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<blockquote data-quote="Caliban" data-source="post: 724256" data-attributes="member: 284">Your skin is sensitive, soft, delicate thing.&nbsp; Your skin is also an organ.&nbsp;&nbsp; Does that mean that your skin is a vital organ?&nbsp;&nbsp; The stomach is a specialized sack of skin.&nbsp; It's no more vital than your skin.&nbsp;&nbsp; For normal creatures, puncturing the stomach would spill bile and acid onto the internal organs, causing a lot of extra damage.&nbsp; However, creatures with the swallow whole ability do not have this vulnerability.&nbsp; Their stomach is even less vulnerable.&nbsp; It automatically seals any holes punctured into it via muscular action, and doesn't spill acid into it's internal organs.&nbsp; &nbsp; So the stomach lining itself isn't a vital organ, at least not for creatures with Swallow Whole.&nbsp;&nbsp; Other vital organs are nearby, but they are concealed from you by stomach lining.&nbsp; You can't actually see them, and you can't cut a hole that will let you see them because the stomach lining will seal any hole you make. The most reasonable compromise ruling that I have seen is:&nbsp; If you want to sneak attack from within the stomach,&nbsp; it won't cut you a hole to escape from.&nbsp;&nbsp; To cut your way out of the stomach you&nbsp; have to cut through the side closest to the skin, away from any vital organs.&nbsp;&nbsp; The &quot;vital organs&quot; lay in the opposite direction.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can either try to cut yourself free, or soak up the damage and stab at it's internal organs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Caliban, post: 724256, member: 284"] Your skin is sensitive, soft, delicate thing. Your skin is also an organ. Does that mean that your skin is a vital organ? The stomach is a specialized sack of skin. It's no more vital than your skin. For normal creatures, puncturing the stomach would spill bile and acid onto the internal organs, causing a lot of extra damage. However, creatures with the swallow whole ability do not have this vulnerability. Their stomach is even less vulnerable. It automatically seals any holes punctured into it via muscular action, and doesn't spill acid into it's internal organs. So the stomach lining itself isn't a vital organ, at least not for creatures with Swallow Whole. Other vital organs are nearby, but they are concealed from you by stomach lining. You can't actually see them, and you can't cut a hole that will let you see them because the stomach lining will seal any hole you make. The most reasonable compromise ruling that I have seen is: If you want to sneak attack from within the stomach, it won't cut you a hole to escape from. To cut your way out of the stomach you have to cut through the side closest to the skin, away from any vital organs. The "vital organs" lay in the opposite direction. You can either try to cut yourself free, or soak up the damage and stab at it's internal organs. [/QUOTE]

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