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

[Bauglir]

Considering it's swallowing people I think that's a fair enough assumption

Oh and if the glass WAS magically enchanted as a powerful enough weapon to hurt the dragon, then the dragon could not break it by swallowing it, since to sunder a weapon you need to use one of a greater +.

I love this game

 

[Madfox]

Dragons in 2 edition could eat and digest litterally anything including gems. I am not sure if they changed this in 3rd edition, but if this is still the case, I doubt a few shards of glass are going to pose such a threat. Personally, I would say that quafing a potion is a conscious action not unlike a spell trigger or spell completion of a wand or scroll. So a creature can quaff only one potion per round and then only when that creature realizes it is quafing a liquid and never as part of swalling whole a poor victim.

 

[Arthur Tealeaf]

Dragons in 2 edition could eat and digest litterally anything including gems. I am not sure if they changed this in 3rd edition, but if this is still the case, I doubt a few shards of glass are going to pose such a threat. Personally, I would say that quafing a potion is a conscious action not unlike a spell trigger or spell completion of a wand or scroll. So a creature can quaff only one potion per round and then only when that creature realizes it is quafing a liquid and never as part of swalling whole a poor victim.

From the SRD: "A character can carefully administer a potion to an unconscious creature as a full-round action, trickling the liquid down the creature's throat. Likewise, it takes a full-round action to apply an oil to an unconscious creature. "

Seems like you don't have to be conscious after all!

 

[Madfox]

Except that in the example of the SRD it is the one feeding the potion to the unconscious person is the one doing the conscious action. That person is activating the potion.

 

[Bauglir]

What if the person had already drunk their potion and the dragon chews em up?

Does it get the benefit of potions in their blood or gullet?

 

[Sejs]

Does it get the benefit of potions in their blood or gullet?

Adventurers would live in fear of the dreaded Mosquito Season + Potion of Fire Breath combination

 

[Fade]

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.

Hydrofluoric acid is the only acid I know of that will react with glass. Certainly nitric, sulfuric and hydrochloric don't, and they and the most powerful I know of below hydroflouric. Sufficiently strong alkalis will react with glass though (when doing an acid/base titration we do our best to have the acid in the burette so as not to damage it).

 

[Quickbeam]

If they are properly stowed, I'd say no effect as the PC is consumed. IMO, that would be similar to allowing the benefits of swallowing a character with a Ring of Invisibility or Cloak of Displacement.

If however, the potions are loosely carried and broken/quaffed upon chomping the PC to bits, then I'd use the random miscability effects mentioned above. Either way, funny stuff to ponder along with Immovable Rods, etc. .

 

[dave_o]

What book/edition are those potion mishap tables from?

I know I loves me the 2E Critical Hit charts.

They've lead to many fun, amputee characters.

 

[Gez]

Look a little harder at the description of dragons before saying they can't digest glass. These beasts are said to be able to feed on anything, even rock! (For the same reason, I doubt dragons produce much guano... If they assimilate anything, what could they waste ?)