I don't know if this counts for the quota of 1 Tarrasque per world though. Shouldn't do, since it was summoned.
I heard the other lairs in the Anauroch somewhere.
I read on wikipedia that Faerun has multiple Tarrasques. Can anyone confirm this? Why would Faerun have more than one?
I read on wikipedia that Faerun has multiple Tarrasques. Can anyone confirm this? Why would Faerun have more than one?
I heard that also...maybe it was a misinterpretation on someone's part...
-As far as I know, there is only one. There isn't much about the Faerûnian Tarrasque. All we really know about it was that it was part of the material components for Karsus' Avatar, it had great importance to the primitive Taxabi, where it was known as 'The Sleeper', and that supposedly, the Herald's Holdfast was attacked by the Tarrasque, but stood up to the assault.
Now that you mention it, wasn't there another referrance to Big T as The Sleeper being some sort of idolistic worship figurehead for some tribe or something like that...or is that the Taxi-cabby people you spoke of ?
-That's the Taxabi.
Figured as much...coulda sworn it was mentioned elsewhere too though
It seems the Terrasque is unique, but it is arguable if it's really one unique Terrasque per prime material world (making it not really so unique), and the creatures on Falx are exactly like Terrasque, but NOT terrasques... hows that for a work-around?
There was also a recent episode of Destination Truth wherein they searched for Earth's Terrasque, which hangs out in Vietnam. Maybe the Terrasque should be native to kara-Tur (Malatra Region) - it would fit in with all the other 'Giant Monsters' over there.
There was also a recent episode of Destination Truth wherein they searched for Earth's Terrasque, which hangs out in Vietnam. Maybe the Terrasque should be native to kara-Tur (Malatra Region) - it would fit in with all the other 'Giant Monsters' over there.
-Earth's Tarrasque is dead. That thing is a sham.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarasque
-Earth's Tarrasque is dead. That thing is a sham.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarasque
What a silly story!
What a silly story!
-That one, too, is a sham, but...that other story is even a shammier sham.
-That one, too, is a sham, but...that other story is even a shammier sham.
That tarasque model is rather (dare I say it?) cute though.
That tarasque model is rather (dare I say it?) cute though.
-Supposedly, the "real" one was a chubby little guy, I think.
That was a kick ass battle.
Anyway, there's one (non-canon, admitedly) reason why the Realms might have more than one Tarrasque. After all, if Malar can get the Ityak Ortheel (Elf Eater) going, it follows he could awaken a Tarrasque with the aid of his most devoted followers.
the nearly invulnerable type and the clockwork type.
the clockwork type would be interesting enough if i liked playing lethal tricks,
....... flaming claws and vorpal clockwork fangs...
Never liked the Tarrasque. It's just a so easlily copied concept... Mechanicly I think the 4E version of the Tarrasque is the best, with that crater creating sink into the earth death ability...
Like the Dracoliches - "How can we make an nigh-unstoppable monster even worse?"
Always wondered where the souls of the Tarrasques go...
The Undead Terrasque from Darksun was kinda fun - talk about overkill, though. :D
Ooooh!
You just totally gave me an excuse to resurrect the Tarrasque in my game.
I'll save it for after the Cleric earns back her powers for failing her deity. She'll be an insanely powerful Epic Cleric capable of laying waste to hoards of undead.
It'll be cool to see how she does against the undead version of a creature type that slew two of her adventuring companions.
Always wondered where the souls of the Tarrasques go...
-Do they even have souls? Deep philosophical question, there...:P
The Terrasque, no matter how often you kill it, always comes back... so how do you end up with an Undead one?
Still, it is an delisciously evil thing for a DM to spring on his uber-players.
-Do they even have souls? Deep philosophical question, there...:P
Perhaps, being as there is only one per Prime Plane, the Terrasque is in fact the 'soul' of the plane itself, personified.
Ooooh!
You just totally gave me an excuse to resurrect the Tarrasque in my game.
I'll save it for after the Cleric earns back her powers for failing her deity. She'll be an insanely powerful Epic Cleric capable of laying waste to hoards of undead.
It'll be cool to see how she does against the undead version of a creature type that slew two of her adventuring companions.
Big T's already been killed off in my game by a rival adventuring party, although his undead forn may be returning to harass my group....
