Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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i plan on fighting a tarrasque in the near future and my plan is to shoot it with a ballista bolt made of adamantine that my befriended mimic has shifted to then once it pierces the skin, then have the mimic shift into liquid nitrogen to kill it but I don't know if the adamantine bolt can pierce the tarrasque hide...
Do your characters even know what liquid nitrogen is?
yeah,one of my friends characters is a scientist (reincarnated)
Tarrasque has resistance to Piercing damage, so it would deal half the normal damage. An Adamantine Weapon doesn't have any inherent ability to overcome damage resistance.
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that does mean it would pierce the skin though, right (given i roll high enough)
Ok. A few things here:
A mimic doesn't actually become the item it is mimicking. From mimic page: "Imitative Predators. Mimics can alter their outward texture to resemble wood, stone, and other basic materials, and they have evolved to assume the appearance of objects that other creatures are likely to come into contact with." That's from the 5e Legacy version. For 5.5e, it states: "Shape-Shift. The mimic shape-shifts to resemble a Medium or Small object while retaining its game statistics" So in either case, it does not actually become an Adamantine Ballista Bolt.
Secondly, "Liquid Nitrogen" is not an "object". Therefore the mimic cannot resemble Liquid Nitrogen at all. And even if it did, it wouldn't have the properties of Liquid Nitrogen, it would just appear as a liquid that immediately sublimates into a gas. So...the whole "mimic one-shotting a Tarrasque" is not going to work, at least not this way.
Could an Adamantine Ballista Bolt damage a tarrasque? I think so. It appears to just have resistance to Piercing damage, so I can't see why it wouldn't take damage from it. So sure, it could pierce the hide.
But even if we assume the bolt immediately turns into actual liquid nitrogen, all that would happen is the area that was impacted would immediately take a good amount of cold damage, but not 697 HP worth of cold damage. Prismatic Wall is a 9th Level spell, and only does 10d6 cold damage. Prismatic Spray does 12d6 as a Level 7 spell. I wouldn't say anything would likely do more cold damage than that in one turn.
There is nothing special about a Tarrasque that prevents things from piercing its skin. It has a high AC and takes half damage from bludgeoning/piercing/slashing sources, but harming it does not require any special materials or weapons.
That said, I would agree with MaximusArael020 that it is not possible for a mimic to shape-shift into liquid nitrogen in a way that would be helpful in this situation.
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our alchemist is a homebrew so i have a few potions that allow the mimic to perfectly mimic a substance and have all the properties of said substance. another potion allowing it to turn into any state of matter.
Interesting.
In that case, the last part of my post applies, when looking at how much damage it might do.
If it can take on the properties of any substance and state of matter, then I bet turning it into neutron star material would probably one-shot the tarrasque.
my DM would execute me lol
Will those potions let the mimic take on the properties of a Sphere of Annihilation? Because that should do it.
I mean, if we're in the realm of Calvinball rules, sure, why wouldn't it work?
This is 100% something only your DM can actually answer.
Yeah, this is well outside what a RAW discussion can answer. If your DM is up for it, this will work. If they aren't onboard with it, it won't.