Exploring Dungeons and Dragons: The Tarrasque
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@twoshoedtommy8054 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@jedediahcoulbourne1791 3 жыл бұрын
Fucking terrifying right?
@stormsurge2103 3 жыл бұрын
Makes sense, since appearantly they are peaceful rock-munchers on their home planet.
@TheSexiestGoblin 3 жыл бұрын
There's always a bigger fish
@deloreanvance6553 3 жыл бұрын
Dear God.......
@zahylon5993 3 жыл бұрын
Godzilla, King Ghidora, Rodan.
@KingFlameHawk 3 жыл бұрын
"Consuming for the purpose of going back into hibernation." So it's a Snorlax.
@clowntown3 3 жыл бұрын
When Snorlax mega evolves
@123123s3 3 жыл бұрын
@Oh Dahng boi also kinda like the deviljho of monster hunter minus the napping part.
@forgottenmemory900 3 жыл бұрын
LOL
@lylacor8401 3 жыл бұрын
except for the lazy part it's quiet more active than a snorlax.
@lylacor8401 3 жыл бұрын
@@123123s3 I think that's a better exsample.
@psyxypher3881 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@trickster3696 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@McDonaldWilliamT 3 жыл бұрын
Its nitrogen. The Tarrasque as it is most commonly known is so crazy because it has THE BENDS
@TheTsugnawmi2010 3 жыл бұрын
whats a "lithovore"? Google says nothing
@tessabakker662 3 жыл бұрын
@@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)
@McDonaldWilliamT 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheTsugnawmi2010 Basically means it lives off of eating rocks, minerals and ore
@luj6455 3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: the acid in a tarrasques stomach is often called "the acid that melts gods"
@voidjockey82 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@beastwarsFTW 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@butterbeef8504 3 жыл бұрын
@@beastwarsFTW I'll remember this
@theradioactiveplayer3461 3 жыл бұрын
*cue the gods getting high off their tits on it
@luj6455 3 жыл бұрын
@@theradioactiveplayer3461 I mean gods have stat sheets so they can in theory be killed
@McDonaldWilliamT 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@darknessbobulus 3 жыл бұрын
Starfinder Plot Incoming
@Ogrematic 3 жыл бұрын
Kind of like a rampaging Saiyan during a full moon?
@librarianseth5572 3 жыл бұрын
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
@1992jkwj 3 жыл бұрын
Nitrogen, son.
@TheSexiestGoblin 3 жыл бұрын
Rock biter be like
@StevetheWizard2591 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@librarianseth5572 3 жыл бұрын
Calvinasaurus from Calvin And Hobbes
@jedediahcoulbourne1791 3 жыл бұрын
Ever heard of Quasar or Astral Dragons?
@getthegoons 3 жыл бұрын
Maybe it's like Doomsday from Superman. Every time something kills it it revives and adapts to it.
@mutantcube1737 3 жыл бұрын
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)
@mutantcube1737 3 жыл бұрын
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
@Big_E_Soul_Fragment 3 жыл бұрын
Lord Blackwood fought this thing oh wait, wrong universe
@liamdayetti 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I was thinking the same thing hahaha
@jacobhuff3748 3 жыл бұрын
Does this explains the origins of SCP 682
@momowentboom 3 жыл бұрын
So did Able
@momowentboom 3 жыл бұрын
@@jacobhuff3748 nah it was just a reference
@howardhavardramberg7160 3 жыл бұрын
*lord blackwood left the chat*
@bigpigeon2384 3 жыл бұрын
Our GM once let me survive being eaten by a tarasque since I rolled 3 Nat twenties in row
@Soriichi 3 жыл бұрын
How did you get out?
@bigpigeon2384 3 жыл бұрын
William Sleight don’t ask
@veridiumundaunted7978 3 жыл бұрын
@@bigpigeon2384 how did you get out?