There is supposedly some planet in a starjammer setting inhabited by tarrasques (plural), but none that I am aware of in FR. Save for a 2e module (how the mighty have fallen), I don't recall it ever being mentioned in the FR setting.
Yeah, the mod required you to get the Terrasque's spleen for Karsus as a spell component for his Avatar Form spell. The basic idea is that you can't convince him not to do it, so you might as well be part of history! The real fun comes in if you kill the Terrasque in a way that leaves his spleen as the largest piece of the monster. He starts regenerating from that piece and you've got to hurry back to Karsus' city or risk facing the monster all over again. But there is only one and at the time he is unkillable. It is only later that taking it to -30 hp and then using a well worded wish takes out the terrasque for ever.
Course the new terrasque is pretty nasty. A level 30 solo brute. Only the Ancient Red Dragon and Orcus come close (30 and 33 respectively for those at home who don't have the 4e MM).
As to if the Tarrasque can be turned into an undead, its theoretically possible if the Tarrasque is made permanently dead with a Wish spell. As to the type of undead it would be raised as, any speculation?
As to the type of undead it would be raised as, any speculation?
-Anything the Wish spell used to make it not dead anymore feels like? ;)
As to the type of undead it would be raised as, any speculation?
An colossal undead spleen? You practically need to scatter its remains before it dies of the wish spell no?
Also, since it is indeed technically dead, the magic that surrounds the Terrasque would still be activated, and a new one would appear on that world a decade later!
Now you have two on one world - maybe they could fight...
Anyhow, I don't think it should become a Lich like Dragons do... perhaps a form of deathknight, since it's just a sensless killing machine.
Well, if it was killed by negative energy drain (which is how despoiler magic worked in Darksun), it would have arisen again as an undead (possibly).
-But, it couldn't be "killed" like that to begin with.
-Anything the Wish spell used to make it not dead anymore feels like? ;)
Vampire Tarrasque! Demilich Tarrasque! Space Hampster Tarrasque!
Vampire Tarrasque! Demilich Tarrasque! Space Hampster Tarrasque!
-Each one, a more horrible foe to face...
Btw aren't they called Tabaxi?
The Catfolk of earlier editions, or the primary human tribe of Chult?
They have the same spelling, and I postulated here (and I think at CK) that at some point in the past a group of Tabaxi Warrriors from Katashaka (since that is where they are originally from) were kidnapped and 'augmented' by Rakshasa for their own nefarious purposes. This group escaped (long story) into the jungles, and have been growing and spreading to other parts of Toril, but they still go by their original name - The Tabaxi. Hence, we have the two groups of Tabaxi who have the same name because of a connection between them thousands of years old.
IIRC, Brian James (FR's official historian) seemed rather fond of that take on them.
4E Tarrasque simply cannot die. If reduced to 0 hit points it returns to the core of the earth, asleep. It was created by the primordials as a weapon.
-Is that true?
Abominations, Tarrasque
Eternal Slumber
When the Tarrasque is reduced to 0 hit points, it sinks back into the world's core and slumbers once again.
LK you need to get your books . . .
-I'm not particularly interested in the 4e ruleset. I like maybe 15% of what I've heard, and dislike 85% of what I've heard. Why would I spend money on something I'd not like 85% of the time?
Abominations, Tarrasque
Eternal Slumber
When the Tarrasque is reduced to 0 hit points, it sinks back into the world's core and slumbers once again.
-Wow...Thats, just wow.
Do you prefer it when it just regenerates more damage than you can credibly do, requires you to sink it a hundred points into negative and requires a wish to just die?
-Yes.
The MM does mention that you can get rid of the Tarrasque by tricking it into leaving the world (through a portal or something).
-Then someone else is ****ed! THEY have to deal with two Tarrasques, then! :D
And for once the tarrasue is actually a challenge to players of the appropriate level rather than a pushover.
-I never found the Tarrasque a "push over". My DM had us all create Level 20 characters, just to face it. Grassland plains, everyone fully prepared, all that. There was a Dwarven Fighter 20, a Human Wizard 15/Incantrix 5, an Elven Wizard 15/Archmage 5, a Human Cleric 20, and a Human Barbarian 20.
