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Fingal
Seeker
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 Posted - 21 Jun 2010 : 21:22:35
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Originally posted by Nicolai Withander
If I were hasted I could take it out in one round!!! Do I need to point out how powerful my mage is!!!
Lol! Given what I've read of your adventures so far, it would be even more impressive if you used some of your mad magical potency to enslave the beast before riding it into battle against a god! Now that would be a story to tell! |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 21 Jun 2010 : 21:27:34
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The French stole it 
It is a Vietnamese monster
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Originally posted by althen artren
ooooooh cold, so cold.
You are right...
There was absolutely no need to insult The Terrasque in that fashion... |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Elfinblade
Senior Scribe
Norway
377 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jun 2010 : 21:55:49
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Originally posted by Markustay
I'm fairly certain my Ex was Earth's Terrasque.
Hahaha! In fact, i too am aware of certain ex's who could fit that description  |
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Basil the Geek
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 21 Jun 2010 : 22:09:02
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I once used the Terasque as the single male breeder in a “Reign of Fire” sort of fantasy apocalypse campaign about a couple of decades ago using 2e with the more traditional dragons being females and civilizations hanging by a thread during the eating and mating swarm. It was one intensely bloody and heroic campaign and they did eventually kill the beast before it disappeared below the earth to sleep another cycle.
All this talk makes me want to run that again, LOL.
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woodwwad
Learned Scribe
USA
267 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jun 2010 : 22:29:00
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Originally posted by Arion Elenim
A few questions concerning arguably the most powerful monster in existence....
First, anyone have any theories on its origin?
Secondly, how does everyone feel about the terrasque (besides terrified, of course)...? Do we like him (it) or not?
And thirdly, has anyone ever gamed a party that ran across and defeated the Terrasque fairly (as in no DM assistance or cheating)?
Just curious...
I've used this monster twice. It was used in the way it should be, as a force of nature akin to a natural disaster. The pcs saw it from a vast distance way & of course made sure to get far, far away from it. I think fighting & killing it, is the kind of thing that smacks of booty high school games. It is a creature that should IMO only be used as a plot device. When I used it, I used it as the child of a god & an elemental king of the earth. |
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Nicolai Withander
Master of Realmslore
Denmark
1093 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jun 2010 : 23:19:55
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Originally posted by Fingal
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Originally posted by Nicolai Withander
If I were hasted I could take it out in one round!!! Do I need to point out how powerful my mage is!!!
Lol! Given what I've read of your adventures so far, it would be even more impressive if you used some of your mad magical potency to enslave the beast before riding it into battle against a god! Now that would be a story to tell!
Thats a hell of an idear... Ill remember that one, if I ever face the big guy! |
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Corwyn the Errant
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 22 Jun 2010 : 02:06:17
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I've never used the big guy in my FR games, but if I ever do, I'll probably make him a legacy of the sarrukh, a weapon of mass destruction used in wars with the other Creator Races. One that, mayhap, escaped even their control. One that, even millenia later, awakens every dozen centuries or so to hunt down the last hidden remnants of it's former masters...
Hmm...ideas, ideas... :) |
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althen artren
Senior Scribe
USA
780 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jun 2010 : 21:54:47
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"You are right...
There was absolutely no need to insult The Terrasque in that fashion..."
BWHA HA HA HA HA HA HA |
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Dracons
Learned Scribe
USA
299 Posts |
Posted - 25 Jun 2010 : 04:24:44
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I'ved used the tarrasque a few times in my game. Mostly as background flavor. There was a time when they found a deep cave while running from a really pissed off great wyrm dragon who's child was slain. (Yeah, took the idea from OOTS, however it wasn't the fact their child was slain, it was because the party took all the treasure). While in the cave it was very warm at points. They found undead that would attack them. A few times they found books telling of a great hunger. They swam in a deep ocean of blood that carried evil white ghosts that attacked them. Eventally they realized that they were inside the Tarrasque. (I made it a slight change in the fact the tarrasque changes whatever enters it's mouth into smaller parts, thus being able to swallow far more. It's curse. It eats and eats because it cannot feel full due to everything shrinking. As such, people do survive for a small bit. The digistive ezymeze take a while to digist.
