Tarrasque

me to!

lots of folks saying you can just stay out of reach of it and pepper it with arrows - if you WANT to be at Disadvantage when shooting with a longbow - then yes, you are able to MAYBE kill it from range - otherwise you are at the exact range that it can hit you with its breath weapon, or closer.

so, you give a lvl 1 party some OP gear and then make them fight one

I head cannon it as a Bullette grows into the new tarrasque

All you need to do, to easily kill it, is have at least 2 spell casters in your party. 

Method one, have one dude cast Prismatic Wall, horizontal, above Terrasque, then have other dude cast Reverse Gravity. The Terrasque will go through all layers, and if you can cancel Reverse Gravity before last layer(Banishment), it will fall through all of them again. Repeat endlessly for maximum damage. (Eventually it will fail some saving throws)

Method two, have a spellcaster cast force cage on the Terrasque, then have another dude cast Sickening Radiance. The creature will eventually fail, ~50 to 100 rounds later.

Method 3, have a dude Polymorph into Gargantuan or Huge sea creature, then have the spellcaster cast Gate or Plane Shift to a lake, sea, or ocean. The Polymorphed player should grapple and hold the Terrasque under ocean or sea. Drowning, eventually.

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To people who say, "This is disappointing because you can just fly 150 ft above it and shoot down until it evidentially dies or retreats underground"

Imagine buying a high quality car and then looking through it's anatomy to look for the easiest way to destroy it, destroy it in the easiest way possible, and then complain about how easy it was to destroy. You are doing this to yourself.

If you fight this thing the way you are suppose to fight it, it will be hard and probably have fun. If you chose to cheese it, you shouldn't complain about how cheesable it is. With the old one, sure, it was possible to accidently start cheesing it but this one you have to try.

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I'm confused at the complaints:

people say that this guy has regen, but i don't see it in the legacy stat block, and i agree the horn attack is a bit of a loss, plus a long ranged attack would probably be a good idea.

If anything, the breath weapon just needs a larger range, the larges in the game cuz is freaking DND'S GODZILLA.

 In older editions the Tarrasque had regeneration (40hit points in 3e) as one of it's features. Also because of the fact that the Tarrasque has not historically had any ranged attacks the complaints about the Tarrasque being able to be defeated by a flying creature(s) with a bow has also been true for a long time. (the only rider being that the flying creature just needs to beat the regeneration healing on average when dealing damage over however many hundreds of rounds it takes to kill the beast.)

Objectively, the 2024 Tarrasque is an improvement over the 2014 version in every way.

New AoE option with good range for flying creatures within the vicinity, A large speed increase and a burrow speed to hide from pesky archers (or siege weapons), new legendary action that let's it break concentration on casters for a legendary action and slow the by knocking them prone (also knocks down any flier who were too close, more efficient legendary action to let it deal more damage at the same time as moving.

It is a stronger monster than before by every metric. But there are of course some cheese builds at level one where you could fly 155 feet high and dip into 150 feet and start shooting the beast for hundreds of rounds in order to hit on a critical strike and deal (2d8+5)/2 piercing damage, without the Tarrasque being able to hit you back with anything. That would require the Tarrasque to not just decide to go underground for a 8 hour wait, so that you come down for a long rest and into the reach of it's chomp.

 https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/5205002-mother-tarrasque 

I made this before seeing your response, to try and improve the tarrasque using an old mythic encounters book I got. What do you think?

 That link just leads to an error page

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All you need to do, to easily kill it, is have at least 2 spell casters in your party. 

Method one, have one dude cast Prismatic Wall, horizontal, above Terrasque, then have other dude cast Reverse Gravity. The Terrasque will go through all layers, and if you can cancel Reverse Gravity before last layer(Banishment), it will fall through all of them again. Repeat endlessly for maximum damage. (Eventually it will fail some saving throws)

Method two, have a spellcaster cast force cage on the Terrasque, then have another dude cast Sickening Radiance. The creature will eventually fail, ~50 to 100 rounds later.

Method 3, have a dude Polymorph into Gargantuan or Huge sea creature, then have the spellcaster cast Gate or Plane Shift to a lake, sea, or ocean. The Polymorphed player should grapple and hold the Terrasque under ocean or sea. Drowning, eventually.

 

 

 If you have spell slots for prismatic wall, just cast wish to one-shot the monster.

I like the new tarrasque a lot. it feels much more dangerous but i would have liked better range options 

I mean, why not give it a buffed version of earthquake, along with a new attack and give it spellcasting, and a new trait:

 Trait: Rooted in place: the Tarrasque is unable to be planeshifted, unless it is prone or incapacitated. It is unaffected by any movement spells, such as Reverse gravity. It also benefits from the Immutable form trait.

