UPDATE: ⚬ Tiamat and the tarrasque can't damage each other easily because of nonmagical immunity. Makes things even easier for us! We only realistically need 1 tarrasque now, it just needs to have its claws sharpened with a 'magic weapon' spell scroll. ⚬ SOMEHOW I missed the fact that Tiamat's bite does FORCE DAMAGE. Guess you can cast the 'Invulnerability' spell on yourself, which funnily enough would be easier than needing 'Mind Blank' and all the armor. You'd also have a full hour to slay her instead of 10 minutes!

As a forever DM, creating a single well designed character might be more difficult than building an entire campaign.

who needs in-game decades of character experience and a full party when you can summon some world-ending beasts and poke the goddess with the sharpest sword in all of existence?

That IS an interesting character idea, imagine for example a prince or some important/rich kid who is absolutely useless on his own but is equipped with all kinds of magical swag. It could make for a cool boss fight concept.

Here's something actually rather funny. The tarrasque is immune to nonmagical bps (bludgeoning piercing and slashing) as well as the aspect of tiamat herself. If you summon two tarrasque, their claws will simply do nothing. Tiamat will fly away... and then the tarrasque will fight each other... also doing absolutely nothing. The two will roll around and wrestle like city-block sized toddlers for eternity, crushing humanity underfoot. Congrats. You have a tiamat problem *and* a double tarrasque problem. It'll get even worse if the original one wakes up.

This video was four hundred and nineteen times more epic than your normal content because of the references

Very nice of you to shoutout Pack tactics. Thanks to him I am now dealing absurd damage without any multiclassing or items

Using any number of summoned tarrasques won't do anything as they are physically incapable of harming her. Their only damage output options are non-magical bludgeoning piercing and slashing all of which she's immune to (it can also do acid damage but she's too big to swallow and also immune to that as well) A slight issue with picking warlock: they don't have access to mindblank so you couldn't use the scroll so you'll survive at most until her chromatic wrath ability is triggered and then you instantly die when she uses a legendary action at the end of your turn.

You forgot the "Tome of " which are Vrare items that increase an attribute score by 2 and increase the cap to a max of 24. They don't require attunement. So you can get a full stat spread of all 24s at level 1 with enough money. (Bag of beans can also help with that if you can roll constant 20s on con saves from the eggs, as each egg gives a +1 to your lowest stat, up to your cap.) And funny enough, the level 7 ancients paladin level 13 war wizard would have way higher than 40 AC doing this with only a single attuned magic item. (23 from +3 studded leather armor, 28 from +3 shield, 29 from defensive style, 30 from warforged, +2 fromwar wizard deflect, and +7 AC from that helm that adds your CHA to your AC/saving throws from the aforementioned tiamant module. Thats 39 AC with a single attuned magic item before factoring in the additional +4 they'd get from self casted haste + war wizard concentration.) Add in a cloak of displacement so that tiamant is always rolling at disadvantage, add in that the paladin would have, AT MINIMUM a +25 to ALL saving throws (+7 from 24 stat, +7 from aura, +7 from helm, +4 from war wizard deflect, add another +7 to anything they are proficient in...) and yeah, good luck Tiamant since that paladin still has 1 free attunement slot for something that lets them heal every turn.

Regarding the tarrasque part, Tiamat is immune to nonmagical physical damage, so that wouldn’t work. Edit: Check the pinned comment.

Challenge: How to turn a character from level 20 into a level 1 character without dying

frl I think it’s really cool that you take the time to talk about other dnd youtuber I already watched their content but the shoutout shows that the dnd community is really strong

Speaking of experience, Brennan Lee Mulligan once said, roughly, “if XP is how you level up then ‘wizarding school should just be some old dude making sure his student don’t die while they’re low level.’” Milestone is objectively superior to XP- not to say you can’t do great stuff with it, but there’s nothing you can do with XP that you can’t do better with milestone. I’m running Rime of the Frostmaiden, my first ever campaign, which is explicitly milestone. I doubt I’ll ever even try an XP based game.

The holy triad of DND big brain plays. DND shorts, Pact Tactics and Blaine Simple.

