Tarrasque, good foe for tier 3?

[Blackhawk748]

What are you talking about? The Tarrasque is not aquatic.

Kingdoms of Kalamar, that settings Tarrasque is Aquatic.

[Andezzar]

That may have been what you intended to write, but what you actually wrote was claiming that the Tarrasque was aquatic in any setting except Kingdoms of Kalamar, hence my confusion.

[Blackhawk748]

So i did. Wow that was some bad comma placement.

[ninjamaster1991]

Is there any reason why loading several hundred doses of Aboleth Mucus into a catapult wouldn't work?

[Andezzar]

Why wouldn't a single dose be enough? I forgot it allows a save.
And yes, it would work.

[Jeff the Green]

Magical beasts eat sleep and breathe, the Tarrasque is a magical beast, ergo it breathes. The Tarrasque does not have the aquatic or amphibious subtype, so it does not breathe under water.

[rules lawyering]Now you can make that point moot as the rules do not indicate the frequency of eating sleeping or breathing for any creature. So it may take a long time until the Tarrasque needs to do any of those again[/rules lawyering]

The question is whether it floats and thus could be killed by chucking it in a non-infinite swimming pool, and in that case lung capacity (and my ignorance of that of reptiles) matters.

[Andezzar]

The question is whether it floats and thus could be killed by chucking it in a non-infinite swimming pool, and in that case lung capacity (and my ignorance of that of reptiles) matters.

With that STR score the Tarrasque has no problem swimming. So given the unknown lung capacity it can either swim to any existing surface or it cannot depending on GM fiat. With the regeneration and high Fort save only very deep waters will become a problem.

[Jeff the Green]

With that STR score the Tarrasque has no problem swimming. So given the unknown lung capacity it can either swim to any existing surface or it cannot depending on GM fiat. With the regeneration and high Fort save only very deep waters will become a problem.

EXcept that after a certain number of rounds it drowns and goes unconscious. If at that point it sinks we're fine. If it doesn't, we're screwed.

[Belial_the_Leveler]

1) Time-Stop, maximized.

2) Multiple Walls of Stone, entrapping Big T with too much thickness for him to make the break DC.

3) Let him drown in solid stone.

[j_spencer93]

1) Time-Stop, maximized.

2) Multiple Walls of Stone, entrapping Big T with too much thickness for him to make the break DC.

3) Let him drown in solid stone.

how would that increase the DC? wouldn't it just be the same per wall, so even if you put three on each side it still the same DC to break the walls one by one?

[Belial_the_Leveler]

1) Walls of stone merge into adjoining rock surfaces. If you got 5 of them in a row, you don't have 5 walls each 5 inches thick but a single wall 25 inches thick.


2) Walls of stone can be shaped to entrap opponents. Coat Big T with the first wall, then the first with the second, the second with the third and so on and so forth. It's a DC 70 strength check to breat out of a quintuple layer which nobody save Superman or a sufficiently buffed CoDzilla could succeed in.

[j_spencer93]

oh ya, sorry you are right. lol

[j_spencer93]

1) Walls of stone merge into adjoining rock surfaces. If you got 5 of them in a row, you don't have 5 walls each 5 inches thick but a single wall 25 inches thick.


2) Walls of stone can be shaped to entrap opponents. Coat Big T with the first wall, then the first with the second, the second with the third and so on and so forth. It's a DC 70 strength check to breat out of a quintuple layer which nobody save Superman or a sufficiently buffed CoDzilla could succeed in.

actually that one class in the Dragon Magazine with cronos in it could.

[Flickerdart]

It's a DC 70 strength check to breat out of a quintuple layer which nobody save Superman or a sufficiently buffed CoDzilla could succeed in.

Nothing is stopping Big T from simply bashing the stone until he breaks through. Stone only has hardness 8, meaning that every single one of the tarrasque's natural attacks is effective. It is impossible to miss the wall, so he can augment his attacks with Power Attack and will be out of there in no time.

[j_spencer93]

kinda what i was thinking too, it taking a full attack would pretty much remove a large chunk. legendary dreadnought was the class i was thinking of lol

[JustIgnoreMe]

1) Use Trap the Soul on big T.

2) Expend the resulting soul-gem as a spellcasting component.

3) Enjoy bragging rights for permanently and irrevocably (bar time-travel) getting rid of an "unkillable" monster.

Speaking of which, any chance of seeing those Rovagug stats you were using over in the Challenge thread? Having read into Pathfinder's take on Big T and his connections to Rovagug, I think your perspective on "unkillable" monsters is very interesting.