Exploring Dungeons and Dragons: The Tarrasque
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You know... There's something about Tarrasques that's always made me ponder something.
Spikes and hardened carapaces on animals usually are primary defenses against predators.
Bigger. Predators.
Fucking terrifying right?
Makes sense, since appearantly they are peaceful rock-munchers on their home planet.
There's always a bigger fish
Dear God.......
Godzilla, King Ghidora, Rodan.
"Consuming for the purpose of going back into hibernation."
So it's a Snorlax.
When Snorlax mega evolves
@Oh Dahng boi also kinda like the deviljho of monster hunter minus the napping part.
LOL
except for the lazy part it's quiet more active than a snorlax.
@@123123s3 I think that's a better exsample.
Additionally, it's said that the planet with the Tarrasque actually has them as docile lithovores...something about the atmosphere of other worlds drives them psychotic.
so kind of like Namor the Submariner, if he spends too much time on land or in water his oxygen gets imbalanced and he goes nuts.
Its nitrogen. The Tarrasque as it is most commonly known is so crazy because it has THE BENDS
whats a "lithovore"? Google says nothing
@@TheTsugnawmi2010 Lithovore is derived from the word lithotrope - this word is used to classify prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms that break down and consume matter that lacks carbon molecules (meaning inorganic matter like rocks)
@@TheTsugnawmi2010 Basically means it lives off of eating rocks, minerals and ore
Fun fact: the acid in a tarrasques stomach is often called "the acid that melts gods"
Aqua Regis aka one of the most acidic compounds that can be easily manufactured aka the reason you won't be in need of a burial.
And that's only it's 2nd stomach, it's 1st is basically a giant garbage disposal and it's 3rd is an incinerator.
I am 90% sure they don't have an anus because nothing makes to the end.
I use this to explain why you can't crawl up it's butt to kill it from the inside.
Sorry I went into a rant.
@@beastwarsFTW I'll remember this
*cue the gods getting high off their tits on it
@@theradioactiveplayer3461 I mean gods have stat sheets so they can in theory be killed
Aaah old Tarry.
Fun fact, back in 2nd Edition's 'Spelljammer' expansion, Think DnD in SPACE, there was an entire planet of these guys. Even more hilarous, in their natural habitat according to Spelljammer, they're docile lithovores. As in, they subsist entirely on rocks. Why is 'Old Tarry' as he most popularly known omnivorous and savage? Nitrogen doesn't exist in the atmosphere of their natural world, when they breathe that stuff in it collects in certain glands in their bodies, supercharging their natural regeneration, and driving them BATSHIT INSANE.
Starfinder Plot Incoming
Kind of like a rampaging Saiyan during a full moon?
A digestive system of that strength would make sense in a species made for mineral extraction. I would almost guess their shed scales were collected from said planet by the engineers of that species (if they were artificial), and some idiot misplaced a shipment of a young bull
Nitrogen, son.
Rock biter be like
The Tarrasque has both side-facing eyes and spines, which are features of prey animals, and spines specifically are selected for to prevent an animal from being eaten whole.
Imagine the being the Tarrasque implies as a predator.
Calvinasaurus from Calvin And Hobbes
Ever heard of Quasar or Astral Dragons?
Maybe it's like Doomsday from Superman.
Every time something kills it it revives and adapts to it.
Oh, when you go into deeper dnd lore you get things that could destroy a tarasque without a second thought. However I dont have any names on me so the only ones I can remember are cronos, the devistation insects, and the prismatic/force dragons. They could all decimate the tarasque, as well as most gods(which could have also killed the tarasque)
By the way, this isn't cannon in any way but this is as strong as creatures can get in dnd
www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Sempiterne_the_Living_Quasar_(3.5e_Creature) that thing could kill every single being in hundreds or galaxies in a fraction of a millisecond by giving it the slightest thought
"The lich raised his endless undead army, not so he could take over the world, but because he knew that soon the tarrasque would awaken and he would use his army to sate it's hunger." - something I just came up with.
Pulling a Palpatine I see
That would make a good dnd story.