Breath of the ancients: All creatures within a 500-foot cone have to make a DC 28 Dexterity saving throw or take 18d10 force damage, or half as much on a successful save.

Spellcasting, requiring no material components: Spellcasting (Spell save DC 20)

At will: Earthbind (500 feet instead of 300 feet),  Earth Tremor (level 9 version)

4/Day: Earthquake

Or, if you want, replace the reaction with breath of the ancients or a 500 foot version of thunderous bellow.

Now this feels like an insane boss monster that is more immune to cheeses and such!

Also, maybe make it so that if a creature (gargantuan only) attacks it from behind, it is impaled on the spikes and takes 12d8 damage, as the spikes are sharp.

Also, give it a new attack:

Gore: The tarrasque stabs forward with its two large horns, and any creature (sizes huge or larger) takes 12d10 damage.

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Primal Tarrasque

Gargantuan Monstrosity (Titan), Unaligned

AC 26    Initiative +18 (28)

HP 797 (34d20 + 440)

Speed 90 ft., Burrow 80 ft., Climb 80 ft.

		Mod	Save
STR	30	+10	+10
DEX	11	+0	+9
CON	30	+10	+10

		Mod	Save
INT	3	−4	+5
WIS	11	+0	+9
CHA	11	+0	+9

Skills Perception +9

Resistances Bludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing

Immunities Fire, Poison; Charmed, Deafened, Frightened, Paralyzed, Poisoned

Senses Blindsight 120 ft., Tremorsense 300 ft.; Passive Perception 19

Languages None

CR 30 (XP 155,000; PB +9)

Traits

Legendary Resistance (6/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. If the tarrasque is targeted by a Magic Missile spell or a spell that requires a ranged attack roll, roll 1d6. On a 1–5, the tarrasque is unaffected. On a 6, the tarrasque is unaffected and reflects the spell, turning the caster into the target.

Siege Monster. The tarrasque deals double damage to objects and structures.

Primal Awakening. When the Primal tarrasque would drop to 0 hit points, it regains 497 hit points, gains resistance to fire, cold, poison, lightning, and acid damage. It also gains the primeval breath attack, and begins healing 40 hit points per turn. If it heals to 750 hit points, it loses its mythic actions and primal awakening abilities until it finishes a long rest.

Immutable form. This monster cannot be shape-shifted into anything

Titanic weight. This monster cannot be teleported, have gravity reversed on it, or be plane shifted, unless it is prone.

 

Actions

Multiattack. The tarrasque makes one Bite attack and three other attacks, using Claw or Tail in any combination.

Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +19, reach 15 ft. Hit: 36 (4d12 + 10) Piercing damage, and the target has the Grappled condition (escape DC 20). Until the grapple ends, the target has the Restrained condition and can’t teleport.

Claw. Melee Attack Roll: +19, reach 15 ft. Hit: 28 (4d8 + 10) Slashing damage.

Tail. Melee Attack Roll: +19, reach 30 ft. Hit: 23 (3d8 + 10) Bludgeoning damage. If the target is a Huge or smaller creature, it has the Prone condition.

Thunderous Bellow (Recharge 5–6). Constitution Saving Throw: DC 27, each creature and each object that isn’t being worn or carried in a 150-foot Cone. Failure: 78 (12d12) Thunder damage, and the target has the Deafened and Frightened conditions until the end of its next turn. Success: Half damage only.

Primeval Breath (Recharge 4-6). Once the Tarrasque has undergone primal awakening, it is able to use this attack. Dexterity saving throw: DC 29, each creature in a 500 foot cone. Failure: 84 (14d12) Acid, cold, lightning, fire, and poison damage. Success: Half damage only. Failure or Success: The creature begins burning (fire breath), has it's speed halved (cold breath only), Takes an additional D12 damage (acid breath only), or becomes Poisoned (Poison breath only). 

Tremor (Recharge 6). The tarrasque can use Earth tremor, at level 5, up to five times, or replace three uses with Earthquake. 

Bonus Actions

Swallow. Strength Saving Throw: DC 27, one Large or smaller creature Grappled by the tarrasque (it can have up to six creatures swallowed at a time). Failure: The target is swallowed, and the Grappled condition ends. A swallowed creature has the Blinded and Restrained conditions and can’t teleport, 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, each of which falls in a space within 10 feet of the tarrasque and has the Prone condition. If the tarrasque dies, any swallowed creature no longer has the Restrained condition and can escape from the corpse using 20 feet of movement, exiting Prone.