@Soriichi 3 жыл бұрын
@@bigpigeon2384 ill give you a cool story about an encounter I had with a terrasque if you do.
@anthonymugianesi9206 3 жыл бұрын
@@veridiumundaunted7978 who said he ever got out ?
@PetersaberHD 3 жыл бұрын
For an eternally long split-second I was terrified that I missed the weekend (as SCP videos show up Monday morning for me).
@Nyghtking 3 жыл бұрын
"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.
@jedediahcoulbourne1791 3 жыл бұрын
Pulling a Palpatine I see
@Nikoli492 3 жыл бұрын
That would make a good dnd story.
@islandprincess714 3 жыл бұрын
I like this
@bluefootwalking 3 жыл бұрын
A.K.A “How the Lich was actually the hero”
@Sara3346 3 жыл бұрын
@@jedediahcoulbourne1791 *if Palpatine was a good guy you mean?
@joelheinitz2139 3 жыл бұрын
The Tarrasque is tough, sure, but consider this: Tarrasque with a gun.
@hossdelgado626 3 жыл бұрын
Then it'd just be Godzilla (mouth laser)
@elrusito5034 3 жыл бұрын
MECHA-TARRASQUE, with laser canons in place of the main horns on it's head
@ottoia9126 3 жыл бұрын
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
@kylestanley7843 3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@getthegoons 3 жыл бұрын
@@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
@Wergrave 3 жыл бұрын
Tarrasque: this video Summer Martha: *cracks knuckles*
@shellknight1323 3 жыл бұрын
*( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)*
@godtier9207 3 жыл бұрын
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)
@TheSexiestGoblin 3 жыл бұрын
GUYS I KNOW HOW TO CONTAIN 682
@dragonlord1935 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheSexiestGoblin Yeah! Just throw 173 at it!
@ciaphascain2807 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@anonimase4315 3 жыл бұрын
@@ciaphascain2807 Well they were talking about 5E, so that argument about 2E is null and void
@ciaphascain2807 3 жыл бұрын
@@anonimase4315 as a DM, no information is limited by the edition.
@christopheraaron1255 3 жыл бұрын
I once had a villain put a collar of improved invisibility on one...
@nineflames2863 3 жыл бұрын
So basically the Dunwich Horror?
@GreycatRademenes 3 жыл бұрын
The Tarrasque is basically the D&D version of Doomsday from DC
@trickster3696 3 жыл бұрын
or Godzilla
@343happyspock2 3 жыл бұрын
Or SCP-682
@Attaxalotl 3 жыл бұрын
Or 682. Pretty much invincible, regenerates quickly and can eat anything. wait; 682 was based on the tarrasque, wasn't it?
@reichstein011 3 жыл бұрын
@@trickster3696 Doomzilla :)
@trickster3696 3 жыл бұрын
@@reichstein011 or a downscaled Galactus.
@Grahf0 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@sirgideonofnir6840 3 жыл бұрын
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
@robdeskrd 3 жыл бұрын
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
@joelsf4857 3 жыл бұрын
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 🤔
@speedy01247 3 жыл бұрын
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)
@kauswekazilimani3736 3 жыл бұрын
@@joelsf4857 cause their drinking 😂
@AbortedSocietyAki 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 3 жыл бұрын
It's only like 21 metres. The thing is meant to be a Kaiju yet is tiny
@AbortedSocietyAki 3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 3 жыл бұрын
@@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
@probablythedm1669 3 жыл бұрын
@@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. ;)
@WatcherMovie008 3 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile in another alternate universe, a certain maiden of Christ "tamed" the fearsome Tarrasque with her fist- *cough* I mean with her prayer.
@jacthing1 3 жыл бұрын
Could you explain this please? Not sure what your referencing.
@cedricrobertson2893 3 жыл бұрын
@@jacthing1 fate grand order st martha is a pro wrestler
@julianadams3710 3 жыл бұрын
I don’t know what your talking about, Martha said it herself, she’d never punch anything!