Pretty easy way to defeat tiamat... step 1: get a friend (I wont be able to do it) step 2: bot of you get a familiar and a bag of holding step 3: you and your friend crate a hawk give one of them the first bag of holding holding it wide open and the second one a rolled up BoH step 4: Let them ready their action to dash near tiamat when she gets within of 60ft and let the second hawk fly into the open BoH of the first hawk step 5: tiamat comes within 60ft. hawks do their thing and tiamat gets warped into the astral plane. Your welcome :D

I use experience leveling, but don’t let my party level up until a long rest/downtime. Because of things like “You need to pray for your spells back to get the extra level”, or “Your patron has no idea you’ve completed the task” or “How are you learning this in the middle of combat?”.

Yeahhh my group uses milestones because my dm has had to deal with murderhobos grinding xp before and honestly I don't blame him

I love these vids, you are an absolute mad man and I love it.

Actually, in the lore of dnd, the only spell ever powerful enough to kill a god was a 12th level spell called karsus’ avatar, that was since banned once a new god of magic was created after the old one died to the spell, new rules were put in place to avoid the same tragedy that befell karsus and the magical civilization of fabled legend called Netheril, and for that reason, wish cannot actually kill a god

Usually when it comes to stopping Tiamat's evil plans I'm in. But I recognize that planet she is invading. I care nothing for the 10th layer of hell.

That intro perfectly embodied me getting sucked into watching this and I love it

The thought of defeating a BBEG with a Tarrasque is so ridiculous yet so brilliant. If I was DMing and it happened, I don't think I could be mad, it's just too cool.

Content is still somehow enjoyable and funny with something I don’t understand a single thing about.

If you want to cut out all rolling besides that of your damage, the Clockwork Amulet is a simple common magic item that allows you to take 10 on an attack roll once per day, simply chain together the ~100 you’d need for all the attacks you’d be making.

I like that it would be harder to fight the old version of Tiamat if airborne due to her immunity to spells of 6th level or lower. Not to mention that her attacks would be magical.

tarrasque has no ranged attack so tiaat just has to stay far enough away while breathing all sorts of things at it

7:05 I use a mix of Milestones and experience where all of the characters have a collective pool of experience and doing the normal Encounter Defeating will gain them all experience in their collective pool, but I also include certain things like major events giving a set amount of experience *Or* if an encounter is predicted to need a lot higher levels I will do a level boost which basically just fills in the rest of the experience to reach that next level.

Well there is also the one true king of dnd optimisation and that treeentmonk

I recently came across a level 2 build that can 1-hit KO literally ANY opponent in 2nd, using only 1 legendary magic item. The legendary trident Wave (found in the infamous White Plume Mountain Dungeon) has an interesting feature " If you score a critical hit with it, the target takes extra necrotic damage equal to half its hit point maximum". This is already incredibly good, but now lets take a look at the Grave Domain Cleric's level 2 Channel Divinity feature: Path to the Grave "As an action, you choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you, cursing it until the end of your next turn. The next time you or an ally of yours hits the cursed creature with an attack, the creature has vulnerability to all of that attack's damage, and then the curse ends." Since the target becomes vulnerable to the damage, we don't need to worry about any existing resistances, and the vulnerability will double the damage of our target's attack - dealing damage equal to their maximum HP (as well as the trident's normal damage, boosted by the critical hit). Therefore we can theoretically instantly kill any enemy at level 2 in a single hit. We don't even need to worry about proficiency or our ability scores since natural 20s always hit. Just make sure you go first so you don't take any damage in return (Alert Feat + Max Dex + Carrying a Weapon of Warning + A clockwork Amulet + Reading any Manuals of Quickness of Action should guarantee you always go first). But this is only a 5% chance of killing something. We can take this even further beyond, though for this we are going to have to be level 20, to see just how far we can take this. Obviously our first 2 levels will need to go into Grave Domain Cleric, and our remaining ones are going to go into Divination Wizard. Using our Portnet Subclass Feature at level 18 we can roll 3 dice in advance to save for later. This way we can ensure that we will have a Nat 20 ready for our OHKO attack, just make sure never to rest once you finally have that Nat 20 until you have made your insta-kill attack. This increases the probability of us insta-killing on any given day, given that we essentially have 4 rolls to get the necessary Nat 20 to 18.5%. But wait there is more! If we fail to roll a Nat 20 on one of our Portent rolls and have to rely on a single attack roll for the Nat 20, we could do so with advantage, either by a friend taking the health action or if we have no friends casting a spell that grants us advantage such as True Strike (Yes, True Strike might actually be useful, who'd have thought?). This raises the odds of us rolling a Nat 20 on the day we decide to kill God to 22.6%. But we're just getting started folks! If we take the Lucky feat, we can re-roll our attack roll, effectively giving us 1 more opportunity to get the magic number we need, raising the probability to 26.4%. Finally if we pick Halfling as our race, we can re-roll the dice if we roll a 1 on our attack roll, raising the final probability to 33.8%. So in short, this build has a one in three chance of being able to wake up and OHKO anything in the game. But what if there was a way to increase this to 100%? You see there are two certain spells in the game, Hold Person and Hold Monster that grant the Paralyzed condition to a target that fails a Wisdom save, and here's a thing about the Paralyzed condition: "Any Attack that hits the creature is a critical hit if the attacker is within 5 feet of the creature". In other words if we cast Hold Person or Hold Monster on our target before we hit it with the world's deadliest fork, then we are guaranteed to OHKO them 100% of the time. Most legendary creatures can avoid this using Legendary Resistance, so just make sure to burn through those with other high-level spells before going in for the finishing blow. You can even through in a casting of Silvery Barbs to further increase the odds of them failing the fatal save. So yeah, just make sure you worship a sea god so you can attune to the trident and you are good!

