So, if a dragon swallows someone carrying a lot of potions....

[Arthur Tealeaf]

Uh, you'd think that if he shattered a potion vial wither or not he got the effects of the potion would be the least of the dragon's worries.


Glass or pottery shards tend to do really unpleasant things to the inside of an esophagous.

Wouldn't you think a dragon would be tough enough to ignore that? Or at least take only a feeble amount of damage from it...

Anyways, if the shattered potion was a healing one, wouldn't the wounds be healed at once?

 

[Gez]

Heh, 2nd ed had a quick remedy for this question.. aah the old potion miscability tables. Both a blessing -and- a curse.

This rule disappeared from 3e because there is a massive paradigm shift. Potions are no longer alchemical substances, they are now spells stored in a liquid.

So, drinking several potions has the same effect as receiving several spells.

Of course, you could adapt these old tables to any instance of when several magic effects apply on the same character... Wearing magical gear and asking for buff would become dangerous...

 

[Sejs]

Wouldn't you think a dragon would be tough enough to ignore that? Or at least take only a feeble amount of damage from it...

Nope, indeed I do not. Size has nothing to do with it, it still remains sharp glass shards on soft tissue and there's no real way to get it out once you've swallowed it. Even trying to hwarf it back up would still only worsen the situation. That dragon's going to be drowning in his own blood in short order.

Anyways, if the shattered potion was a healing one, wouldn't the wounds be healed at once?

Yes and no. D&D doesn't use a speciffic-injury healing system, but it really would make sense to have a healing potion close the most immdiatle wounds to the substance. That's cool by me - however.. just because the damage is healed by the one healing jolt of the potion doesn't get the shards out.. which would leave the dragon hosed, as above.

This rule disappeared from 3e because there is a massive paradigm shift. Potions are no longer alchemical substances, they are now spells stored in a liquid.

So, drinking several potions has the same effect as receiving several spells.

Of course, you could adapt these old tables to any instance of when several magic effects apply on the same character... Wearing magical gear and asking for buff would become dangerous...

True, heh. Nah, I don't really miss the tables such that I'd want them back. They easily created as many (if not more) annoying situations than they solved. Given a choice between the two I much prefer the flexability of the 3rd ed Spells In A Bottle over 2nd ed's Internal Explosions and Deadly Poison Gas Clouds.

^_^

 

[Arthur Tealeaf]

Yes, but isn't dragon tissue a bit tougher than for example human tissue? Also, in proportion, aren't those shards kind of tiny for a Great Wyrm...?

And I just thought of something! Dragons like to eat knights... Knights wear armor and carry swords! Ouch...

 

[Gez]

Yes, but isn't dragon tissue a bit tougher than for example human tissue? Also, in proportion, aren't those shards kind of tiny for a Great Wyrm...?

And I just thought of something! Dragons like to eat knights... Knights wear armor and carry swords! Ouch...

/Me tries to resist posting pictures of dragons with can-openers...

/Me succeeds thanks to lazyness.

 

[Arthur Tealeaf]

/Me tries to resist posting pictures of dragons with can-openers...

/Me succeeds thanks to lazyness.

I've seen a pic like that once

 

[Sejs]

Heh, I used to have a little comic on my computer where the main picture was of two dragons, a big bucket, a pile of discarded platemail and a crab cracker. Sadly it was one of the things pruned when my hard drive was running low on space and I had to make room.

 

[Blood Jester]

Nothing would happen...
Acid doesn't dissolve glass. Thus, the potions never "get loose" in the dragon's system to begin with. So the dragon never actually ingests the potions and is unaffected by them - in the same way someone smuggling drugs in a balloon isn't affected by the drugs when he swallows them inside the balloon (for example)...

--The Sigil

Incorrect sir:

Acid is commonly used to etch glass as a matter of fact. A weak acid won't dissolve glass (in a reasonable time-frame). But there is a reason you don't see bottles of, say, hydrogen flouride sitting around your chemistry classroom. And if there is a stronger acid than (mythical) dragon bile, I say no thank you.

 

[Bauglir]

Unless the glass is magically enchanted glass it won't penetrate the dragon's dr, so it won't do any damage.

 

[Darkness]

Unless the glass is magically enchanted glass it won't penetrate the dragon's dr, so it won't do any damage.

Good point...

(Assuming the dragon is old enough to have DR, of course.)