@jackbelmont4389 3 жыл бұрын
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
@CheshireDCat 3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@Noemys3 3 жыл бұрын
"Invincible until Regeneration" sounds like a certain SCP we all know
@TheSexiestGoblin 3 жыл бұрын
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
@goddamn7104 3 жыл бұрын
*It is* literally the 682 in the lord blackwood tales
@TheSexiestGoblin 3 жыл бұрын
@@goddamn7104 is it? I don't think it is, since they succeed in killing their "Tarrasque"
@goddamn7104 3 жыл бұрын
@@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
@goddamn7104 3 жыл бұрын
And also, it's said "you are disgust me" in french
@shadowdarter 3 жыл бұрын
5:55 random cat meows, a Tarrasque in training.
@johnconnor2572 3 жыл бұрын
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
@KSofficial141 3 жыл бұрын
I play d&d 5e and I havent encountered a tarrasque yet because I play the mines of phandelver
@johnconnor2572 3 жыл бұрын
@@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
@Inferno144 3 жыл бұрын
Once it did, did it turn right around and ate the party?
@KSofficial141 3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@KSofficial141 3 жыл бұрын
@Michael S. For us gamers and wargamers it is
@raistlarn 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@gannongarfin1634 3 жыл бұрын
This is great
@lb4581 3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like 6 wishes to me but sure
@raistlarn 3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@ThorsShadow 3 жыл бұрын
@@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."
@unholywarrior9007 3 жыл бұрын
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
@TheUnluckyEverydude 3 жыл бұрын
6:00 Show us your cat.
@TheHalogen131 3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. We need to see the kitty!
@FrozenCaravan 3 жыл бұрын
"...or being disturbed by other creatures..." "mmeoow"
@jesseberg3271 3 жыл бұрын
I got the impression he was a dog person
@TheHalogen131 3 жыл бұрын
@@jesseberg3271 Maybe he likes both?
@jesseberg3271 3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@jamieweir645 3 жыл бұрын
Breh, just....tarasque.. it, to leave you and the gang alone, easy.
@eluilus4017 Жыл бұрын
All witchcraft sacrifices torture whatever evil events deeds be stopped punished destroyed in the name of Jesus Christ!
@TheHornedKing 3 жыл бұрын
If you thought this was bad, then know that Asmodeus got a half-fiendish tarrasque down in Hell.
@Soriichi 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@Pinefr0st 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@GoatHerdt 3 жыл бұрын
They deserved it
@Pinefr0st 3 жыл бұрын
@Stellvia Hoenheim You must be new to the concept of D&D.
@DanielSan1776 3 жыл бұрын
*OH BOY! IT’S 3 AM!!*
@dustinsterling3248 3 жыл бұрын
Woot
@dalekrenegade2596 3 жыл бұрын
Eats krabby patty.
@dasdeke 3 жыл бұрын
YESSSS! Been waiting for this one!
@flibbernodgets7018 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@Lakefront_Khan 3 жыл бұрын
"MEOW." The Cat in the Background-2020
@vellwulf3874 3 жыл бұрын
You mean the cry of the Tarrasque?
@TheSexiestGoblin 3 жыл бұрын
Timestamp pls
@goddamn7104 3 жыл бұрын
5:58 hear it for a little while, the meow is heard on exactly 6:00 Also, it's very low, so hear closely
@allgoodnamesaretaken6145 3 жыл бұрын
I always homebrew the Terrasque being larger than a measly 50 feet, that feels a bit small for DnD Godzilla
@Leemon692 3 жыл бұрын
Peaceful city: *exists* Tarrasque: So anyways, I stated eatin'.
@kaffykathy8729 3 жыл бұрын
"at at least it can't fly, right?" And then it starts to grow wings. Where is your god now?