I like this
A.K.A “How the Lich was actually the hero”
@@jedediahcoulbourne1791 *if Palpatine was a good guy you mean?
Lord Blackwood fought this thing oh wait, wrong universe
Yeah I was thinking the same thing hahaha
Does this explains the origins of SCP 682
So did Able
@@jacobhuff3748 nah it was just a reference
*lord blackwood left the chat*
For an eternally long split-second I was terrified that I missed the weekend (as SCP videos show up Monday morning for me).
Our GM once let me survive being eaten by a tarasque since I rolled 3 Nat twenties in row
How did you get out?
William Sleight don’t ask
@@bigpigeon2384 how did you get out?
@@bigpigeon2384 ill give you a cool story about an encounter I had with a terrasque if you do.
@@veridiumundaunted7978 who said he ever got out ?
Tarrasque: this video
Summer Martha: *cracks knuckles*
*( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)*
Who would win?
A massive scaly lizard, indestructible to conventional harm and immune to many types of magics and effects
OR
One Clay boy
(Joke is that a clay golem can hypothetically solo a tarrasque due to acid immunity and being immune to nonmagical damage, which the tarrasque in 5e has no magical attacks, while having magical weapons itself)
GUYS I KNOW HOW TO CONTAIN 682
@@TheSexiestGoblin Yeah! Just throw 173 at it!
In the second edition it was stated that the Terrasque's teeth were like swords of sharpness. One could argue that would be a magical attack. Also, it being a magical beast makes it inherently magical and all it's attacks would be so, ala a Were-creature has the same defenses but can be hurt by other Were-creatures.
@@ciaphascain2807 Well they were talking about 5E, so that argument about 2E is null and void
@@anonimase4315 as a DM, no information is limited by the edition.
When I was a kid and my brothers/friends got me to play D&D I use to love going through all the Monster Manuals they collected throughout the years. The art and lore really fascinated me and the Tarrasque was one of the very few that really stood out to me of how terrifying it would be to come across one if it actually existed due to the sheer size and scaling of this colossal beast. This monster and (I had to look it up) the Hecatoncheires.
It's only like 21 metres. The thing is meant to be a Kaiju yet is tiny
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 Ahh I see. Perhaps my memory is mistaken than as it has been a a very long time since I looked at the D&D books but I had remembered it was considered a "colossal" from the Monster Manual I seen it from.
@@AbortedSocietyAki well in 5e its Gargantuan. The thing is tho that a gargantuan creature isn't necessarily... Gargantuan in 5e. The minimum size of a gargantuan creature in 5e is 20×20ft. That's 6 metres by 6 metres. This is large, certainly, but compared to Godzilla that's a toe. The Tarrasque is about thrice this, meaning its big and threatening but not the same way it is oft shown in art
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 pretty much anything without shapeshifting, spellcasting, or teleportation can be killed by a lone spellcaster of 14th level if it fits within a 20 x 20 foot Forcecage. Makes the single gargantuan monster vs party a breeze. Feelsbadman...
But I'm the DM, so I can just scale things up if I really want to challenge my players. ;)
I have been playing ever since second edition. I remember a friend talking about how another friend of theirs claimed they soloed the tarrasque, during a campaign none of us were participating in. Something about running backwards in boots of speed while using +5 returning and homing daggers.
About as believable from within the confines of the rules as this guy who claimed that he legitimately rolled 3d6 and came up with 18 for all six stats for his character, and when the DM challenged him, he rolled again in front of the DM and did the exact same thing with the DM's own dice.
So he rolled 18 for all of his stats twice. 12 times. I am drunk, and even now it still sounds stupid and reeks of BS.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to drink some more.
