After my spy jumped into the pit and fought the beast, clicking the pit only brings up the option to "watch fight". My spy survived. I have played a few quests without needing to interact with the beast, but I am running out of those sorts of quests. No matter how long I wait or how many times I save and reload the game the pit beast remains inactive.

Is this a common game glitch? Will I seriously have to delete and rebuild my kingdom?

If you have testing cheats enabled you could try shift clicking on the beast and resetting it. That might work.

I know this doesn't help, but the thread title nearly killed me.

Nope. Enabling the the cheats doesn't help. Thanks for the suggestion anyway. I'll just work around it I guess.

In what way is it stuck ? if your spy survived and got out and you can play with the spy without probs but you dont see the pit beast thats kinda normal,
you only see the beats when its being fed or when somebody is fighting it.

Is not about the beast not being visible. Please, Read Carefully what ivyrose wrote:



That means that, when clicking, this is the only option available even after her spy survived and crawled out of the pit.

I'm sorry to know it is still stuck. This has not happened to me, my bard did get stuck with her scenery once, but the reset option (testingcheatsenabled) did work for me on that object.