@McDonaldWilliamT 3 жыл бұрын
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
@riswanda2620 3 жыл бұрын
Well shit
@decent2613 3 жыл бұрын
Tarrasque: I'll destroy everything 7 half-elf Clerics: nah
@CaKoMi 3 жыл бұрын
At 6:00 I can hear Exploring’s cat meowing 😂
@GoatHerdt 3 жыл бұрын
Oh my *goodness* thank you for pointing that out! k i t t y
@jonathangates8906 2 жыл бұрын
Love the cat meow at 8:57 as if to say 'yeah that's right you'd better hope there's only one'
@SouthernCanadianSoup 3 жыл бұрын
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
@corbinrysavy9297 3 жыл бұрын
I would also like to see that
@petergray2712 3 жыл бұрын
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
@sigmar4564 3 жыл бұрын
Lord Blackwood needs to make a crossover to D&D
@DFloyd84 3 жыл бұрын
How would you stat a sea slug?
@hyndenburg2619 3 жыл бұрын
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...
@kenpanderz672 3 жыл бұрын
containment breach! send in MTF Delta-20 "Dungeon Masters"
@darci7551 3 жыл бұрын
Glad we finally got a tarrasque video from you. One of my favorites from D&D. Video’s awesome by the way.
@trekkasavallie8603 3 жыл бұрын
Love it I remember reading about this awesome creature way back in the day, so nostalgic!
@Renegadebane 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@natem.9208 3 жыл бұрын
"With over 1400hp, making it nearly unkillable." Martha, Level 50 Priestess: "Adorable."
@tokenfinnishguy8714 3 жыл бұрын
Priest, prepare the peasant railgun!
@goldengaruda8935 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@vFANGv 2 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@McDonaldWilliamT 2 жыл бұрын
@@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
@medicgaming9117 2 жыл бұрын
PREPARE THE MAGICAL ACID COATED BALL BEARING SHOTGUN (2 rogues at level one can give you 2000 ball bearings)
@2Potates 3 жыл бұрын
The Tarrasque i'm using is closer to the one from French myth. Love how the 2e one looks like a deathclaw.
@jappperon7012 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@chadlynch1551 3 жыл бұрын
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. . 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.
@breadtoast1036 Жыл бұрын
why not just toss it into the astral sea and be done with it
@chadlynch1551 Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@alexandersmith1777 3 жыл бұрын
Looking to run a Tarrasque themed campaign after completing the Lost Mines of Phandelver module. This video was vary informative! Thank you for uploading!
@abcdefghijk123456100 3 жыл бұрын
I really like the d&d exploration keep it coming!
@TheKow278 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading not only one of my favorite topics in dnd, but for continuing this series in general. Me and the others who keep coming back to this are enjoying this and your videos are actually what got me into dnd. I'm very thankful, and as someone who loves the scp vids too, I'm happy you do these here and there to mix things up. I wish you the best and I hope you continue to do this series for a while 💙
@dustinsterling3248 3 жыл бұрын
Futaba is best girl
@justadude.9969 2 жыл бұрын
That sounds absolutely terrifying. Lemme grab my great sword.
@slothures 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@louiemercado5595 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@Pinefr0st 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@bonbondurjdr6553 3 жыл бұрын
Pretty cool! Thanks for the review!
@chalkybutter1302 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@TheFreakedoutduck 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@ImmortalLemon 3 жыл бұрын
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
@nicolasguzman3406 3 жыл бұрын
I love these DnD videos
@jozzemexure5374 3 жыл бұрын
Nice video haha. I like your little show
@SerathDarklands Жыл бұрын
It makes a good pet if you're powerful enough to control it.
