Dude, the whole second part of what you quoted answers your question:
A swallowed creature can try to cut its way free with any light slashing or piercing weapon (the amount of cutting damage required to get free is equal to 1/10 the creature’s total hit points), or it can just try to escape the grapple. The Armor Class of the interior of a creature that swallows whole is normally 10 + 1/2 its natural armor bonus, with no modifiers for size or Dexterity. If a swallowed creature cuts its way out, the swallowing creature cannot use swallow whole again until the damage is healed. If the swallowed creature escapes the grapple, success puts it back in the attacker’s mouth, where it may be bitten or swallowed again.
Unfortunately though, a normal monks is going to be SOL. Their unarmed strikes deal bludgeoning damage only, which will not cut your way out of the creature's stomach.
So you can attack from the inside, while taking the penalties of the grappled condition, and try to cut your way out. Without a piercing or slashing weapon you can only damage the creature, not cut your way out.
Of course, dealing damage to the creature from the inside is almost always easier and often less damaging than taking the full attacks on the outside.
Swallow Whole is similar in function and wording to pin. It gives you a limited list of allowed actions. Simply attacking to do damage is not one of those options.
Unless your monk has a way to deal slashing or piercing damage with it's unarmed strike it's only option is to attempt to escape.
I do not think the list in the quote is completely exhaustive of your options. For example, I think casting a spell while inside should be possible. Difficult, but possible.
So I think it's okay to punch or kick the consumer from the inside, until such time that your companions fell it and you can escape, or your companions fall and you eventually die to acid.
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If your GM says "No", then it's time to buy one of those light piercing or slashing Monk weapons for when you get swallowed again.
It certainly is a bit exploitative. I had a Natural Attack focused character that once wanted to get swallowed, too. I joked that it would be easier to hit from the inside.
But that's not a sane in-character idea. It's something that requires out-of-character knowledge and reasoning.
if only we could ask the writers of the rules for an answer.being punched from inside should hurt just as much if not more because unless the creature has a scaled or armored stomach. and if you can reach it why can't you just punch the monster's uvula triggering its gag reflex and vomit you out like in a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
your DM might be of the mind that you dont have enough room to build up a strong enough of a swing to do damage since your being pressed upon from all sides. unlike the cartoons there would not be enough room inside to have space to move about freely. sure a huge monster can 3 or four people whole but its not like being dropped into a room in its gut more like a slimy acid coated pouch that's being constricted upon from the outside only expanding enough to fit the eaten stuff.
One guy I know runs it as if you do the damage to escape being swallowed the creature is dead. You don't merely escape.
If your GM says "No", then it's time to buy one of those light piercing or slashing Monk weapons for when you get swallowed again.
It certainly is a bit exploitative. I had a Natural Attack focused character that once wanted to get swallowed, too. I joked that it would be easier to hit from the inside.
But that's not a sane in-character idea. It's something that requires out-of-character knowledge and reasoning.
I'm not agreeing with this one. Seeing something with a huge maw and having the thought of jumping in to tear its way to it heart directly is a fairly common idea. Granted it's most commonly some kind of explosive being thrown in, but the idea of going in to kill it from it's vulnerable spots is nothing new or even that fantastical.
I do not think the list in the quote is completely exhaustive of your options. For example, I think casting a spell while inside should be possible. Difficult, but possible.
Considering that you're taking both ongoing damage AND you're still in a grapple, difficult is an understatement.
The intention of this post is to point out you can in fact DO damage I never once stated, mentioned or asked if you could get out via bludgeon damage. This seems to be escaping people who glance at this sadly.
It is merely "Can you do damage with bludgeon damage" not "Can I break out with bludgeon damage"
Yes, but I was expanding and adding extra information just in case those were parts of the questions you hadn't asked or thought about yet.
And in any regard, the part you quoted still has the answer you're looking for. While swallowed hole you are treated as grappled, you have all the restrictions of being grappled (which allows you to attack). In addition you can also try to cut yourself free. It's literally all there in the section you quoted.
It certainly is a bit exploitative. I had a Natural Attack focused character that once wanted to get swallowed, too. I joked that it would be easier to hit from the inside.
But that's not a sane in-character idea. It's something that requires out-of-character knowledge and reasoning.
"How can I get closer to its vulnerable vital organs? Hmmmmm."
In our kingmaker campaign we recently came across something that swallows whole, and our unchained rogue with acid resistance climbed in its mouth to try to sneak attack it's organs. Acid resist 5, with 1d6 acid per round, he was quite comfy.
Also I'm seeing nothing in swallow whole about suffocating, mentioned above, am I missing something?