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<blockquote data-quote="Fieari" data-source="post: 2758668" data-attributes="member: 16221">Feel free to link to it.I suppose the Chrono Trigger team could have been fighting a tarrasque with a couple added abilities... the Manifest DNA one for certain, but it'd also need two spell like abilities... a short range &quot;Destruction Rains from the Heavens&quot; and a global ranged version.&nbsp; In the game, when Lavos erupted on judgement day (in the year 1999, in fact) it seared the surface of the entire planet.What I found most interesting though, was that simply by increasing the tarrasque's size to Macro-Large, it practically gained the shorter ranged version of the same effect (seen when fighting Lavos more personally) for free... via Improved Whirlwind Attack and it's 2 mile melee attack range.Having a fear aura make players think the creature they're fighting is much larger is a very cool idea by the way, and I think I'll make use of it in my own games.As for why I want something that big... well, mostly it's just a case of the imagery.&nbsp; Lavos is basically this huge spikey sphere that rains death and destruction.&nbsp; I suppose one could do with something slightly smaller though.&nbsp; Maybe only the size of a skyscraper, instead of the whole city.Figuring out the stats was fun though.&nbsp; Interestingly enough, it seems to me that it has revealed yet another flaw in the official epic level system, in that Wizards' is definitely anthrocentric when it comes to size.&nbsp; I mean, when you're this huge, you have OODLES of skill points, but a balance DC of 120 is all you need to be able to -stand on a cloud-?&nbsp; Hm.&nbsp; Perhaps really really huge creatures should get a penalty to DEX based skill checks to make them have to spend those oodles of points to be able to do such things?&nbsp; Perhaps a division-based penalty?&nbsp; Something to think about.Now I'm itching to stat up the Great A'tuin, the Star Turtle from Discworld fame... and the four elephants as well.&nbsp; (A'tuin swims through space carrying four elephants on its back, and on the backs of those elphants is the Discworld, an entire planet that just happens to be flat)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fieari, post: 2758668, member: 16221"] Feel free to link to it. I suppose the Chrono Trigger team could have been fighting a tarrasque with a couple added abilities... the Manifest DNA one for certain, but it'd also need two spell like abilities... a short range "Destruction Rains from the Heavens" and a global ranged version. In the game, when Lavos erupted on judgement day (in the year 1999, in fact) it seared the surface of the entire planet. What I found most interesting though, was that simply by increasing the tarrasque's size to Macro-Large, it practically gained the shorter ranged version of the same effect (seen when fighting Lavos more personally) for free... via Improved Whirlwind Attack and it's 2 mile melee attack range. Having a fear aura make players think the creature they're fighting is much larger is a very cool idea by the way, and I think I'll make use of it in my own games. As for why I want something that big... well, mostly it's just a case of the imagery. Lavos is basically this huge spikey sphere that rains death and destruction. I suppose one could do with something slightly smaller though. Maybe only the size of a skyscraper, instead of the whole city. Figuring out the stats was fun though. Interestingly enough, it seems to me that it has revealed yet another flaw in the official epic level system, in that Wizards' is definitely anthrocentric when it comes to size. I mean, when you're this huge, you have OODLES of skill points, but a balance DC of 120 is all you need to be able to -stand on a cloud-? Hm. Perhaps really really huge creatures should get a penalty to DEX based skill checks to make them have to spend those oodles of points to be able to do such things? Perhaps a division-based penalty? Something to think about. Now I'm itching to stat up the Great A'tuin, the Star Turtle from Discworld fame... and the four elephants as well. (A'tuin swims through space carrying four elephants on its back, and on the backs of those elphants is the Discworld, an entire planet that just happens to be flat) [/QUOTE]

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