Honestly it is possible to solo one, they have 0 ranged capabilities. And are stupid. Archer with boots of flying could kill it by themselves. So if he rand fast enough theoretically he could fo it. Its much easier for non maguc classes to kill them unless you use acid
gideon & Jam, why you guys co-signing that fools bullshit about solo super monsters and that same personal was able to roll 3 6s with 3 d6s 6 times in a row with two separate sets of dice-
Unless a story like that ends with a guy than moving to Vegas and making a legendary fortune gambling with documentation that it happened, entertaining that story as having any validity is just being credulous
That was a neat story on it's own but the inclusion of drinking just fails it. Don't know why so many commenters feel the need to mention that they're drunk while posting 🤔
I've rolled 2 18s and a 17 before (using 4d6 so not as crazy) that character was probably the strongest character I didn't cheese. (I now am sworn to the point buy system even if I feel like my characters can be a bit to weak sometimes, you can't complain about my character if I didn't roll any dice and used a system that I can prove where all the points went to)
@@joelsf4857 cause their drinking 😂
The Tarrasque is tough, sure, but consider this: Tarrasque with a gun.
Then it'd just be Godzilla (mouth laser)
MECHA-TARRASQUE, with laser canons in place of the main horns on it's head
I think I heard a story about a tarrasque that ate some artifact that gave it sentience and magic capabilities. It promptly built a giant army and went on to conquer the world as a BBEG
@@ottoia9126 My favorite idea with terrasques that I ever had came from a story about a charging terrasque getting decapitated by a wizard closing a Gate spell around it's neck. That Gate was addressed to The Abyss.
The Abyss... likes to corrupt things, and spawns infinitely more demons from it's own energies as it requires.
Long story short:
Terrasque head with comically proportioned chicken legs growing out of it's brain stem.
@@ottoia9126 if it's the one I was thinking of, a lich Awakened it and taught it Levels in Wizard.
3.5 Wizard.
3.5 Wizard Tarrasque
I once had a villain put a collar of improved invisibility on one...
So basically the Dunwich Horror?
"Invincible until Regeneration" sounds like a certain SCP we all know
Considering the appearance of the tarrasque in some SPC tales and the uncanny similarities, I'd say it's fairly safe to say that 682 is the tarrasque in it's active state, and hit hasn't hibernated because it hasn't eaten enough
*It is* literally the 682 in the lord blackwood tales
@@goddamn7104 is it? I don't think it is, since they succeed in killing their "Tarrasque"
@@TheSexiestGoblin noo.... They manage to "obliterated" it for a while but it's coming back alive and rampaging again.
Also it's fighting Abel too after that
And also, it's said "you are disgust me" in french
Party: We need to beat this. Use your wish spell.
Wizard: Fine. I use wish.
Gm: What do you wish for?
Wizard: I wish the Terrasque is 1' tall with the same symmetrical properties it currently has. It will not have the same weight as it currently has but the mass of a 1' tall Terrasque. It's max height will be 1' tall and its length/width will be determinant on it's current symmetry. It will not cause any negative effects due to the loss of mass. I.e. no nuclear explosions, no sonic booms...none of that. Its hunger will not be based on it's current hunger, but that of a common chicken of 1' height. It will not need to hibernate. And that it was tame to me, and would listen perfectly and follow my commands. Also I'm specifying this specific terrasquein the off chance that you think I will leave a loophole that will make it so it effects a different universes terrasque.
GM: fine...you see a cloud appear and when the cloud disappears disappears you see a terrasque the size of a chicken. Congratulations you beat the terrasque and got a pet.
This is great
Sounds like 6 wishes to me but sure
@@lb4581 I just worded it like that due to how some gms love running the wish as a monkeys paw.
Player: I wish for the strongest sword in the universe.
Gm: K the strongest sword in the universe appears in your chest....you die.
@@raistlarn Honestly, that's your fault as a player, if you word it like that (really, no offense meant on my part). Wish's main feature is, that it can cast any spell Level 8 or lower. It also has some other effects listed and the second-to-last paragraph specifically states:
"You might be able to achieve something beyond the scope of the above examples. State your wish to the GM as precisely as possible. [....] For example, wishing that a villain were dead might propel you forward in time to a period when that villain is no longer alive, effectively removing you from the game. Similarly, wishing for a legendary magic item or artifact might instantly transport you to the presence of the item's current owner."
