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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5881114" data-attributes="member: 59506">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. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses    B-)" data-shortname="B-)" /> French Tarasque<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/TarasqueStatue.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/TarasqueStatue.jpg/800px-TarasqueStatue.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> The French Tarasque on the Coat of Arms of the City of Tarascon<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Blason_de_la_ville_de_Tarascon_%2813%29.svg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Blason_de_la_ville_de_Tarascon_%2813%29.svg/545px-Blason_de_la_ville_de_Tarascon_%2813%29.svg.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> D&D Tarasque<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachments/d-d-legacy-discussion/51432d1334424426-go-go-godzilla-d-d-tarasque.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachments/d-d-legacy-discussion/51432d1334424426-go-go-godzilla-d-d-tarasque.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> Godzilla<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Godzilla_collage.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Godzilla_collage.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <img src="http://images.wikia.com/godzilla/images/7/72/Godzilla2004.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> <img src="http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Godzilla-1998-Modern-Day.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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