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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 7263613" data-attributes="member: 71699">Huh? I'm not talking about the OP. I'm addressing your post where you say you would call out "adversarial DMing" if someone didn't run it the way you think they should. Added to which, the way you think it should be run doesn't reflect the words used in the creature stat block and relevant spell.Okay, probably you meant it lightly and I got heated up about nothing. I play and DM and I know that as a DM I put in twice the work (and expenditure) of my players. I'm there to have fun, as much as they are, and I value imposing constraints because that's what makes the game interesting. Think of the alternativePlayer "I win"DM "Okay"The DM has to be willing to say "No, that doesn't work. Not even on a natural 20." And of course that requires their players to concede that privilege and burden to them. When I looked at the RAW, Sphere becomes the size of the creature inside it: if you somehow get a colossal creature inside it, then it should become colossal. That might help the players, or it might hinder them. The worm is ravenous, so it might eat something hurled at it, or it might do something else. It has to take an action to first bite something it wants to swallow, so maybe it wouldn't bother to bite a frog when there are larger, tastier creatures in front of it (who are also perhaps threatening and hurting it).</blockquote>