D&D 5E I have something... THE TARRASQUE!

[Dausuul]

Hell, if that's your issue, halflings break the game here. It's got a WIS bonus of +0, so if you give a SINGLE 1st-level dex-focused Archer fighter with training in Stealth a SINGLE magic bow, it can eventually plink T into the negatives as well by run-and-hide-and-snipe-and-run-again. Range matters less with this strategy, so give 'im a sling, and T will literally never know what hit it.

The tarrasque has two answers to that tactic.

One is to ready an attack for when the halfling breaks cover. This is the standard response for any monster facing a move-attack-move sniper.

The other is that "Siege Monster" ability. What exactly is the halfling hiding behind, again?

 

[kenmarable]

Another minor disappointment about the lack of regeneration is that it puts a damper on the city built around a tarrasque at least under RAW. I sure hope at least trolls still have regeneration, otherwise they are pretty boring.

But at least with the 5e tarrasque I can still re-use my favorite encounter with it - having a portal located within its stomach so that the PCs are trying to get swallowed. Fun times.

 

[Ravenheart87]

I sure hope at least trolls still have regeneration, otherwise they are pretty boring.

They have. Check out the Hoard of the Dragon Queen supplemental pdf.

 

[Thaumaturge]

African or European?

Huh? Well...I don't know that. /thrown higher than a tarrasque can jump.

I'm surprised no one has come in and pointed out: if you want the tarrasque to have regeneration, just give it Second Wind.

Thaumaturge.

 

[wedgeski]

Secondly, without a third page it is a very "statty" and overall empty entry. I'd love to see a third page with "Tarrasquean Lore" - examples of tidbits about the creature, stories, and possible ways to use it in your campaign. Flesh it out a bit! Who knows, maybe that is there, but I'm doubtful.

I think three pages might be excessive for one creature, even if that creature is the big T! However, I wouldn't have minded if the first page was half illustration and half lore.

 

[Wolfskin]

I think three pages might be excessive for one creature, even if that creature is the big T! However, I wouldn't have minded if the first page was half illustration and half lore.

Ditto. I would rather have smaller illustrations and more fluff, though to be honest the point of the Tarrasque is that nobody really knows for sure where it comes from, hence the "punishment from the gods" myth.

When you don't know why something went wrong, blame the gods.

 

[zoroaster100]

What I would add to the Tarrasque is another form of attack it can use in place of one or more of its regular attacks: "throw small home/boulder" and "throw large house/large boulder" (to replace two attacks or chomp legendary action). This would give it a long range attack.

And also some form of small but nasty monsters that live as parasites on the Tarrasque's hide, but drop off constantly, maybe 1d6 per round, so it provides additional danger even if you seek to escape into small crevisses. Maybe those parasites even fly.

And I'd add back the regeneration, and the near-immortality that means when the Tarrasque reaches 0 hp it merely goes into hibernation unless you also wish it dead with a wish spell.

 

[SkidAce]

Huh? Well...I don't know that. /thrown higher than a tarrasque can jump.

I'm surprised no one has come in and pointed out: if you want the tarrasque to have regeneration, just give it Second Wind.

Thaumaturge.

Bad Thaumaturge....no cookie...

 

[Kinak]

And also some form of small but nasty monsters that live as parasites on the Tarrasque's hide, but drop off constantly, maybe 1d6 per round, so it provides additional danger even if you seek to escape into small crevisses. Maybe those parasites even fly.

Giant stirges anyone?

Cheers!
Kinak

 

[the Jester]

The art is nice, except for the eyes. Why does it have the eyes of a prey and not those of a predator ?

Because it is prey.

Somewhere deep underground, slumbering until awakened by the pheremones released by tarrasque mating, are the things that prey upon it. You don't want them to wake. You just don't.