@calebmurray4438 3 жыл бұрын
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. :)
@CaldrichGalhurst 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@xXRickTrolledXx 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@kaso9984 3 жыл бұрын
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
@akshaygupta9021 3 жыл бұрын
Your channel is growing faster Keep going
@dovahkiin_brasil 3 жыл бұрын
The thing you throw at the pary when you want death. Then a wish spell teleport your planned boss battle into the chaos abyss
@dhruvgarg1673 3 жыл бұрын
God damn love tarrasque and their stories
@Toyall1 3 жыл бұрын
Finally! More D&D content
@Thea1d2r3i4a5n6 3 жыл бұрын
im likin this jazz, im glad i found you
@kittenburger_prime 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@Nelo_Wolf 3 жыл бұрын
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
@TheMetastasia 3 жыл бұрын
You want to make a Sword of your remains?
@mossystoneproductions905 3 жыл бұрын
Oh man, monster hunter getting a new elder "dragon"
@Nelo_Wolf 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheMetastasia I said it the remains of it
@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 3 жыл бұрын
@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
@dustinsterling3248 3 жыл бұрын
M O N S T E R H U N T E R
@party4881 3 жыл бұрын
I don’t play this or anything like that but I enjoy it a lot love the lore keep it up
@ninjabothandyman6063 3 жыл бұрын
HELL YEAH loved hearing about this thing from the astonishing Lord Blackwood tales !!! Absolutely loved everything about it !! Nice work mate
@Okkusen 3 жыл бұрын
The Torrasque from Starcraft 2 comes also into my mind xD
@johannaweichsel3602 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@davidgreene272 2 жыл бұрын
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
@AGrayPhantom 3 жыл бұрын
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!
@McDonaldWilliamT 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@ADragonSpeaks 2 жыл бұрын
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...
@slimelich 3 жыл бұрын
Your voice puts my brain in SCP mode, so it feels like you're describing an scp to me
@jeremyhorner9531 Жыл бұрын
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.
@Babbleplay 3 жыл бұрын
I had a good chunk of a campaign devoted to players hunting down and foiling plots of/killing members of the Tarrasque death cult.
@moonringXD 3 жыл бұрын
Excellent video! You should do Spellweaver or gith sometime!
@wiccans4618 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@Sirodemirra 3 жыл бұрын
The first time I heard the name Tarrasque was from Starcraft, an immortal super op ultralisk,
@johannaweichsel3602 3 жыл бұрын
Yes!!
@sethcoleman4890 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@zh9664 3 жыл бұрын
Cat meow at 8:55
@hopegallows1392 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@speedy01247 3 жыл бұрын
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)
@oldered5663 3 жыл бұрын
That was what scp-682 called a really bad day....
@raitoiro 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@deathbunny748 3 жыл бұрын
The tarrasque keeps evolving as a creature with each editions
@anthonylewis5503 3 жыл бұрын
I want to learn how you are able to make a story so convincing
@Century_Chandra 3 жыл бұрын
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
@neomatic8096 3 жыл бұрын
I love that the tarrasques stomach is the only canonical thing able to destroy Artifacts
@charachristopoulou3122 3 жыл бұрын
You should make a video on the mindflayers' worm things
@TheUnluckyEverydude 3 жыл бұрын
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?
@danders1094 3 жыл бұрын
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 😂
@TheUnluckyEverydude 3 жыл бұрын
@@danders1094 honestly that fight is what really taught me how strong rage can be. She was tanking everything.
@theenderdestruction2362 10 ай бұрын
@@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
@VictorianTimeTraveler 3 жыл бұрын
I love magic that has useless or detrimental effects It just matches a certain side of my sense of humor
@wamlythecrabgod2199 3 жыл бұрын
Me with my (slightly homebrew) Artificer-made magic Gauss cannon: *YOU PICKED THE WRONG HOUSE FOOL*
@jacobbishop577 3 жыл бұрын
Love it!
@alexandercolefield9523 3 жыл бұрын
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.
@udhede 3 жыл бұрын
Saw this and got excited thinking he’d graced us with a second SCP video in the same week 😔💔
@krazytaxicabbie 3 жыл бұрын
Well that was cool!