Always make 2 wishes at the same time . Make your wish then when the gm trys to pretend you made a bad wish then say I wish my intent on the first wish would come to pass. If it dosnt you shod get both wishes back
Meanwhile in another alternate universe, a certain maiden of Christ "tamed" the fearsome Tarrasque with her fist- *cough* I mean with her prayer.
Could you explain this please? Not sure what your referencing.
@@jacthing1 fate grand order st martha is a pro wrestler
I don’t know what your talking about, Martha said it herself, she’d never punch anything!
In the French story St. Martha tamed it with prayer and took it back to France, but the French people got scared and SOMEHOW killed it
@@jackbelmont4389 In Fate universe, she beat it to submission. Heck she even wacked it in her NP and "road roller'd" him in her summer version.
The Tarrasque is basically the D&D version of Doomsday from DC
or Godzilla
Or SCP-682
Or 682.
Pretty much invincible, regenerates quickly and can eat anything.
wait; 682 was based on the tarrasque, wasn't it?
@@trickster3696 Doomzilla :)
@@reichstein011 or a downscaled Galactus.
Ah I remember these bois fondly from my epic level 3.5 campaign. Summoning one or turning one on some enemies in battle is great fun
I play d&d 5e and I havent encountered a tarrasque yet because I play the mines of phandelver
@@KSofficial141 In this campaign it was just us being meta and having fun breaking the game. Our party was a dawrf cleric with so much AC and divine buffs you couldn't scratch him, a demilich with resistance to everything and a pocket dimension with his own religious following and I was an incorporeal shadow dancing assassin that was nigh impossible to hit with a dracolich companion for backup lol
Once it did, did it turn right around and ate the party?
@@johnconnor2572 Me and my dad and a few npcs were playing Lost Mines of Phandelver and dad was the DM and the player (we didnt have any friends at the time so we were Supreme Loners) and my character is a male Lizardfolk rogue named Xhuri and he trained himself to make modern guns from bones, and he was outcasted from his kind because of it, as he was accused of black magic. My dad played a male goliath that went unnamed (for a reason you'll find out right about.. Now) because the goliath's wife had died and he carved a symbol of a woman into a tree after ripping it apart, and putting spiked rings on it, and he had symbols painted on him that had wnchanted power, the symbols resembling power, pain, and magic.
@Michael S. For us gamers and wargamers it is
5:55 random cat meows, a Tarrasque in training.
Fought a "baby" Terrasque. Didn't go too well. Our party barely won by the skin of our teeth. One of our party memebers lost their arm.
Breh, just....tarasque.. it, to leave you and the gang alone, easy.
All witchcraft sacrifices torture whatever evil events deeds be stopped punished destroyed in the name of Jesus Christ!
If you thought this was bad, then know that Asmodeus got a half-fiendish tarrasque down in Hell.
At 6:00 I can hear Exploring’s cat meowing 😂
Oh my *goodness* thank you for pointing that out! k i t t y
"MEOW." The Cat in the Background-2020
You mean the cry of the Tarrasque?
Timestamp pls
5:58 hear it for a little while, the meow is heard on exactly 6:00
Also, it's very low, so hear closely
6:00
Show us your cat.
Absolutely. We need to see the kitty!
"...or being disturbed by other creatures..." "mmeoow"
I got the impression he was a dog person
@@jesseberg3271 Maybe he likes both?
@@TheHalogen131 IDK, but in the last SCP video he said he refuses to cover an SCP that kills dogs, right after discussing an SCP that required that ethical felines be dismembered and nailed to the walls. I can be wrong, but that's just how I had tagged him on my mind.
I was once part of a campaign (that unfortunately crashed and burned due to a nasty break up between players but the premise was cool), where a lich bound a Tarrasque into his phylactery. No one wanted to kill him because if they did, the Tarrasque would immediately be released. The same lich later opened up portals to parallel universes, and it was revealed that while there was only ever one Tarrasque on any given material plane, across all planes they were a diffused hive mind. They grew exponentially smarter the more of them were in close proximity. It was our party's purpose to prevent the Tarrasque-geddon.
