D&D 4E Will the Tarrasque be in 4E MM?

[RigaMortus2]

I'd like to see it's stat block...

 

[Masquerade]

I think that I would rather see those MM pages used on a more useful monster, but the Tarrasque would make for a good Dungeon/D&DI article.

 

[Nymrohd]

Well i depends, the Tarrasque would make a good solo monster for very high levels.

 

[Shroomy]

Hah, with no wish spell (and its divine opposite, miracle), the tarrasque would be well nigh unstopable!

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey all!

I'd be disappointed if the Tarrasque isn't in the Monster Manual as a Level 30 Solo Brute.

 

[Stalker0]

Now that certain magics like invisibility and flight may be harder to dish out at higher levels, the tarrasque may be a whole lot scarier!!

 

[Wolfspider]

No doubt the tarrasque will be featured in the new MM....

....and it will have boobies.

 

[Crothian]

It needs to be in MM2 where it belongs!!

 

[Dausuul]

The tarrasque has always been a bit of a problem. It's supposed to be the Ultimate Monster, the combat brute to end all combat brutes... but long before you're tough enough to take it on hand-to-hand, you can fly pretty much at will, which ends its ability to pose an offensive threat to the PCs. As it stands, killing the tarrasque is an exercise in character sheet math: How can we deal more than 40 points of damage per round over a sufficiently long duration (or attack in some other fashion, such as ability drain) to bring it down?

Making flight harder to come by will help, but remember that this is a beast you don't expect to fight until epic levels. If at-will flight is possible ever, you'll have it by the time you face the tarrasque.

I really see no way around it; the tarrasque needs either wings of its own, or a ranged attack of some kind. I'd give it an "Earthshaking Roar" ability that inflicts AoE sonic damage and knocks flyers out of the sky. Give it that, along with combat stats suitable for an epic-level solo brute, and killing the tarrasque will become a deed truly worthy of the name.

 

[arscott]

I'm betting the Tarrasque will be MM example of a Primordial, one of the beings from the elemental chaos that fought against the gods at the beginning of time. So maybe it will have elemental powers that it can use against flying foes.