 100' should mean death, but being hit with a 2000lb maul by a creature that has enough stregth to lift a truck shouldn't, does not make it any more believable. It just makes you selectively blind.</blockquote>