From: royle@highland.manassas.ibm.com (Matthew Royle x4553 highland)
Subject: Re: Tarresque - Anyone killed one?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 12:49:43 GMT
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research

In article <1992Aug20.111513.10456@spdcc.com>, pentangl@spdcc.com (Scott Moir) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug19.234212.19759@leland.Stanford.EDU> tremblay@leland.Stanford.EDU (Marc Tremblay) writes:
|> >In article <1992Aug19.190028.21199@mcs.kent.edu> adray@Chaos.mcs.kent.edu (Adam Dray) writes:
|> >>In article <u894793.714246199@bruny>, u894793@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Timothy D Little) writes:
|> >>|> 
|> >>|> I'm interested in knowing if anyone has ever actually killed a Tarresque in a
|> >>|> non-Monty Haul campaign.  Any stories?
|> >>
|> >>It's a trick question.
|> >>
|> >>Tarrasques don't exist in non-MH, non-Munchkin campaigns.
|> >
|> >Hmmm, I'm not sure I agree. Granted, I haven't looked at its specs in
|> >a while... But, I think a cleaver/ressourceful party of reasonable
|> >level could come up with a clever way of defeating one given adequate
|> >preparation time. It would be interesting to see. Obviously, they
|> >wouldn't go head to head with it...
|> 
|> I placed one in a desolate spot in my world just for the sake of placing
|> the thing. As it turned out, the party ended up going into the area on
|> thier own. 
|> 
|> They ran into the terrasque and killed it pretty effectively. We discussed
|> other ways of doing it and actually found a couple of effective ways.
|> 
|> The way they did it was that they engaged it in combat while an illusionist
|> in the group made a ledge seem further out than it was. The main fighters
|> deliberately led it onto the ledge (They went out too) and dropped down
|> into a lake. The terrasque drowned. No little terrasques, and no damage to
|> regen from.
|> 
|> They also mentioned using a mirror of entrapment to capture one, and kill
|> it off later by dropping it into a volcano or something. Another suggestion
|> was to transmute rock to mud under it, then mud to rock and let it starve.
|> 
|> Scott
|> 


  Those are some pretty good ideas for finishing one... But seriously
people, is a Tarrasque really that tough?  I know the stats, roughly, and
they arent that big of a deal.  (300 hit points or something, big deal)  I
mean, sure they are tough to kill for people of level less than, say, 15, but
you should not be fighting them if you are that low of a level.  Although
even a group of 2 or 3 15 level characters could probably take one.  Throw
a mage, a druid, and a Ranger (15th level mage, 17th level ranger, 13th level
druid)  at the Tarrasque and it wouldnt last 5 rounds (well, maybe 5, but
not much more)  against them.  If you have ever seen a Druid run *well* you
would know that few characters are as powerful as the druid.  And a
tarrasque is basically just a lumbering giant, a mage can easily stay away
from his attacks, as can a druid.  The ranger can do his damndest to stay
out of the way, with help from the mage, then take it out with ranged attacks
and a few well placed sword swings... Any monster can be defeated (any normal
monster) rather easily by a group of characters that are good at what they
do, and very used to working together to defeat things...
    -Rastafan Ballista Durskaen, Legion of the Storm, 44th Ranger Battalion
 
    -Matthew Royle
     royle@manvmd1.vnet.ibm.com


p.s. My character (rastafan) does not play in a monty haul campaign, our DM
     is against gold and magic items.  At 18th level (played up from first)
     I have seen a total of 4 magic items.... One of which is a weapon that
     I carry.  And the same goes for the other two members in our group, and
     between us, we have 150 gold coins. (I am 18th, the ranger 20th, and the
     druid is 16th level) We have played for a long time and have defeated
     some pretty powerful foes, much more powerful than a tarrasque would ever
     be...
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