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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 1816247" data-attributes="member: 1331">I've always ruled that the Instant Fortress will not expand unless placed on a surface solid enough to support its weight. That prevents the common cheap tricks of using it in the air above a foe's head, or inside its stomach. (This is the same principle that won't let you use summon monster to bury your foes under a summoned orca.)You can't teleport to a place unless you have seen it, or at least have a good description of it. So unless this PC had previously spent time in the innards of this particular Howling Dragon, with an active light source, teleport wouldn't work. (Or perhaps he'd end up in the guts of some other very surprised dragon.) Dimension door lets you specify by direction and distance, but that has problems too; note that there's very little open space in the interior of a monster. I'd require a DC 30 Knowledge(anatomy) or Knowledge(dragons) check, and failure would indicate that he beamed into a solid part of the body and got shunted out.The hole-in-a-bag explosion is among the oldest of cheap tricks, and unfortunately the rules as written don't offer much chance of escaping it. As a house rule, I allow anyone in range to make a Reflex save (DC 17) to avoid the vortex and stay on the current plane. That makes the hole-in-a-bag no more deadly than the plane shift spell itself, except that it's an area effect and ignores SR.Even if the dragon is successfully zapped to the Astral, that's hardly a death sentence, and it does have a good chance of finding its own way home. Finding a particular color pool (a naturally occurring portal) requires only a matter of hours, so the dragon could easily get back to its home plane before encountering anything tough enough to be a threat. The portal may not drop it anywhere near the place from which it left, but that's why dragons have high flight speeds.</blockquote>

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