Ah yes, the best way to use a tarrasque , send it up against a flying ranged creature with acid breath weapons

Love to see you bigging up other creators :) loved the video ☺️

This would be an absolutely incredible story to write

"with the powerful artifacts you borrowed you defeat the dragon god Tiamat. Go ahead and level up." "Sweet, how many levels of experience did I get?" "One. Everything you were carrying disappears in a puff of smoke. A pit fiend appears before you to remind you of your contract. You still owe Asmodeus about sixty billion souls."

We eventually used the divine and defeated book, the 3.0 or 3.5 gods book and broke out onto a becoming a god campaign. It was fun. Then the responsibility of a god and managing their chosen domains

Note to self, remember this so I can use it at a later date.. Also that's a great thumbnail!

Well yes, but her soul will be still somewhere in Avernus Therefore, she is not defeated, just banished You need to do things like truepolymorphing her in peasant, trapping her soul in a jar (while controlling her true body( and then destroying the soul Or kill her soul another way idk

you could also use the eye and hand of Vecna, giving you the "hand of Vecna" effect if you hit an attack. Making the target roll a con save or have their skeleton turn to jelly and be reduced to zero hitpoints..

Look, if you've managed to figure out how to get all of these magical items and are able to precisely use them to defeat a dragon god, you deserve the dang xp

The scariest thing is that classic tiamat might be hard since they heal 30 hp every round meaning you have to best case scenario deal over 35 damage a round

Whoo, Pack Tactics! \o/ Love that channel.

“You can watch Godzilla vs King Kong at a comfortable miles away” I WISH there was an official monster that could be up to both King Kong’s level and could face the Tarrasque.

I'm curious; who's casting the spell scrolls and when? You can't cast a spell scroll without a level in the spell scroll's appropriate class, and it will more than likely take MANY attempts of casting to get it right, seeing as min/maxing strength is important so your spellcasting stat won't be maxed either. Do you have a partner who also has invulnerability spamming spell scrolls until they work? Or did you forget that spell scrolls can't be cast by just anyone?

0:01-0:11 this is literally the relationship between Chat Jr. and Himeno XD

2:57 Here We Are was not expected, but appreciated

I think Tiamat's claw bite attacks are considered as magic weapon. So armor of Invulnerability can't save you. And Gargantuan Tiamat can't be locked by force cage with very high chance(since Ancient dragon is 25ft size). If your DM allows bag of holding can devour Huge creatures without grappling check, attack roll, that is the only option and you should beat Tiamat's initiate roll. (and everybody doesn't know this gigantic extradimension monster is bigger or smaller than Tiamat, so it's very debatable by DM.)

