In Japan, the weathermen even have unique icons for him and his kind...
"Today, partly cloudy with 10% chance of Ghidora."
"Today, partly cloudy with 10% chance of Ghidora."
Go go godzilla!!!!
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Herobizkit
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I believe the Godzilla creature was statted out as a "Gargantua" (monster name, not Size description) in the 2ed Kara-Tur expansion for Oriental Adventures. There was a Reptilian, an Insectoid, and a Humanoid version.
The reptilian version didn't have a breath weapon, though that's no excuse as to why you couldn't add one.
The reptilian version didn't have a breath weapon, though that's no excuse as to why you couldn't add one.
orion90000
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El Mahdi
Muad'Dib of the Anauroch
Sorry. But after reading that Wikipedia entry, it seems pretty obvious that the only part of the folklore used as inspiration for the original D&D Tarasque,
was just the name and it's habit of devastating the country-side.
The physical description of the Tarasque of French Folklore is completely different from the physical description of the D&D Tarrasque.
The D&D Tarasque's physical description is much more consistent with Godzilla.
I'd say that likely, both were the inspiration for the D&D version.
French Tarasque
The French Tarasque on the Coat of Arms of the City of Tarascon
D&D Tarasque
Godzilla
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Samloyal23
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The carapace on the modern version looks about right, but why did they make it bipedal when the original version had six legs?
orion90000
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well, obviously they adjusted it to fit better and make it less cheesy. They've done that with a lot of monsters. Remember the old Chimera pictures? I'm glad they revamped things over time, because I always had a hard time fighting a monster that looked ridiculous - Hard to swing a sword while laughing.
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