YESSSS! Been waiting for this one!
I had a group of "veteran" players. They bragged that they could take on anything I'd throw at them, first level.
Started them in a village celebrating the Summer Faire.
Then I woke up this primordial dooms
day device and put them in its path. They were supposed to evacuate the townspeople to the caves or crypts, or extradimensional vacation mansion hidden by a wizard who was born in that village. They had discovered every one of these avenues, but decided to try to build defenses, traps, and tactics to stop the tarrasque for the bragging rights of beating it at level 1.
The rampaging god of deathclaws ended up licking one of the pc's jellied carcass off his foot. That's the closest they came to inconvenienceing it. They got butt hurt as I literally erased the town off the map and declared TPK.
They deserved it
@Stellvia Hoenheim You must be new to the concept of D&D.
Peaceful city: *exists*
Tarrasque: So anyways, I stated eatin'.
*OH BOY! IT’S 3 AM!!*
Woot
Eats krabby patty.
I figured out how to deal with the thing - remove it, not kill it - back in 2e. Draw it into an area that is prepped for an estate transference spell. The spell effects a radius of several miles. Once the creature is inside the spell's range, the caster would finish casting the spell. Estate transference sends a large area of the world to an inner plane, and once there the land is protected by a bubble of force from the dangers of that plane. This bubble lasts so long as the magic item used as the spell's focus remains undisturbed at the center of the spell area. Once the land and the monster is transported, the spellcaster could pick up the magic item and teleport far away, hopefully back to his home world.
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The plane of salt would probably be the best destination. Once the protective bubble is removed, the effects of the plane would quickly leech away all moisture from the beast, leaving it a sort of mummified corpse.
why not just toss it into the astral sea and be done with it
@@breadtoast1036 My frame of reference is 2e. I pretty much stopped buying the books after that. In 2e cosmology, the astral is pretty easy to leave. You just think of a destination while floating through the silvery void, and eventually you come to a color pool that you can cross to get to a prime world or outer plane. I figured if this thing ended up there, it wouldn't be too long before it escaped or someone else helped it to escape.
The plane of Salt is hostile enough to discourage all but the very powerful and very determined. Who is going to travel through an infinite block of mostly solid salt, looking for the desiccated mummy of a giant monster that would instantly kill you when it wakes, all while trying to prevent the place from sucking all the moisture from your body?
The inner planes are also harder to leave than the astral. Again, this is me referencing 2e cosmology and rules. Maybe you're more spot on under the latest edition.
I’d love to see them do a video on a false hydra, I know it’s technically a home brew but I’d love to see the video nonetheless.
I did play a game where we accidentally managed to trap a tarrasque in the astral plane, involving a very unlucky roll, and some teleportation shenanigans
I would also like to see that
"at at least it can't fly, right?"
And then it starts to grow wings. Where is your god now?
As of 4th and 5th edition. It has an always active passive effect called EarthBinding Aura. Pretty much everything out to 200 or so feet from Old Tarry that is flying is suddenly restricted to a maximum altitude of about 25 feet. Well within its reach
Well shit
Very cool video. In my homebrew setting, Tarasque is a servant of the Author, the over deity in my setting. When the Author is dissatisfied with his creation, he will wipe out the world and restart it from scratch. However, he needs a narrative reason to start a new draft. So, the Tarasque is the engine in which he achieves this. However, should the Tarasque be slain, who knows what greater lengths the Author might go...
I always homebrew the Terrasque being larger than a measly 50 feet, that feels a bit small for DnD Godzilla
"With over 1400hp, making it nearly unkillable."
Martha, Level 50 Priestess: "Adorable."
Priest, prepare the peasant railgun!
I think the unkillable part is that you have to reduce it to zero hp then cast wish so it doesn't just regenerate back to life. Then it goes to sleep for a few hundred years or something.
But this was joke.
@@goldengaruda8935 if I remember correctly from the Monster Manual, the Tarrasque needs to be reduced to negative hit points not zero. At zero hit points he is still dangerous.