Milestone is very railroady, I feel like exp gives reason to continue

Bard: ohhhhh you said “slay” Tiamat. Well I have a new son now and Tiamat is very not dead.

War-forged Artificer lv1. You can craft magical items, you do not age or need any lifestuff. Make unlimited Books of +2 DEX. Using downtime activity rules, Set up a Small Business to keep profit going and build a franchise. Doing this at wealthy status (you have zero costs). Once you have your desired number of books. E.g. 100+ Laugh at the fact as long as you don't roll nat 1s. You can most likely solo her in leather armour with any dex weapon. As you have +100 to hit rolls and damage (ABS 10 DEX) an AC of 111. If worried about death +100 CON Books and Level 2+. You can also use downtime training to level 5 for magical item crafting for +1 items if that is necessary. Multiple War-Forged Party members just drastically decrease the time needed for this to work. At higher level your War-Forged Party can also spam craft mundane breastplate armour with fabricate for 600 GP profit per day per PC.

Here's how I'd do it: Step one: Cheese the fuck out of dragons. A scroll of true polymorph does the trick: Lets go with a brass dragon wyrmling. Step two: assuming you're allowed to level back up to 1 again, gain a wizard level again, etc. grab a scroll of time ravage or find an androsphinx (you don't need the level unless you're getting time ravage) Branching paths. First, time ravage Cast time ravage on yourself using the scroll after casting death ward on yourself. After that, cast clone on yourself, making a younger version of you (at least 800 years old, wacky stuff). Finally, cast sequester on yourself, the condition being x amount of days pass (the moment when the clone would mature, so you die riiiight after it does.) This makes you an ancient dragon. Otherwise, the androsphinx can just use it's lair actions over and over again to age you to over 800. Same result. From here, head across the material plane and start murdering echoes of yourself. Once you're done, eat em all. RAW, you become a greatwyrm. From here, you're still too weak to take on tiamat, BUT, you can turn go ahead and stay in the shadowfell for a while, granting you resistance to all damage except psychic, radiant, and force when it's dark because you're a shadow dragon. Use simulacrum to make a clone of yourself, and wish as the simulacrum to give yourself those remaining resistances permanently. From here, it's a simple numbers game: how much damage can you do to her, and how much of her damage can get through your now... 2030 effective hp? Considering she doesn't have resistance, I'd say that's your win. She can't even get away, as you're too fast. She does have immunity to your breath, but your mythic action incapacitate is perfectly viable. Only issue being this is after a ton of prep and well... The world is fucked after that Also, should note, getting 30s in all stats isn't hard at all. (getting beyond 30s is beyond debatable but) you just need to make a bunch of demonic deals as in decent into avernus.

Excuse me but when I had this idea I had to come to you,you are the only person I know capable to make a dnd character for the queen of England.

A second tarrasque, are you still drunk Sips.

This breaks down the moment Tiamat starts grappling you. All she has to do is pin you down for long enough that the turn economy favors her.

*Tiamat appears.* Lame: I'M F---ING INVINCIBLE!

Instant level 18. Welcome to your heroic destiny. We can only guarantee you 2 things now: A medal and a bodybag.

The winged tiefling way back in sword coast, introduced a first level character who could body a tarrasque

two bags of holding, two birds. let them fly into eachother one bag consuming the other, and send tiamat to the astral plane.

You absolute madlad- I'm inspired

Tiamat has been retconned to not actually be tiamat, but an avatar of sorts.

This is effectively the argument that Batman can beat anyone with enough prep time.

Now let’s see slaying gods at level 20

I’m finally ready to face the new DM again

As a man who started playing SCP:SL I cant understand Lery as anything other than the old man.

woot, a pack tactics shout out!

Just get yourself an infinity gauntlet 🧐🥸

Is that my boy the Tarrasque. LETS GOOOO

Hooray!

3:40 XXD a two-for-one reference Godzilla AND rexy from Jurassic Park

Armor of invulnerability states it "for 10 minutes or until you are no longer wearing the armor".

