I've searched the forums, and the internet at large, for any sort of whisper of hope for one of my characters. No luck heretofore.
My dilemma: At what point does the spell Black Tentacles relent and stop beating a "creature" to death? Naturally, if a (living/unliving/etc) creature is within the area of the spell, it gets grappled and damaged and so on. If that creature goes unconscious, i.e. limp and lifeless, do the tentacles continue to pummel the body? Taking that one step further, for the duration of the spell, do the tentacles just continue to decimate a corpse every round until they expire? How would that affect an already dead/dying creature just thrown into the tentacles?