@@vFANGv depends on which edition you're using. In 3.5 it had to be reduced to something like -300 HP before the Wish would work
PREPARE THE MAGICAL ACID COATED BALL BEARING SHOTGUN (2 rogues at level one can give you 2000 ball bearings)
Tarrasque: I'll destroy everything
7 half-elf Clerics: nah
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Love the cat meow at 8:57 as if to say 'yeah that's right you'd better hope there's only one'
Do you know that the Tarrasque is actually a dragon from the mythology of Provence in Southern France? In legend it lurked in the river Rhone near the town of Tarascon, attacking and devouring men, but it was defeated by St. Martha
I prefer it's lesser known aquatic counterpart, a species of nightshade, the Nightwave. The deepest blackness of the ocean given form as a colossal undead shark that brings the crushing depths to any water it hunts. Also it can fly and has a heaping handful of magic abilities. It doesn't have any weird stipulations on killing it but good luck getting close enough.
The Tarrasque i'm using is closer to the one from French myth. Love how the 2e one looks like a deathclaw.
Lord Blackwood needs to make a crossover to D&D
How would you stat a sea slug?
Reminds me of the time my campaign had the big baddy make his homebase Inside a living tarrasque by shunting parts of it to pocket dimensions to make rooms, sadly never got to finish it due to a few moving away.
He was making flesh golems from trimmings and testing poisons out on samples of the living flesh.
In Old French Mythology, the Tarasque is a dragon with multiple legs, a shell of a turtle, and a lion like head. Plus it was tamed by St. Martha and brought it in the town of Tarascon.
Who then proceeded to murder the hell out the docile beast as they restrained Martha and forced her to watch, uncaring that it was by the grace and miracle of their own deity which the creature was tamed.
containment breach! send in MTF Delta-20 "Dungeon Masters"
That sounds absolutely terrifying. Lemme grab my great sword.
I love the terasque. I wished they made it a boss monster in dragon's dogma or dark souls. Imagine making a sword or something out of the remains of it
You want to make a Sword of your remains?
Oh man, monster hunter getting a new elder "dragon"
@@TheMetastasia I said it the remains of it
@Young Paris it sounds like a Kaiju and looks like it in art but is actually tiny. Seriously, its like 21 metres at most. That wouldn't even stand over most houses
M O N S T E R H U N T E R
My 2 personal favourite ways of killing a Tarrasque. 1) Leading it directly into the fireplane with a high level banishment spell. 2) Let gravity do it's job and somehow manage to hit it with a 9th level gate spell to send it directly to the planets atmosphere. If the planet was earth they would approximately take around 20,000 force damage.
I’ve used the Tarrasque as more of a natural disaster. A thing that blew through a nearby town that the party had to go and help rescue survivors and basically uncover missing people during the huge crisis, they all met like that. As people who just started becoming aids to a town ravaged by this horrid creature
HELL YEAH loved hearing about this thing from the astonishing Lord Blackwood tales !!! Absolutely loved everything about it !! Nice work mate
I'll be honest, I prefer Paizo's Tarrasque the most, along with the other Spawn of Rovagug. It gave them a lot more historic binding to the world, and introduced a whole host of other creatures like it. Each of them is their own flavour of awful and destructive, and their existence and echoes in the lore are still seen and felt throughout the game world.
I’ve been waiting for this one for a while :)
Fun fact: in the upcoming campaign for 5e “Rime of the Frostmaiden” (might have the name wrong idk) the DnD team is making the “Scroll of Tarrasque” canon. The Scroll of Tarrasque spawns a Tarrasque anywhere within 500 miles of you when activated. :)
In the 80’s our scout group would spend all summer making bigger and bigger stories about the size and power of the mighty tarasque. One of us could perform a tarasque mating call.
I remember a 4E campaign i was a part of where the Tarrasque was the big finally of that part of the campaign (we needed to take a break from that campaign and start another letting one of the other start DMing). Needless to say it was only stopped and not killed but was something we took pride in doing.
