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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9228240" data-attributes="member: 7035894"><p>I don't think stomachs are like what you seem to be imagining. They're not a big open space, and they aren't designed to have complete living creatures, let alone ones covered with all kids of equipment and pointy stuff, magically appear inside of them. For example, a human stomach can rupture if you eat or drink too much - anything more than 3-4 litres. And that's assuming food/liquids that have been properly chewed (if solid) and ingested. I am very confident that if a living, armoured human suddenly appeared in the gut of an elephant, that elephant is dead. The person, too, unless someone cut them out.</p><p></p><p>Also, a giant snake's stomach would be completely different from a giant cave bear's. Snakes do not swallow live prey, and they take ages to gradually ingest and process meals. They are extremely vulnerable during this sloooow process. Basically, the polymorph would be broken while still in the snake's mouth. I can't imagine that would work out well. In the case of a huge bear, its stomach would be destroyed unless it was truly gargantuan.</p><p></p><p>That's hydrofluoric acid. Stomachs do not contain hydrofluoric acid.</p><p></p><p>That said, a human stomach could certainly dissolve a corpse....given enough time. Although our stomach acid is not battery acid strong, it's still pretty potent. But if someone actually materialized inside a stomach, suffocation would kill them far, far faster than the stomach acid would. Different animals have different strengths of stomach acid - a giant vulture would be your best bet if you wanted the strongest acid.</p><p></p><p>The crushing motion of the stomach on an undigested character with their equipment would also end <em>the stomach</em> quickly.</p><p></p><p>Your scale is way off. And if that mouse was wearing armour and weapons, I still don't like my chances. Or its. We'd both die, unless it had some mouse buddies to cut it out really quickly. If not, it would be dead very quickly, whereas I would likely die painfully over a period of days as my torn up guts necrotized. It would be a terrible way to go.</p><p></p><p>Look, you know this is a completely unrealistic scenario and would not actually work, but, hey, it's fantasy, and if you and your DM are happy with it, then that's all that matters. Have fun! I do think allowing it pretty obviously breaks the polymorph spell, which is already more than powerful enough.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 9228240, member: 7035894"] I don't think stomachs are like what you seem to be imagining. They're not a big open space, and they aren't designed to have complete living creatures, let alone ones covered with all kids of equipment and pointy stuff, magically appear inside of them. For example, a human stomach can rupture if you eat or drink too much - anything more than 3-4 litres. And that's assuming food/liquids that have been properly chewed (if solid) and ingested. I am very confident that if a living, armoured human suddenly appeared in the gut of an elephant, that elephant is dead. The person, too, unless someone cut them out. Also, a giant snake's stomach would be completely different from a giant cave bear's. Snakes do not swallow live prey, and they take ages to gradually ingest and process meals. They are extremely vulnerable during this sloooow process. Basically, the polymorph would be broken while still in the snake's mouth. I can't imagine that would work out well. In the case of a huge bear, its stomach would be destroyed unless it was truly gargantuan. That's hydrofluoric acid. Stomachs do not contain hydrofluoric acid. That said, a human stomach could certainly dissolve a corpse....given enough time. Although our stomach acid is not battery acid strong, it's still pretty potent. But if someone actually materialized inside a stomach, suffocation would kill them far, far faster than the stomach acid would. Different animals have different strengths of stomach acid - a giant vulture would be your best bet if you wanted the strongest acid. The crushing motion of the stomach on an undigested character with their equipment would also end [I]the stomach[/I] quickly. Your scale is way off. And if that mouse was wearing armour and weapons, I still don't like my chances. Or its. We'd both die, unless it had some mouse buddies to cut it out really quickly. If not, it would be dead very quickly, whereas I would likely die painfully over a period of days as my torn up guts necrotized. It would be a terrible way to go. Look, you know this is a completely unrealistic scenario and would not actually work, but, hey, it's fantasy, and if you and your DM are happy with it, then that's all that matters. Have fun! I do think allowing it pretty obviously breaks the polymorph spell, which is already more than powerful enough. [/QUOTE]
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