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Being swallowed causes a creature to take damage each round. The amount and type of damage varies and is given in the creature’s Statistics.
Say I have a giant frog animal companion.
What damage does his swallow whole deal?Or say I'm creating my own monster.
How do I work out the damage? What guideline should I use?
Say I'm creating a gargantuan monster that has an animal companion counterpart (like the roc), and said monster is able to swallow whole. Do I just have the 7th-druid-level animal companion deal 5d6 damage?
This seems a bit vague. Am I missing something?
Well, I looked at the giant toad bestiary entry, and his swallow whole damage is one dice size smaller then his normal bite attack.
Seems like a reasonable guideline.
look up several different monsters with the swallow whole attack and see if there seems to be some sort of pattern to how the damage is figured.
purple worm... same damage dice as the bite, 1.5x strength bonus
Remorhaz... 1 dice less than the bite, 1.5X strength bonus
Sea Serpent... same damage dice as the bite, 1.5x strength bonus
Tarrasque... much different damage dice than bite (6d6 vs 4d8), 1.5 times strength bonus
Dire Crocodile... same damage dice as the bite, 1.0x strength bonus
Tyrannosaurus... much different damage dice than bite (2d8 vs 4d6), 1.0 times strength bonus
It appears that swallow whole damage doesn't follow a particular formula, but that more often then not it adds 1.5x strength bonus to it... if you are creating your own new monster then you can set it to what ever you want, but I would suggest going with the same as the base bite damage or one die less then that, it seems to be the most common formula.
Well, that's very frustrating. -_-