Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the tarrasque fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The tarrasque has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Reflective Carapace. Any time the tarrasque is targeted by a magic missile spell, a line spell, or a spell that requires a ranged attack roll, roll a d6. On a 1 to 5, the tarrasque is unaffected. On a 6, the tarrasque is unaffected, and the effect is reflected back at the caster as though it originated from the tarrasque, turning the caster into the target.
Siege Monster. The tarrasque deals double damage to objects and structures.
Multiattack. The tarrasque can use its Frightful Presence. It then makes five attacks: one with its bite, two with its claws, one with its horns, and one with its tail. It can use its Swallow instead of its bite.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +19 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 36 (4d12 + 10) piercing damage. If the target is a creature, it is grappled (escape DC 20). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the tarrasque can’t bite another target.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +19 to hit, reach 15ft., one target. Hit: 28 (4d8 + 10) slashing damage.
Horns. Melee Weapon Attack: +19 to hit, reach 10ft., one target. Hit: 32 (4d10 + 10) piercing damage.
Tail. Melee Weapon Attack: +19 to hit, reach 20ft., one target. Hit: 24 (4d6 + 10) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 20 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.
Frightful Presence. Each creature of the tarrasque’s choice within 120 feet of it and aware of it must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, with disadvantage if the tarrasque is within line of sight, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature’s saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to the tarrasque’s Frightful Presence for the next 24 hours.
Swallow. The tarrasque makes one bite attack against a Large or smaller creature it is grappling. If the attack hits, the target takes the bite’s damage, the target is swallowed, and the grapple ends. While swallowed, the creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the tarrasque, and it takes 56 (16d6) acid damage at the start of each of the tarrasque’s turns.
If the tarrasque takes 60 damage or more on a single turn from a creature inside it, the tarrasque must succeed on a DC 20 Constitution saving throw at the end of that turn or regurgitate all swallowed creatures, which fall prone in a space within 10 feet of the tarrasque. If the tarrasque dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse by using 30 feet of movement, exiting prone.
The tarrasque can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The tarrasque regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Attack. The tarrasque makes one claw attack or tail attack.
Move. The tarrasque moves up to half its speed.
Chomp (Costs 2 Actions). The tarrasque makes one bite attack or uses its Swallow.
CR 30 my muscular buttocks. Any fresh group of PCs over level 10 could down this thing in a matter of 3-5 rounds unless you're running a low-magic campaign where practically no one has magic weapons, armor, and equipment.
It needs to be restored to its rightful "king of beasts" status from 3E by giving it back its Damage Reduction of 15 points off the top of each hit (or damage resistance to magical weapons), its triple damage critical, its reflection of ALL rays, lines, and cones whether an attack roll is needed or not, and its Regeneration ability, which includes healing 40 hp per round, immunity to diseases, bleeding wounds, and the requirement that you have to wish it to stay dead.
Of course, everyone in my campaign thinks that 5E CRs are way too easy. I've sent groups of 6 PCs up against equal numbers of monsters with CRs 2 to 3 times their level and not one PC died.
the best thing for every dnd
My campaign had a tpk because of this thing, TWICE!
There is something wrong with our DM then, we had 3 at once lol
It can move up 100 feet a round without dashing. Mobility is not an issue.
Well...This is when you want to TPK at the middle of a campaign
my party of level 7s in my one shot who defeated a bunch of cr 8 monsters: how did we survive that but i think we can win any fight and monster you throw at us
me the dm who just introduced god and he is going to ask you to defeat a cr 30 monster: *begins smiling*
my party: why are you smiling?
... dms are more powerful than any monster
yes?
good thing i made a few
how do you tpk twice (did you die but god decided to spare you and then you died a second time)
Used this against my party but lowered the health and AC. Super fun to watch them struggle.
What a shame, they really nerfed it. This is nothing but laughing stock for a well-built level 14 party, yet alone 20.
I got my PCs to defeat it using jumblelaya, the food.
They were at level 3
I'm dying RN XD
Just saw a reel piecing together what it means when animals have spikes on their backs. In reality it is to protect them from predators. More specifically to prevent from being swallowed whole. Wtf can swallow this beast?!
Sounds a bit like overkill, to me. 7 level 20 players, all with a +3? Jesus, man, I’ve had a group of 4 level 12 min maxers take on my homebrewed monster with 700 HP, and not a single one of them died. I’ve got another group of 4 at level 10 who just took down an ancient green dragon with a single party casualty.
I mean, even PCs with a +10 to hit still only have a 40% chance to even damage this thing with a martial weapon. A level 10 PC with a +3 weapon then only has a 55% chance of heading which is not great odds when this is something that you desperately need to die ASAP and not let live.
Not sure what kind of homebrew weapons the PCs in your games have that give more than a +3 bonus but I think it's fair to say that this thing definitely deserves its CR 30 rating.
The main difference here would be if the players were knowingly going into fight a tarasque they could appropriately set themselves up in an advantageous position to cheese the tarasque. But I think the intention for any challenge rating of a monster is that for the most part a party does not know what they're going to be fighting ahead of time and don't have meta knowledge of its mechanics
imagine he had a breath weapon
YOU CAN TAME THIS AT LEVEL 1?!?!?!?
According to me (bad) calculations, WoTC calculated this thing's CR wrong, it's actually 29.