How To Kill The Tarrasque, For First-Level Parties

[Psyckosama]

How To Kill The Tarrasque, For First-Level Parties

Note -- This one was designed back during 2e D&D. I haven't been able to *find* the 'Green Slime' monster entry for 3e.


Step one -- Find green slime.

Step two -- Have party mage cast 'Unseen Servant' for safely handling green slime.

Step three -- Place green slime safely in securely corked, but breakable, glass vials.

Step four -- Buy cow.

Step five -- Lead cow to town where tarrasque is rampaging.

Step six -- Kill cow and fasten vials of green slime to outside of cow corpse. Make you sure stuff enough vials on it that the corpse cannot be chewed without breaking at least one.

Step seven -- Leave cow corpse on ground. Step way back and watch tarrasque bite free steak dinner. (Note -- tarrasques do not *EVER* pass up free meals.)

Step eight -- Watch tarrasque bite open vial while chewing cow and get green slime on teeth.

Step nine -- Watch tarrasque turn into green slime in 1d3 rounds, as per 2e green slime monster description. For optional pleasure, dance mocking jig at tarrasque for being of only 1 Intelligence and therefore being too stupid to recognize green slime and/or take basic anti-green slime precautions and treatment measures.

Step ten -- Buy lots of lamp oil and clean up big, stationary, non-regenerating heap of green slime with large fire.

Step eleven -- You're first-level characters who just killed a tarrasque! Go you!

 

[Crothian]

Green Slime is in the DMG

 

[dcollins]

Green slime is on DMG p. 117.
It is a type of disease (cure disease kills it).
The tarrasque has disease immunity.

 

[Xarlen]

Well, I don't know about you guys, but I've had some mean DMs.

I knew we'd fight the Tarrasque at the end of the campaign (Luckily we never got there and I quit it because I didn't like the group or the DM).

But I knew he was a real bastard about wishes, and I finally figured out a way to wish the Tarrasque away.

"I wish the Tarrasque had no mouth."

 

[Chauzu]

Step twelve -- recieve mucho xp.

 

[WayneLigon]

Green slime is on DMG p. 117.
It is a type of disease (cure disease kills it).
The tarrasque has disease immunity.

Yep, which means the 1st level party is prety much out of luck Also, it's completely immune to all forms of damage; at best, attacks do stunning damage to it. And they still have to wish it dead, even if the mentioned tactic would even work.

 

[Psyckosama]

Green Slime is in the DMG

I was just fowarding something sent to me by a friend...

 

[s/LaSH]

Hey, it's a good idea... you could still use it against dragons, for example (although they'd probably remove it fairly quickly). And because it does Constitution damage, the slime is actually better suited for fighting bigger monsters who have more hp than CON.

An interesting idea...

 

[RangerWickett]

And here's how you beat the system. You have one of the more expendable PCs touch the green slime and play with it, and you make sure you have a hired cleric nearby who can cure disease. You say, "Quick, cleric, cure me of this disease!" And if the DM is a bastard and says it's acidic slime, not a disease, you sigh that your buddy is going to die.

Then you use your DM's poor knowledge of the rules to kill the Tarrasque.