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<blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 6587776" data-attributes="member: 6677017"><p>A kraken ate one of my player's character's today. We then had to deal with the oddity that being swallowed by monsters for some odd reason imposes the blinded condition. I just told him I want to go with the rule for tonight (it was a one-shot and I didn't really want to nerf the kraken as they were clearly (to me) winning anyway*), but I'd think about it later.</p><p></p><p>So. It's weird. I mean, I didn't have a problem fluffing being knocked prone in the water as being thrown off balance, but auto-blindness due to swallowing seems a bit of a stretch. The character was wearing a <em>gem of brightness</em> on her wrist and the only way I can think of blindness working is if you imagine her being squished between tissues with no room to move. Since she had a <em>freedom of movement</em> effect on her, she wasn't even restrained so she could just move around. But even if she couldn't...the kraken is ginormous. It seems much more interesting to imagine being in a fairly large area inside of the sea monster, than wedged into an intestine.</p><p></p><p>Mechanically though, blindness prevents you from having advantage on attacks, which is a pretty good thing for a swallowed character in my opinion.</p><p></p><p>I like how much "bite" the condition gives the attack, I just have a hard time justifying the nature of the condition.</p><p></p><p>Any thoughts?</p><p></p><p>* They won; all PCs survived.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sword of Spirit, post: 6587776, member: 6677017"] A kraken ate one of my player's character's today. We then had to deal with the oddity that being swallowed by monsters for some odd reason imposes the blinded condition. I just told him I want to go with the rule for tonight (it was a one-shot and I didn't really want to nerf the kraken as they were clearly (to me) winning anyway*), but I'd think about it later. So. It's weird. I mean, I didn't have a problem fluffing being knocked prone in the water as being thrown off balance, but auto-blindness due to swallowing seems a bit of a stretch. The character was wearing a [I]gem of brightness[/I] on her wrist and the only way I can think of blindness working is if you imagine her being squished between tissues with no room to move. Since she had a [I]freedom of movement[/I] effect on her, she wasn't even restrained so she could just move around. But even if she couldn't...the kraken is ginormous. It seems much more interesting to imagine being in a fairly large area inside of the sea monster, than wedged into an intestine. Mechanically though, blindness prevents you from having advantage on attacks, which is a pretty good thing for a swallowed character in my opinion. I like how much "bite" the condition gives the attack, I just have a hard time justifying the nature of the condition. Any thoughts? * They won; all PCs survived. [/QUOTE]
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