Earthbind. All creatures within a 700 foot sphere that can fly and are not allied with the tarrasque are under the effects of the Earthbind spell, but are forced to the ground immediately, ignoring all types of ways to soften falling. All creatures take an additional d4 bludgeoning damage per 5 feet they were off the ground.

Legendary Actions

Legendary Action Uses: 3. Immediately after another creature’s turn, the tarrasque can expend a use to take one of the following actions. The tarrasque regains all expended uses at the start of each of its turns.

Onslaught. The tarrasque moves up to half its Speed, and it makes one Claw or Tail attack.

World-Shaking Movement. The tarrasque moves up to its Speed. At the end of this movement, the tarrasque creates an instantaneous shock wave in a 60-foot Emanation originating from itself. Creatures in that area lose Concentration and, if Medium or smaller, have the Prone condition. The tarrasque can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn.

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Mythic Action Uses: 3. Immediately after another creature’s turn, the tarrasque can expend a use to take one of the following actions. The tarrasque regains all expended uses at the start of each of its turns.

Wrath of the elements . The tarrasque takes one primeval breath action.

Elemental Shockwave (Costs 2 Actions). The tarrasque flourishes with the power of the elemental planes.  All creatures (sizes huge or smaller) within a 300 foot sphere are knocked prone, and take 56 (28d4) cold, fire, acid, poison, and lightning damage (to total this amount, not that much damage from this type). All structures within this range take double amount of bludgeoning damage, and begin burning. This action cannot be used again until the start of the tarrasque's turn.

 See, this is an actually deadly boss monster, that forces you to just not straight up cheese it, but to actually fight it.

Everyone is saying that the tarrasque can be cheesed, but say you have a level 20 aarakocra fighter with a +3 longbow and 20 dexterity. They'll still need a 9 to hit (25 - 3 - 11) and be attacking with disadvantage). Whenever they hit, they'll only deal 6 damage, so that's 24 damage per round, assuming all attacks hit (which won't happen multiple rounds in a row unless you're very lucky). The tarrasque has almost 700 hp. If you really think you can cheese it, give it a ranged attack with 600+ maximum range (or just do it because you can, if you realize you can't cheese it).

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 Another OP player build: I Wish the Tarrasque were gone.

 The humble magic resistance and legendary resistance. But no seriously, nowhere does it say Wish can destroy any monster, it doesn’t state it and no dm worth their salt would allow you to cheese an encounter just because you spent a 9th level spell on it, if Meteor Swarm can’t destroy something, then Wish certainly ain’t.

I was making a rhetorical point.

But since we're digging into it—you are incorrect. You assert that Wish can only defeat enemies that can be defeated by Meteor Swarm, but the Rules do not require that. Wish is a way to "cheese an encounter" as you put it, and the contours of its abilities are explicitly detailed in the spell's description. The spell reads, "You may wish for something not included in any of the other effects." Wishing for the Tarrasque to be gone is "something not included in [the] other effects." The only mandatory limit on the Wish spell is as follows, "If your wish would undo the multiverse itself, threaten the City of Sigil, or affect the Lady of Pain in any way, you see an image of her in your mind for a moment; she shakes her head, and your wish fails." The Tarrasque is not mentioned there.

"[N]o [DM] worth their salt would allow . . . " has no bearing on whether or not the Wish spell can defeat the Tarrasque. You cannot police other tables, and the rules of the Wish spell explicitly leaves the result of the Wish to the DM to determine. A DM could rule that the Wish has no effect, or a DM could give effect to the player's Wish. Either way, you mischaracterize the nature of Wish and presuppose that all DMs will share your perspective that defeating the Tarrasque via the Wish spell simply cannot be allowed. Even if most DMs share your position, you cannot universalize your belief or present it as an actual limitation of the spell.

Also, Legendary Resistance and Magic Resistance have no effect on the Wish spell.

 Gods are much stronger than characters (even the aspect of Bahamut or Tiamat is CR 30 with 2 lives), so if a god would care that your character is casting wish, they can try to stop it. A god would probably care if you're destroying their siege weapon. Wish isn't meant to imbalance the game. Any DM wouldn't let you one-shot the final boss with one spell.

I really like these additions.  As written, it doesn't seem quite as epic as previous editions.  I remember something about needing a Wish spell to be able to hurt it and another one to make sure it doesn't get back up once you take it down.  Also spell immunities and such.  Hmmm, worth looking into a bit more.

"You're saying I should throw WHAT at my Level 5 party?!?!"