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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6800245" data-attributes="member: 6787650">I give legendary monsters 3 legendary actions no matter who they're fighting, but technically by RAW, a mount shares the same turn as its rider, so the Tarrasque would get only one legendary Move action, giving it only 60' of movement and a 60' rock range, or 100' of movement on a Dash, whereas the wizard's mount can Dash for 140'... so it's not impossible in principle for him to find the right range to kite in and out again before the Tarrasque can throw its rock. The tricky thing is that the Tarrasque could Ready an action to throw the rock as soon as the wizard gets within 60', which he has to do 600 times... The wizard has to end every turn at least 125' away from the Tarrasque in order to be safe, so whether or not he can win this fight or at least stalemate it depends on whether the Tarrasque can successfully surprise him with a Readied action when he hits the 60' range, and that in turn depends on how the DM runs Readied actions (can enemies see what action is being readied and what the triggers are?).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6800245, member: 6787650"] I give legendary monsters 3 legendary actions no matter who they're fighting, but technically by RAW, a mount shares the same turn as its rider, so the Tarrasque would get only one legendary Move action, giving it only 60' of movement and a 60' rock range, or 100' of movement on a Dash, whereas the wizard's mount can Dash for 140'... so it's not impossible in principle for him to find the right range to kite in and out again before the Tarrasque can throw its rock. The tricky thing is that the Tarrasque could Ready an action to throw the rock as soon as the wizard gets within 60', which he [I]has[/I] to do 600 times... The wizard has to end every turn at least 125' away from the Tarrasque in order to be safe, so whether or not he can win this fight or at least stalemate it depends on whether the Tarrasque can successfully surprise him with a Readied action when he hits the 60' range, and that in turn depends on how the DM runs Readied actions (can enemies see what action is being readied and what the triggers are?). [/QUOTE]

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