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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordSkull" data-source="post: 2321463" data-attributes="member: 31783"><p>Regeneration treats all but the specials (usually acid and fire) as nonlethal. This does not mean that cuts are not made. With a trolls regen you cut it and a wound opens blood spills it feels pain but the wound closes so quickly and the skin reknits it is as if the damage didn't really happen as far as a death sense goes. Thus cutting your way out is possible and you would have to work pretty quick as the regen will close the HOLE (not whole <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />) to a degree as you cut. Still technically NON lethal damage (Unless you allow that the stomach acid does more perm damage. As we all know stomachs are usually have an acid resistant lining to prevent damage to the being that posesses the stomach acid.) So in your example the dragon could claw & bite its way out. The Hole will close up behind it. Also in the descripptions of some of the swallower monsters w/o Regen they say that the muscles close the Hole after the person has escaped and thus any new creatures swallowed need to start over. In the case of NON regens could go either way as to damage from the inside out. I lean more toward the side of actual damage being dealt. Remember MOST of the swallowers have low int. They see people as FOOD and food doesn't cut its way out so would not think twice about swallowing. A Dragon on the other hand would be less likely to Swallow Whole possibly just for this reason. I can reccognize the dangers in swallowing a steel clad warrior. Damage reduction is another matter. Considering it is usually a result of the toughness of a creatures hide/skin/armor/flexability may not apply inside. I guess it would depend on what grants it the DR. For example a Werewolf (lets pretend it can swallow whole) would still require Silver or magic to bypass the DR. That pretty much how I would run it and my interpretations of the rules.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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