-My Elven Wizard/Archmage was totally ineffective, due to it's mirror carapace. I cast a Sunburst spell on it, which the DM had reflected back, causing damage to not only half the part, but blinding 3 our of the 5 of us (my character, the Barbarian and the fighter).
-Then, it went. Suffice to say, we lost.
-Then someone else is ****ed! THEY have to deal with two Tarrasques, then! :D
However, it might be a good idea to add in a rule in such a case - if two Terrasques occupy the same world, they will immediately seek one another out and attempt to destroy the other - the first one reduced to zero HP when there are two present will NOT sink into the earth; it is gone for good (unless re-animated as an undead).
Maybe this is how Athas got an Undead one in the first place.
The world that loses it's Terrasque should then 'grow' a new one in the bowels of the earth, in 1d10 years. A world should always have it's Terraque, unless some sort of Uber-godly intervention is keeping it so.
However, it might be a good idea to add in a rule in such a case - if two Terrasques occupy the same world, they will immediately seek one another out and attempt to destroy the other - the first one reduced to zero HP when there are two present will NOT sink into the earth; it is gone for good (unless re-animated as an undead).
-You know what happened when the Japanese Godzilla met the American Godzilla, right?
Unless you're talking about Mecha-godzilla...
who shouldn't be confused with Mecha-Kong or Mecha-Ghidra...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H8rQJ8MGJ0&feature=related
-I never found the Tarrasque a "push over". My DM had us all create Level 20 characters, just to face it. Grassland plains, everyone fully prepared, all that. There was a Dwarven Fighter 20, a Human Wizard 15/Incantrix 5, an Elven Wizard 15/Archmage 5, a Human Cleric 20, and a Human Barbarian 20.
-My Elven Wizard/Archmage was totally ineffective, due to it's mirror carapace. I cast a Sunburst spell on it, which the DM had reflected back, causing damage to not only half the part, but blinding 3 our of the 5 of us (my character, the Barbarian and the fighter).
-Then, it went. Suffice to say, we lost.
You cast a spell at the Tarrasque? Just mass fly and use range weapons. It cannot do anything at all to you.
You cast a spell at the Tarrasque? Just mass fly and use range weapons. It cannot do anything at all to you.
-Oh, I forgot. The Sunburst incinerated the Magic Carpets that 4 our of the 5 characters had.
-Oh, I forgot. The Sunburst incinerated the Magic Carpets that 4 our of the 5 characters had.
Haha, I hope noone was drinking anything while the DM described that
Haha, I hope noone was drinking anything while the DM described that
-We never finished that battle. It just kinda teetered out...I've become much more proficient making "optimized" characters since then, so I'd like to do that over, some day, maybe.
Well the new Big T has an aura that keeps you from nuking it from orbit. Keep everyone within biting distance (and it can bite everyone in biting distance every round)
-How does it do that? Multiple heads?
Nah when it gets bloodied it gets in a frenzy and starts biting people. I think Standard Action, Close Burst 3 Make a Bite attack against everyone in the burst or something.
-Alright. A 'burst' isn't exactly everyone. When you said that, I instantly thought about people attacking it front the front and the back all being hit.
Ehm that is exactly what happens. You confuse a burst with a blast. Close burst 3 covers a square area extending 3 squares from each side of Big T's space.
-That is stupid, then. Everyone, say, in one direction, makes sense. Everyone in every direction? No.
-Then someone else is ****ed! THEY have to deal with two Tarrasques, then! :D
Who knows, maybe the Tarrasque dies if removed from its native world.
Who knows, maybe the Tarrasque dies if removed from its native world.
-Well, that's just no fun.
-Well, that's just no fun.
It's less mean though.:P
It's less mean though.:P
-Yeah, well...
Would still make sense. The poor Tarrasque is so misunderstood. If it existed in our world it would be a protected species. If you want to kill Big T you have to cross the picket line!
-I'd probably eat the picket line.
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-I'd probably eat the picket line.
You would?
:embarrass
-Well, maybe I would, if the picket line was made of skittles. ;)
Last I had heard from my other gaming friends there were two in faerun one in Chult and one in the aunaroch as for how there's two who know's they did host a mortal who tried to steal control of the weave and many other high magical societies that could have summoned others maybe to attack rival countries then they lost control of the beastie.
-There's only one.