That being said, in my FR, the Tarrasque is a ex mount of Malar. Talos stole it and made it so it can never be found by Malar. Talos felt that tarrasque was more fitting a servent for him then Malar. Malar eventally just forgot it. |
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froglegg
Learned Scribe
317 Posts |
Posted - 26 Jun 2010 : 03:26:49
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In my Realms the Terrasque is, well he is the Godzilla of the world. A force of nature if you will. Not good, not evil he just is. In the campaign in which he appeared the Realms Lore was this. In every elven generation a female is chosen by Silvanus or Chauntea or maybe by the primal power of Abeir-Toril it's self. Sages so far have not been able to find out for sure and the Terrasque is not telling. It is rumored that she can understand the beast and is able to talk with it some how, and to also use her voice to sing soothing and calming words to still the creature. While she can not control the Terrasque she can suggest to it to take a certain course of action and the creature will normally go along. But it has a mind of it's own and from time to time it will still do what ever comes to mind regardless of what has been suggested by the (Xymor^zorquan which is Draconic also known as Old high wyrm and is best translated as simply this "My guide"). The Terrasque will never hurt or attack the guide ever. There is more lore but that will have to wait till later. Any how to make a long story short the heros had to find her before the zent's because Manshoon was thinking that the guide could be used as some kind of weapon for the Zhentarim. That was some good gaming!
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Long live Alias and Dragonbait! Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb the Realms need you more then ever!
On my word as a sage nothing within these pages is false, but not all of it may prove to be true. - Elminster of Shadowdale
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froglegg
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 26 Jun 2010 : 19:29:46
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Originally posted by froglegg
In my Realms the Terrasque is, well he is the Godzilla of the world. A force of nature if you will. Not good, not evil he just is. In the campaign in which he appeared the Realms Lore was this. In every elven generation a female is chosen by Silvanus or Chauntea or maybe by the primal power of Abeir-Toril it's self. Sages so far have not been able to find out for sure and the Terrasque is not telling. It is rumored that she can understand the beast and is able to talk with it some how, and to also use her voice to sing soothing and calming words to still the creature. While she can not control the Terrasque she can suggest to it to take a certain course of action and the creature will normally go along. But it has a mind of it's own and from time to time it will still do what ever comes to mind regardless of what has been suggested by the (Xymor^zorquan which is Draconic also known as Old high wyrm and is best translated as simply this "My guide"). The Terrasque will never hurt or attack the guide ever. There is more lore but that will have to wait till later. Any how to make a long story short the heros had to find her before the zent's because Manshoon was thinking that the guide could be used as some kind of weapon for the Zhentarim. That was some good gaming!
John
He has come along ways since 1st edition. 
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Long live Alias and Dragonbait! Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb the Realms need you more then ever!
On my word as a sage nothing within these pages is false, but not all of it may prove to be true. - Elminster of Shadowdale
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Saxmilian
Learned Scribe
USA
157 Posts |
Posted - 27 Jun 2010 : 13:50:48
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It was ridden into battle by a lich in the Forggotten Realms Comic #8. It was summoned with a "oddly-shaped staff" slaying multiple dragons. My favorite part (other than when the high-level mage pelts it with magic missiles that refelct back upon himself then curses himself for forgewtting that magic is damn-near useless against the creatures" is on Page 6 when Elminster and Omen are scrying the battle, they name the creature a Tarrasque and then say, "your in luck. There's only ONE of them."
SPOILER-- by and by, the creature is never really killed. When the lich is "killed" the Terrasque disappears. One character notes "one cannto slay a Tarrasque only send it back to its native land."
Personally, I've been tempted to throw that staff out there just to see what (and who) whould use it, lol |
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