Tarrasque or not Tarrasque?

[JimAde]

I apologize in advance

If you're not willing Tarrasque, you'll never learn.

*rimshot*

 

[Talmun]

If you're not willing Tarrasque, you'll never learn.

*rimshot*

No apologies necessary, as long as your jokes about the big T don't go blue, you know get too Tarrisqué...

I'm supprised at the number of you that faced him at low levels, esp. as a wondering monster...talk about a killer DM...

 

[Talmun]

If you're not willing Tarrasque, you'll never learn.

*rimshot*

No apologies necessary, as long as your jokes about the big T don't go blue, you know get too Tarrisqué...

I'm surprised at the number of you that faced him at low levels, esp. as a wondering monster...talk about a killer DM...

 

[Talmun]

If you're not willing Tarrasque, you'll never learn.

*rimshot*

No apologies necessary, as long as your jokes about the big T don't go blue, you know, get too Tarrisqué...

I'm surprised at the number of you that faced him at low levels, esp. as a wondering monster...talk about a killer DM...

Very sorry for the multi-post...cursed slow work connection...would one of you moderators mind deleting the extras?

 

[Philip]

Fought and killed him in 2e, was no big deal. Then met another one and captured it by flying in front of him with a Mirror of Life Trapping.

Then we switched to 3e. I guess currently I am just waiting for the appriopriate time to release him from the mirror.

 

[Psion]

Never used it. Never will.

Ever since I first saw it, it seemed to me simply an excuse to rough up a high level party. I never found the creature itself interesting.

 

[buzzard]

I think whether he's interesting as an opponent depends to some extent on how you use him...Godzilla doesn't reflect 30% of spells cast on him back at the caster...

Still, you (and others) have a point about his lack of offensive ablilties beyond melee attacks...
Hmmm, Half-Dragon T maybe?

Half Dragon? I rather think there are some things even a dragon wouldn't do.
Ahem.

buzzard

 

[JimAde]

No apologies necessary, as long as your jokes about the big T don't go blue, you know, get too Tarrisqué...

That was terrible. Thanks.

 

[wocky]

I actually came face to face with it twice... not that the first time wasn't enough for the simple mention of the Tarrasque becoming a big inside-joke of my group.

The first time my party (around 5th or 7th level) was sent to the future, where we were all 20th level. The habit does not make the monk... even at 20th level we didn't have enough experience handling all our abilities, and all NPCs around us suggested we went directly face to face with the thing. We eventually got away, somehow...

The second time we faced a young Tarrasque, something more within our powers... not within safe levels of sillyness though

 

[Calico_Jack73]

If I remember right the 1E and 2E Tarrasque was quite a bit tougher than the 3E. Even older dragons wouldn't mess with the earlier incarnations of the Tarrasque. I remember looking at the entry for the 3E Tarrasque and comparing it to the Dragon stats and thinking "Why the heck wouldn't an adult gold dragon go whip the Tarrasque whenever it came calling in his neck of the woods?".

Edit: I look at the Tarrasque as nature's personification of destruction. It isn't inherently evil anymore than a forest fire is. It wakes up, destroys a large area around it and then goes back to sleep. That is how I use it in my games at least though I've never really used it in a plot. By it's very nature it isn't something that I believe can really be "used" by one faction against another. Just my take on it.