If a dragon's holding you in its mouth, normal grapple rules would apply.
Sure but since grappling in no way interferes with the ability to cast spells, I still don’t see how this is relevant unless for some strange reason the player elects to cast a concentration spell instead of one of the many spells that would facilitate escaping the dragon’s mouth before it chews them to death in order to swallow them, as Acromos would prefer to live swallowing.
If a dragon's holding you in its mouth, normal grapple rules would apply.
Sure but since grappling in no way interferes with the ability to cast spells, I still don’t see how this is relevant unless for some strange reason the player elects to cast a concentration spell instead of one of the many spells that would facilitate escaping the dragon’s mouth before it chews them to death in order to swallow them, as Acromos would prefer to live swallowing.
I brought it up because mechanically, a dragon holding you in its mouth and chewing you is a grapple where it makes a bite attack every round. A dragon doesn't get to inflict free damage from chewing on a PC every round anymore than a PC would be allowed to get free damage by announcing that they're grappling an enemy and shoving a sword into that foe's guts that they're going to wiggle around every round.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
If you want to chew the wizard up before swallowing to better represent reality in your estimation, then there should likely be at least a couple rounds of the chewing—a dragon’s bite doesn’t do 60+ HP in one shot. The wizard should have quite a lot of different options in that case.
Hitpoints are an abstraction. If you put a human body in the teeth of ... not even a dragon, let's just say a great white shark ... it will munch you like cereal. It doesn't take a fraction of a second to go from hale and harty to random lumps of meat.
My point is that the rules for swallowing are inane - stupid beyond comprehension. That's how I feel about them. There is absolutely zero oblitation for anyone else to agree or feel the same way.
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Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
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If a dragon's holding you in its mouth, normal grapple rules would apply.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Sure but since grappling in no way interferes with the ability to cast spells, I still don’t see how this is relevant unless for some strange reason the player elects to cast a concentration spell instead of one of the many spells that would facilitate escaping the dragon’s mouth before it chews them to death in order to swallow them, as Acromos would prefer to live swallowing.
I brought it up because mechanically, a dragon holding you in its mouth and chewing you is a grapple where it makes a bite attack every round. A dragon doesn't get to inflict free damage from chewing on a PC every round anymore than a PC would be allowed to get free damage by announcing that they're grappling an enemy and shoving a sword into that foe's guts that they're going to wiggle around every round.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Hitpoints are an abstraction. If you put a human body in the teeth of ... not even a dragon, let's just say a great white shark ... it will munch you like cereal. It doesn't take a fraction of a second to go from hale and harty to random lumps of meat.
My point is that the rules for swallowing are inane - stupid beyond comprehension. That's how I feel about them. There is absolutely zero oblitation for anyone else to agree or feel the same way.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.