My favorite way a level 1 character could do this fight is get a bunch of commoners, and have them all read a Scroll of the Comet. Literally just make a crater where she stands, and obliterate her from a mile away. Man I love that magic item.

This is just a normal tiamat thursday.

So my wife's campaign was cut short so she needed to end it in a session. Enter Aspect of Tiamat, after 2 rounds of combat with Tiamat taking it easy on our party of 5 level 6s... She was getting ready to do some real damage. Well with Tiamat last in the Initiative order, I (Lizardfolk, Monk) look towards our Fighter and, in character, yell give me your Bag of Holding! Wife DM had forgotten the party had two bags of holding. I also had winged boots giving me 45 feet fly speed. So with 5/59 HP I wiped my own blood on my face, and yell "Witness Me." I fly into Tiamat and stuff the bags of holding together teleporting us to the Astral Sea. Wife DM was so upset I prevented a TPK to end the campaign so we ended there. It was fantastic.

the Trask vs Tiamat is like watching Godzilla vs King gadora

I have an idea for a new race called miscelani, which are really just really confused people that are really bad at everything but can make your head hurt(psychic damage)when you roll insight on any action they take equal to your total score, do things that defy every known law of physics or magic, and also have infinite will, no one will make them do anything they don't want to. It's just they have 1 in every stat and take double necrotic and radiant. Also they have the strangest abilities and can have any ability they want. I think they should only have like 3 things that go against their will and where they stop is independence, life and how to treat people.

Imagine Bahamut showing Tiamat this very video.

And that's why D&D will always be the best game. Your winning strategy can rely on "a loose interpretation of the rules text"

Imagine being a ancient dragon goddess and finally getting free after hundreds of years only for one gnome to come up and do this

In my Tyranny campaign I made up a backstory for a blacksmith that didn’t like spellcasters and it led to the players destroying the city

This isn‘t the bootleg version of godzille vs king kong. This is literally Godzilla vs King Gidorah

Sister Simple! Woo!

idk about you guys but I love the classic style of XP, it's a nice and simple way to track your progress and easy to understand. Just add 300 xp to your character for killing those goblins instead of being stuck on level 1 for most encounters because your dm didn't want you to go in another direction XD

Blaine, would you be interested in making a video on how to get (near) infinite spell slots at level 1. It could be a cool idea.

A portable hole and a bag of holding off the top of my head

I like milestones a lot because most dms are your friends or family so they’ll just level you up way to much lol

On this episode of how to make the DM cry

YEAAAAAA PACK TACTICS

being a very very fresh noob to d&d, most of this made my brain melt lol. i’m still deciding on what race and class to make my character…..thats how fresh I be.

Two bags of holding. If you don't care about losing those two valuable items, charm someone to get close to Tiamat and put one in the other. Either she gets pulled in or she's cut in half.

Its very simple, tiamat rolls a 1 on all checks and the level 1 always rolls 20 and they have good gear and spells

A tarrasque fighting Tiamat would be less Godzilla vs. King Kong and more Godzilla vs. Ghidorah.

As a DM currently running this module, Thanks for telling me how my players could screw the final boss :D

*Pushes up glasses, um actually that is just Tiamat's avatar

U can also use two potable holes

Here's a meme video idea: a level 20 character who can't beat a level 5 encounter (assuming no crits or nat 1's) with only official content.

This man is such a nerd that I respect it.

Technically a Wish Spell at level 1 would be possible through a scroll or a Ring of Three Wishes, but for a scroll you will have to be a Wizard or Sorcerer and succeed a DC19 Spellcasting ability check, or the scroll is wasted. If you can somehow get the Three Wishes Ring with at least 1 charge, that's probably the better choice.

Thank you for the video.

Ok sure, but tiamat has 23 AC, even with a plus 3 hexblade weapon and proficiency you only get to +9, which means you're only going to hit her a bit more than a quarter of the time. Pair that with her mythic action Hurl Through Avernus and once you get to her second phase you basically only get every other turn, so you really only do damage on 1/8th of the turns.

this is my favorite part 0:08

Ohhhh nice stories.

I caught the irony of using a Dragonman meme for Tiamat.