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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6414149" data-attributes="member: 2525">No, I don't want it to be more powerful than it is, I want to play 5e the way the game suggests it can be played - which is by using things like improvised weapons, and other general combat and movement rules.  It's a real rule, it works as I described it, and there is nothing wrong with a monster using that rule.  In addition, your suggestion that an intelligence of 3 is too low to throw a random object, I find to be faulty.  Intelligence of 3 is not too low for that sort of behavior, and the monster manual has plenty of creatures with similar attacks and intelligence that low or even lower.Here, I will walk you through it. Improvised weapons, PHB Pg. 147 "An improvised weapon includes any object you can wield in one or two hands, such as broken glass, a table leg, a frying pan, a wagon wheel, or a dead goblin. In many cases, an improvised weapon is similar to an actual weapon and can be treated as such. For example, a table leg is akin to a club."Now, from the MM, starting around Pg. 152, under Giants, "Their weapons are uprooted trees and rocks pulled from the earth" and then a rock is listed as their ranged weapon attack.Uprooted trees and rocks pulled from the earth is exactly the sort of stuff a Tarrasque can easily toss around.  Indeed, directly in it's abilities it's listed as a siege monster that deals double damage to objects, and it's described as rising from beneath the earth to wreck destruction on everything in it's path.  There is nothing at all outside the rules to say it uses a boulder as an improvised weapon, which is similar to the actual Giant weapon of a rock, and therefore can be treated as such a rock.Furthermore your idea of dropping alchemist fire doesn't work.  It can only be thrown up to 20 feet, and a Tarrasque can easily ready an action to jump when you come in range, and attack using a legendary action, and now you're swallowed and dead.</blockquote>

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