Need a name for BIG monsters

[Psion]

I may go with Viatoris (-i), inspired by this fellow:

http://wrbu.si.edu/www/stockwell/photos/p_viatoris(m).jpg

Edit: So much for my faith in the auto-parsing of URL on vBulliten! Aargh!

 

[Skarp Hedin]

Fun for everyone!

Entertain your players:

Call them tarrasques.

 

[Psion]

Re: Fun for everyone!

Entertain your players:

Call them tarrasques.

My players already know that I hate Tarrasques with a passion that is only exceeded by how much I hate Kender, so that won't fly.

 

[Squire James]

When such monsters were presented in previous TSR products, they were called "Gargantua". I guess they decided not to use that name because (1) the Oriental Adventures materials just came out, and (2) it might be confused with the Gargantuan size rating. Personally, I think D&D players are intelligent enough to know the difference, especially since one term would be used in-character and other term would not.

 

[Psion]

When such monsters were presented in previous TSR products, they were called "Gargantua". I guess they decided not to use that name because (1) the Oriental Adventures materials just came out, and (2) it might be confused with the Gargantuan size rating. Personally, I think D&D players are intelligent enough to know the difference, especially since one term would be used in-character and other term would not.

Not to turn this into a real thread, but the only such change that really vexed me war renaming the Arcane (from SJ and PS) as "Mercane."

At any rate, no, I thought of Gargantua (owning the 1e OA) and immediately dismissed it.

 

[Wolf72]

behemoth ... or put that into a word finder and see what kind of synonyms you get.

or come up with custom name brak'neer ...which in an ancient dialect of common means "gods' stinger"

... something like that.

 

[Kestrel]

Gorgul is the first thing that came to my mind.

well, actually, Voltron was first, but I figured that would bring back 80's cartoon flashbacks.

 

[Blacksad]

Gigantesque?
énorme?
monstrueux?

Some foreign langage term pronounced in english might work

 

[Skarp Hedin]

The Gargantua suggestion made me think of this:

Pantagruon, or something like that, from Pantagruel. Perhaps that's overly silly, I don't know.

In addition, I agree with you about the Tarrasque. I think that TSR really screwed up what could have been a much more interesting monster by over-exagerrating the myth. Well, the statue. A tarrasque should be more menacinig, rather than cartoonish.. but alas.

 

[Psion]

The Gargantua suggestion made me think of this:

Pantagruon, or something like that, from Pantagruel.

Not bad, but: what's pantagruel?