Getting out of "swallow whole"

[Quasqueton]

Have you ever seen a character cut its way out of the belly of a "swallow whole" monster? Did it break your suspicion of disbelief to see someone emerge from a beast's abdomen and the beast not die from the wound? Have you ever seen it happen more than once with the same monster?

Quasqueton

 

[glass]

Have you ever seen a character cut its way out of the belly of a "swallow whole" monster? Did it break your suspicion of disbelief to see someone emerge from a beast's abdomen and the beast not die from the wound? Have you ever seen it happen more than once with the same monster?

Yes I have seen it. Yes, tt did seriously strain the suspension of disbelief.

I can't remeber who suggested it, but I have seen someone on these boards suggest changing 'swallow whole' to 'chew'. Keeping the same mechanics, but changing the flavour text. Works for me.


glass.

 

[Dingleberry]

Luckily, the only time I've seen it, the damage inflicted during the escape did kill the swallower (a dire shark), which made for a very cool scene - especially when the other sharks in the area immediately descended on the slain dire shark and the character in question emerged triumphantly from the growing cloud of blood.

 

[Turanil]

Getting out of "swallow whole"

It seemed to me that this title alone was enough to have the thread closed, independant from the actual content of the thread...

 

[diaglo]

Deep Throat is revealed.


Dim door


read the story hour in my sig.

we've had at least 2 PCs swallowed. one by a giant frog. another 2 by the same bulette

 

[Ranes]

Have you ever seen a character cut its way out of the belly of a "swallow whole" monster?

Yes and not too long ago, as it happens. The creature was a tendriculos. It wolfed down the party's dwarf fighter (who made his Fort save).

Did it break your suspicion of disbelief to see someone emerge from a beast's abdomen and the beast not die from the wound?

No. The creature was a tendriculos. Suspension of disbelief was already on holiday.

Have you ever seen it happen more than once with the same monster?

No. But if it did, I'd be tempted to rule that the subsequently swallowed creature could escape with a move action, unless the beastie that swallowed it was something even more unusual than a tendriculos. The gibbering mouther springs to mind.

 

[francisca]

Enlarge spell.


Wait. That didn't work. Just a size 44WWWWW boot sticking out of the Fiendish Dire Cave Bear's, um, plumbing.

 

[DonTadow]

Someone had a variant on here the swallow whole rule in which they changed it to more like chew so that hte person stays in the mouth of the beast and retains the believablity

 

[I'm A Banana]

Yeah, rather than "cut your way out," I've usually interpreted the damage just to mean that the creature vomits you back up. Unless you kill it in the blow, because ripping your way out of a dying creature *is* pretty sweet.

 

[osarusan]

With some monsters, it's not hard to believe that muscle force or something along those lines might hold the wound shut to prevent massive bloodloss after they PC has cut his way out of the monster's belly.

After all, if the monster has evolved to swallow large creatures whole, it certainly must have evolved some protection against this sort of damage.