Just watched a tiktok pointing out that based off the position of the eyes ( front for predators, sides for prey) the tarrasque is a prey animal. What would be the predator that hunts it beyond humanoids?
But in all seriousness, there’s nothing in the lore (Forgotten Realms, at least) supporting the idea of a tarrasque hunter. It’s just a tiktok farming for clicks by pointing out a discrepancy in the art.
As the DM, you’re certainly free to homebrew whatever you’d like to support the concept. But in 5e, the tarrasque is really as strong as things get. CR 30 is the top of the food chain.
Just watched a tiktok pointing out that based off the position of the eyes ( front for predators, sides for prey) the tarrasque is a prey animal.
Despite that being a popular belief, that's not actually a hard and fast rule in biology. Most reptiles, including many therapod dinosaurs, had eyes located more toward the sides of their head than their front simply due to the shape of their heads. Same goes for whales- all whales are predators, but their eyes are located on the sides of their head and it's physically impossible for them to look at something with both eyes at the same time. There are also plenty of "prey" animals with eyes that face forward. All primates, for example, have forward facing eyes because the first primates were tree-dwelling animals that needed to accurately be able to judge distances when leaping from branch to branch.
Just watched a tiktok pointing out that based off the position of the eyes ( front for predators, sides for prey) the tarrasque is a prey animal. What would be the predator that hunts it beyond humanoids?
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But in all seriousness, there’s nothing in the lore (Forgotten Realms, at least) supporting the idea of a tarrasque hunter. It’s just a tiktok farming for clicks by pointing out a discrepancy in the art.
As the DM, you’re certainly free to homebrew whatever you’d like to support the concept. But in 5e, the tarrasque is really as strong as things get. CR 30 is the top of the food chain.
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Despite that being a popular belief, that's not actually a hard and fast rule in biology. Most reptiles, including many therapod dinosaurs, had eyes located more toward the sides of their head than their front simply due to the shape of their heads. Same goes for whales- all whales are predators, but their eyes are located on the sides of their head and it's physically impossible for them to look at something with both eyes at the same time. There are also plenty of "prey" animals with eyes that face forward. All primates, for example, have forward facing eyes because the first primates were tree-dwelling animals that needed to accurately be able to judge distances when leaping from branch to branch.
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"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Also tarrasque are generally presented as created beings, so the arrangement of their features has little to nothing to do with evolutionary trends.
Mimics. Huge colonies of them disguise themselves as entire cities and wait for the tarrasque to rampage into the center of town, then they swarm.
Gelatinous cubes that stack themselves into bigger gelatinous cubes, Lego-style.
Also, kobolds. They have their ways.
Medium humanoid (human), lawful neutral