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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6521768" data-attributes="member: 6787650">It's hard to make an interesting hook around an uninteresting monster. I guess if I were going to be interested in a Tarrasque, it would have to tell me something interesting about the game world. For example, maybe it turns out that a Tarrasque is found on about 1/4 of all game worlds (Oerth but not Toril, none in Eberron, but it turns out there is one on Athas!) and when there is one, it's always exactly just one. And then it turns out that all the "missing" Tarrasques are on Falx! Who put the Torilian Tarrasque on Falx, and why did they move it? (Was it the Precursors?) Were they just trying to get rid of it, and if so, why didn't they simply kill it? Why does every world have a Tarrasque in the first place?Alternately, maybe Falx is their homeworld and Tarrasques once used to be an intelligent, spacefaring species. The Tarrasques you see nowadays are their degenerate descendants after some kind of crazy disaster/curse/whatnot shattered their minds. Or maybe it's just the larval stage, and a grownup Tarrasque has a full human-style intellect...That's about what it would take to make the Tarrasque interesting to me.</blockquote>