Looking to run a Tarrasque themed campaign after completing the Lost Mines of Phandelver module. This video was vary informative! Thank you for uploading!
This is interesting knowing more about The Tarrasque Card from the Magic The Gathering D&D set that I pulled yesterday. It is a OP card that can only attack Creatures instead of the player heath
Technically, the Tarrasque has the ability; Earth glide. It moves through soil like a fish does water. there wouldn't be any tremors unless it had to break its way through a mineral deposit.
I’m sure the cat in the background would “wake the beast”
My cat would be like o what is this then try to attack
I think my favorite thing about your channel is that when i look in the comments i see something that leads me to another video
I've never used a Tarraque, though I've only DM'd a few short games. but if I was I would probably do some tweaking with reference from the previous additions and maybe some help from some friends to bring it up to the world ending monster it used to be. I like the idea that you're not supposed to fight them through traditional means only find a way to banish or subdue it, or something to force it back into slumber or make it someone else's problem. I also feel if a ran multiple campaigns in the same setting I would have it be a recurring monster that appears on rare occasion, help solidify that you can never truly keep a Tarraque down, only subdue it and hope that your prepared for when it reemerges or that you're long gone by the time it doses.
The Torrasque from Starcraft 2 comes also into my mind xD
Exactly!
One of the interesting features of the Tarrasque is its spines. From an evolutionary perspective, these would imply that the Tarrasque... is a prey animal!
Well. If you consider 2nd Editions Spelljammer setting valid. It's basically a rock eating alien ankylosaur with a *severe* case of the bends. In their natural habitat they're docile and don't regenerate their wounds nearly as quick. Something to do with nitrogen getting into their bloodstream and collecting in certain glands in their bodies drives them mad from pain and supercharges their regenerative abilities.
I remember reading an account about an older player recalling his experiences playing against the Tarrasque when it first came out. They slade the beast and took home its claws as trophies from their conquest, the DM then regenerated all the pieces they took intro multiple Tarrasques. My person headcannon is that this is the way Tarrasques reproduce, and that the Tarrasques we know today are the resulting outcome from ancient foolish adventurers from near the dawn of time.
Me with my (slightly homebrew) Artificer-made magic Gauss cannon: *YOU PICKED THE WRONG HOUSE FOOL*
A lesser known fact is that the terrasaque is immortal, even if defeated it does come back. It takes an extremely long time for it to regenerate it's limbs if you rip it apart. But it will eventually regrow them. It also sleeps for as long as it eats. It has 3 stomachs as well, each has a different function to digestion. It's 3rd stomach can dissolve magic items and even relic items like the hand and eye of vecna.
The thing you throw at the pary when you want death.
Then a wish spell teleport your planned boss battle into the chaos abyss
Love it I remember reading about this awesome creature way back in the day, so nostalgic!
When I started watching Mang a few years back I didn't watch the DnD stuff but I've come to like it more than his other content.
The tarrasque keeps evolving as a creature with each editions
I love that the tarrasques stomach is the only canonical thing able to destroy Artifacts
So who wants to talk about how this has Christian origins?
Supposedly Saint Martha, the biblical Martha, wandered into Provence and tamed a Tarasque with holy water and a cross, leashed it and took into town. Towns people killed it with rocks and now the town is called Tarascon bc Martha was upset that they killed the monster she tamed.
well I would be pissed as well, imagine having this giant ass monster and the people killing it with stones, probably took forever and was a horrible way for it to die. (maybe it died out of rage which it internalized since it was a good boy/girl and didn't want to hurt anyone)
That was what scp-682 called a really bad day....
That Tarrasque also looked almost nothing like the DnD one, with 8 elephant legs, a tortoise shell, the head of a lion (with horse ears) and the tail of a Scorpion.
One of the versions of the tarraque lore states that the one you encounter is not a true tarrasque but rather some minor version or an infant and the true tarrasque roams the stars being the size of a moon
Your voice puts my brain in SCP mode, so it feels like you're describing an scp to me
Y'all remember when Hardwon, Moonshine, and Beverly took one of these down at level 18 with the help of an entire army and they still almost bit it?
