What do you do when Large creatures don't fit?

[roguemetal]

Large and larger creatures make great allies, companions, minions... etc.
But you can't always make them fit in the spaces they're confined.

-Reduce Person only works on humanoids
-Gaseous Form is useful but has its flaws
-Teleportation is great for doorways, but not if the ceiling is too low
-Polymorph Spells are great, but they are no equivalent for the real thing

I don't see much that really allows them to move freely beside you if they're too big.

[animewatcha]

Depends upon the location at the time. If like at a tavern, hunch down to fit into entrance. When in dungeon, sunder/whatever the walls surrounding the door. Heck, even get a free door outta the deal.

[roguemetal]

Depends upon the location at the time. If like at a tavern, hunch down to fit into entrance. When in dungeon, sunder/whatever the walls surrounding the door. Heck, even get a free door outta the deal.
Sunder the the ceiling too? Huge creatures usually don't fit in 5 ft. underground corridors even with these tricks.

[animewatcha]

Why not. Useful way of dungeon bypass. Gotta rescue a damsel in distress in a fortress? Sunder the outside wall for areas for hands/feet and rescue her king kong style. Creativity can make for a funny session and possibly even bypass some traps/mobs, save some resources, etc.

[Ryulin18]

as animewatcha said: depends on situation.

If it's a hostile monster, it's trapped for a reason. If the players are trying to escape, remember it's reach. Have it make a grapple as it stretches through the door, grabbing one of the players and dragging them back into the room.

Corridors are a horror. The rule for squeezing comes in handy here:
squeeze rules (http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Movement,_Position,_and_Distance#Squeezing)
large can squeeze to medium. Because nothing is more terrifying than the hydra squeezing up the tunnel after you!

If it's a player who is constantly large, let them work it out. That's half the fun. Like confronting a party of centaurs with a ladder being the only exit from certain doom.

[Deophaun]

Arms and Equipment guide has the shrink collar that turns anything wearing it into a Small creature. 10,000 gp. Otherwise, lard. Lots and lots of lard.

[roguemetal]

Arms and Equipment guide has the shrink collar that turns anything wearing it into a Small creature. 10,000 gp. Otherwise, lard. Lots and lots of lard.
Neat. Wonder if I can fit it on my Retriever.

[Toliudar]

For getting big critters through temporary situations, Enveloping pit is usually plenty large, and is affordable at the mid levels when you might start attracting huge creatures. 10x10x50' has a lot of air. A huge creature can squeeze in quite capably, and live for hours in there while you enter a city, go shopping, have your audience with duke Fawfawfaw and then head out again, where you release them into a rented stables/warehouse/forest/farmer's field.

Or, if they're undead, constructs or oozes, leave them in the pit indefinitely.

[Iskajir]

Psionic Compression?