So one of my loony players found a necklace of fireballs. He is a suicidally over-confidant Tiefling sorcerer.
Against all logic and reason, and probably just to prove that he could, he ate one of the necklace of fireball beads, confident that his racial fire resistance would save him.
My issue is he ate the damn thing. I know holding a firework tightly can cost you your fingers but by that logic, it should be so much worse to swallow, what is basically a grenade.
Can someone give me some idea of what should happen in this case?
(Thank you all for the great answers. Some fantastic ideas to be found in the responses.
By the book, not dead at all.
From the description of the item on page 182 of the DMG:
You can use an action to detach a bead and throw it up to 60 feet away. When it reaches the end of its trajectory, the bead detonates as a 3rd-level fireball spell (save DC 15)
The beads have to be thrown for them to detonate. By RAW this is the only way for them to activate and thus swallowing them does nothing.
Even if you want to make a ruling, the text seems to imply that they blow up on impact. You could extend that to “when destroyed”, but it is also unlikely that an item like this would be damaged by gastric fluids, as it is most probably made of glass or stone. The worst they would be facing if I were the DM is an explosive diarrhea. You are free to decide otherwise, however