If a wizard gets swallowed by a huge creature and the wizard makes the concentration check to cast a fireball inside the stomach does the creature get a reflex save ???
Going by the book, you always get a save, even when it makes very little sense.
A GM might rule-of-cool it and make the creature fail its save automatically, but that does raise issues of consistency - can the wizard save if he's still trapped inside the creature? What about someone who's asleep? What about someone in a narrow corridor with nothing to hide behind?
Does that count for reflex saves ?? Or just fort and will saves when your inside a creature ??
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RAW you can always try to save (if the effect allows a save, obviously). It works for every kind of save.
The GM can add circumstance bonuses or penalties if he thinks they are warranted, but the target can always try to save. In saves there is a factor of luck. Maybe your fireball was mostly absorbed by some undigested food, not the stomach walls. Or there was a lot of acid in the stomach and the heat was somewhat mitigated.
Old thread on always getting a reflex save. Paralyzed/helpless creatures are treated as having a Dex of zero, which means they're worse at reflex saves. You could apply a similar effect here, but it would be a house rule.
When you are swallowed whole you take damage each round in addition to gaining the grappled condition. That would be considered continuous damage and require a concentration check in addition to the check for being grappled. Assuming the caster makes both concentration checks to cast the spell the creature swallowing the caster would get a reflex save vs the fire ball.
The caster is also going to take the fireball damage and will require to make the save with the penalty for being grappled.
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If you want to get Pedantic RAW©, then casting that spell isn't even an option.
A swallowed creature can try to cut its way free with any light slashing or piercing weapon (the amount of damage required for the creature to cut itself free is equal to 1/10 the creature’s total hit points), or it can just try to escape the grapple. ... 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, it ends up back in the attacker’s mouth, where it may be bitten or swallowed again.A fireball is neither a light slashing or piercing weapon, nor does it "try to escape." So casting it is not a permitted action. However, dimension door or freedom of movement spells (assuming caster makes concentration checks) would be fine.
Pathfinder has a permission-based ruleset, yadda yadda.
"Shallowed whole" isn't a condition, so it doesn't apply any new limit to what you can do. The condition it applies is Grappled, and those are the limitations under which you act.
The pieces you bolded are:
1) a specific action that the shallowed creature can take to free himself/itself;
2) the specific result of success when escaping the grapple (you cut away part of that).
The swallowed creature can try to cast a spell, with the limitations that apply when being grappled, but the spell will not help him/it in cutting a way out.