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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6944163" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Bear in mind, guys, that this technique is not Tarrasque specific. The Tarrasque is really just a stand-in here for "big dumb non-tool-using monster with no regeneration." It could just as easily be a T-Rex or a rhino or a white dragon.Odds that your players will actually meet the Tarrasque at low level = low.Odds that your players will actually meet something worth killing in rot grub form = high.Note BTW that while fire definitely kills it in the first round, and cure disease spells like Lesser Restoration definitely kills it after that, those aren't necessarily the only ways to kill a rot grub. But anything else would fall under the Improvised Action and/or DM Winging It categories. Another poster noted "cut off the infested arm" as something that has worked at his table; I'd let it work on mine, and I'd also allow a white dragon to rip open its own belly with its teeth (taking auto-crit bite damage) and sterilize the wound with its breath weapon. I'd probably force it to make a DC 15 Medicine check beforehand to see if it's targeting the right area of its own anatomy. (Pain signals from inside the body can get pretty mixed-up.)My real point here is: DMs, think ahead about the implications of introducing this tiny beast into your campaign.</blockquote>