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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 2288242" data-attributes="member: 4937">I have a probably well deserved reputation as a harsh DM.  Looking over your responces, I'm reminded of that"I would rule that anything that has been swallowed has effectively become part of the creature for the purposes of spell effects.  Therefore, they are carried back to the plane from which the creature was summoned, still within the belly of the best.The same thing.The thing (and everything) inside them shapechanges right along with them, just as anything else in their digestive tract would.  This may actually result in the person or item becoming magically trapped inside the body of the shapechanger, in that it is there but in a form which renders it inaccessible.  A Wish or Freedom spell may be necessary to recover the object.  However, if the thing swallowed is itself a natural shapechanger, changing into a form otherwise not intended to contain an object before that shapechanger is digested or otherwise neutralized is potentially fatal.  If the swallowed shapechanger changes to a form which the new form could not contain, then it bursts out of the containing shapechanger, dropping the containing shapchanger to 0 hitpoints and forcing the containing shapechanger to make DC 30 fortitude save or die immediately.The above decisions are snap decisions based on the situation. I've not tested them.  They are made not just out of a desire to protect my reputation, but because I prefer them for dramatic reasons.  If the PC's summon up a fiendish purple worm (or whatever), when the thing swallows the bad guy, normally that's a cinematically dramatic ending and I want it to be over.  Cut.  Print it.  Congradulations.  Nice days work.  I do not want the fiendish purple worm to disappear and leave behind the bad guy in its place.  An observer watching the movie isn't going to understand that.  It's just not emotionally satisfying for anyone involved - the PC's, me, or 'the audience'.   Plus, the above answers are better story hooks.  They are wonderfully strange answers that create crazy situations.</blockquote>

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