If it wasn't for Apple being the best dang mud boarder in all of Bahumia, they'd have had no chance. She rode that thing into the ground 😂
@@danders1094 honestly that fight is what really taught me how strong rage can be. She was tanking everything.
@@TheUnluckyEverydude this is actually why one of my friends gave the tarrasue the frenzy ability imagine rage but even more powerful and dangerous on a 50 foot monstrosity of death and destruction
Shorn of the extra bells and whistles, this just sounds like a description of a giant snapping turtle, like Frank, or Himb the Wandering Forest...
There could have been many Terrasque in the past. But due to food constraints, they would begin eating each other. And because of their stomachs, it would prevent any regeneration. After awhile of fighting and eating each other, it would single out into only one.
For whatever reason this makes me want to write a Jurassic Park-esque one shot where basically tarrasque is like the king of the dinos.
Nice, just gave me the perfect name for my gecko.
It makes a good pet if you're powerful enough to control it.
The first time I heard the name Tarrasque was from Starcraft, an immortal super op ultralisk,
Yes!!
I love magic that has useless or detrimental effects
It just matches a certain side of my sense of humor
"How does one kill a Tarrasque? The answer to that is of course not easy"
me: nukes
Arguably with its resistances it might well survive a nuke.
Though you used the plural so now I'm imaging a carpet bombing run of fifty Tzar Bombas resulting in a Fallout style Glowing Sea with the carbonized corpse of the tarrasque at the center, slowly regenerating over a period of like, a week.
@@Pinefr0st If it still lives, nuke it some more.
@@sparkywu905 But if it keeps regenerating, you're just going to be digging a deeper crater. Unless you mean nuke it and then use the Wish to keep it dead?
I had a good chunk of a campaign devoted to players hunting down and foiling plots of/killing members of the Tarrasque death cult.
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The worst thing I've ever seen that scared the crap out of my character in game: a deep underground chamber of dormant undead Tarrasques. A baker's dozen of the monsters somehow miraculously slain and then stored. Apparently someone was monkeying with time and causality to get the things and once one was realigned, so were all the others until there was only one living Tarrasque left roaming the world again.
The Tarrasque has 3 stomachs... and horns... is it a cow?
Rock-eating alien ankylosaur.
so... feed it? open a portal into its mouth (or stomach if that's possible [I'm guessing it's not possible to teleport the thing itself] ) and another into a food source (maybe a volcano as it seems quite capable of obtaining nutrients from molten rock) and let it go to sleep.
Yes! Your DnD videos are WAY better than the SCP stuff!!!!
I mean, most versions i've seen stats for could be killed by sending them through a Gate or other method of planar travel into the Positive Energy Plane (they'd then overheal to death), the Elemental Plane of Fire (Kill it with all the fire in the plane), the Elemental Plane of Air (starvation due to the fact that it is now eternally falling and can't actually reach anything to eat it), or the Negative Energy Plane (necrotic damage for the kill, though that one has the potential to make an undead tarrasque so... maybe not a good move), but basically if it's unkillable on the plane you're fighting it on, take the fight to a new plane
Yeah but the gate spell has a size limit, and it is smaller than a Tarrasque and to build a portal big enough would be an enormous undertaking and likely take too long. And that's if it doesn't simply smash the portal outright.
Best to gather powerful mages to cast ‘Meatier Shower’ to sate the Tarrasque’s hunger and send it back into hibernation.
Could you go over some notable figures in DnD at some point? I would like to see what kind of personalities have existed in this universe.
I really like the d&d exploration keep it coming!
Glad we finally got a tarrasque video from you. One of my favorites from D&D. Video’s awesome by the way.
The Akantor lookin' slick in this video
What if you wish for it to shrink down to a small enough size and put it in a bag of holding. It may not kill it, so my theory is that a new one won’t show up somewhere else, and since it’s in the bag of holding, you can use it to eliminate magic items and stuff that is hard to destroy. It’s like a magic garbage disposal.
You might well be onto something
I love these DnD videos