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| Trafaldi |
Posted - 19 Oct 2003 : 20:42:09
List some of your experiences with the mighty tarrasque. |
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| Malaug |
Posted - 18 Feb 2004 : 13:01:02
The Tarrasque also appears in the adventures, Mines of Bloodstone H2 (I think) and Throne of Bloodstone H4.
I was DMing and the party ran into it in the tests of Orcus in Mines of Bloodstone. There is no way to get around it once you enter the 7 tests. It ended with a TPK all of the characters died after having arms and legs chomped off. I have to admit though that I was rolling on fire that night. The only character to survive was a 15th Level Mage who snapped his Staff of Power with a retributive strike. He was teleported off to the Elemental Plane of Water, the Tarrasque was killed and the game was ended.
The Second time that we ran into it was in Throne of Bloodstone, but the DM (not me this time) only used it to soften us up a bit. My character lost an arm but after a few heals and a spell with a ring of regeneration he was right as rain.
I would urge characters who ever play this adventure to at all costs avoid Ferilicus the Abyssal Red Dragon. He makes the Tarrasque look like a walk in the park! |
| Trafaldi |
Posted - 12 Jan 2004 : 15:30:47
I have watched the mighty Tarrasque fall in one round to my brother's lvl 20 druid...Curse him and his wretched drown spell...But again i was impressed and because it was logically correct i had to allow it. So all of you out there looking for a character that can easily overcome a Tarrasque look to the druids.
Look at the spell Drown in magic of Faerun and you will understand |
| DrakeDreldragon |
Posted - 16 Dec 2003 : 09:16:00
Umm... i was wondering, has a tarrasque ever appeared in any of the forgotten realms novels or anything like that? Cos im currently working on a novel at the moment, and i was thinking of maybe featuring one... would be an interesting battle. Though i think the heroes would need smarts to defeat one rather than skills. For instance, i loved that idea about closing the portal on its head. I'd use it myself if i had have thought of it!
-DRAKE |
| Edain Shadowstar |
Posted - 15 Dec 2003 : 04:44:30
First, the Tarrasque does appear in the Forgotten Realms at least once I know of off the top of my head. It appears in the Arcane Age adventure 'How the Mighty are Fallen', wherein the PCs have to remove the Tarrasque's pituitary gland and return it to Karsus the Archwizard. Now, while many do not like the Arcane Age products, they are technically canonized. You know, the whole, "So it is written, so it shall be done!" thing.
Now, as for my campaigns, the Tarrasque has appeared about half a dozen times or so. In ture Tarrasque style he never dies, and gives my PCs a run for their money. I think the funniest time was when the Tarrasque appeared when the PCs were fighting a black dragon. Maybe our DM was angry that day, or just high, but apparantly fighting in a Wild Magic area carries a slim risk of accidently summoning a Tarrasque...who knew? It was funny watching the dragon try and kill the Tarrasque, while the Tarrasque tried to kill us, while we tried to kill the dragon.
All I can say is, lucky my contigency did not go wild.  |
| eilinel |
Posted - 14 Dec 2003 : 15:31:42
The Tarrasque family
mmm... well, why not? |
| Trafaldi |
Posted - 12 Dec 2003 : 15:59:14
I havent seen anything in 3rd edition about the Tarrasque armor but i will have to double check
The thing is, if it is in greyhawk its just a different plane, so it could be pulled from that plane to another, FR as an example. Or another could be created in FR. Hmmm.....oii oii idea idea. if there were two different tarrasques on different planes, one could be Male the other Female they mate and create a new kind of terror on the plane their on.
They arent that hard if you know how to take them down. |
| eilinel |
Posted - 12 Dec 2003 : 12:59:21
i don't remember anything about the Tarrasque in FR.
but its quite all right, its a specific monster of GreyHawk, so i would let it there. its something which could add some fun, sure, but there is enough such things in FR. and i don't see where and above all when u could put it in FR's History.
no, i would let it there.
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| eilinel |
Posted - 12 Dec 2003 : 12:54:31
i remember u could make a +5 full plate armor and a +5 large shield with the Tarrasque's hide in the 2nd edition.
any idea about new rules?
since u can also enchant this armor as a normal one, it could be pretty much powerful... what do u think? |
| Trafaldi |
Posted - 11 Nov 2003 : 02:06:23
I was pondering recently, is there any reference to the mighty tarrasque in any realm scroll?
And if not do you think there should be. |
| Trafaldi |
Posted - 23 Oct 2003 : 00:40:06
I was dming a game and we started late at night and i wasn't up for a storyline so i threw them in an arena and the audience was the gods. well i put them against various baddies but i finally threw them against a Tarrasque. The characters were a satyr bard lvl 20. and a aasimar druid lvl 20. The bard was the ones that distracted the tarrasque by using perfect image and song of discord and when the druid has the ability to cast spells as a free action and has maximize spell call lighting storm. i couldnt really do anything i was impressed by their injinuety. |
| Arion Elenim |
Posted - 22 Oct 2003 : 19:26:19
An EXTREMELY fun session came about when our DM decided that we needed to "spar" the Terrasque outside of the storyline as a warm-up for gaming. He put the nasty SOB inside of a cave that would immediately True Resurrect PCs who died there. The end result was that we discovered it took an average of fifteen deaths per 10th level character before the Terrasque was finally killed (the Terrasque was guarding a Wish scroll - convenient, yes?  )
Anyway, while not a drop of XP was rewarded for the experience, it was really a blast to do a warm-up of "kick down the door" with the nastiest nasty in the Realms... |
| Trafaldi |
Posted - 22 Oct 2003 : 17:40:21
ok well ill say something then I have a story for know. I know someone that was in a party and he was a high enough level cleric he could summon a great gold wyrm, a feat in itself, Well in a very large tower they woke up a tarrasque. They ran others stayed to fight most ran though. all got devoured except the cleric who summoned the great gold wyrm. The dragon died quickly, but why that happened the cleric opened a portal and stepped through well the tarrasque stuck its head through. the cleric set its head aflame and the tarrasque pulled its head out burnt badly. a few seconds later it stuck its head back through completely healed. the cleric closed the portal on his head and got out alive. |
