How do you kill a tarrasque


Advice

1 to 50 of 124 << first < prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | next > last >>

Hi!

I was wondering what you guys think is the easiest way to kill a tarrasque.

If you have actually killed a tarrasque in game play plz mention it.

Thanks!

Sovereign Court

Sphere of Annihilation, it's not a death effect...and only a divine intervention can save you. But well, in some settings, Tarrasque are made because of divine retribution so might not the best way to kill it but without divine intervention..it works.


Pathfinder Lost Omens Subscriber

you put it in a room with a larger tarrasque


Bandw2 wrote:
you put it in a room with a larger tarrasque

But them you have another tarrasque to deal with


2 people marked this as a favorite.
Pathfinder Lost Omens Subscriber
Wizards!!!! wrote:
Bandw2 wrote:
you put it in a room with a larger tarrasque
But them you have another tarrasque to deal with

then you just get a bigger one


Bandw2 wrote:
you put it in a room with a larger tarrasque

Ooooooh, I'll supply the Barry White music!

Bow chicka wow wow.

Damn, now I'm hungry again...


Wizards!!!! wrote:

Hi!

I was wondering what you guys think is the easiest way to kill a tarrasque.

If you have actually killed a tarrasque in game play plz mention it.

Thanks!

Tarrasque's regeneration:
Regeneration (Ex) All spawn of Rovagug possess regeneration, and no form of attack can suppress this regeneration; they regenerate even if disintegrated or slain by a death effect. If a spawn of Rovagug fails a save against an effect that would kill it instantly, it rises from death 3 rounds later with 1 hit point if no further damage is dealt to its remains. It can be banished or otherwise transported as a means to save a region, but a method to kill Spawn of Rovagug has yet to be discovered.

The Tarrasque, given his regeneration, cannot be killed.
The only known method of killing him is suffocation, which overrides regeneration by rules.
Maybe you could go with "he's like dead now".
Some examples are Parasitic Soul, which has the side effect of transferring your soul into his body, which is good.
Plane shift it away where you don't care about it.
Or cage him forever, possibly inside a personal, permanent demiplane with the dead magic trait (Greater create demiplane->Permanency ->Gate to somewhere->Move the tarrasque into the plane (possibly unconscious but it isn't required)->Change the magic trait to "dead magic"-> step into the gate -> dismiss/dispel/disjoin it).

This thread gives a lot of hints on how to deal with the Tarrasque.

Liberty's Edge

10 people marked this as a favorite.

You don't kill the Tarrasque. You bribe your GM to make it go away. Homemade chocolate chip cookies might work.


Theconiel wrote:
You don't kill the Tarrasque. You bribe your GM to make it go away. Homemade chocolate chip cookies might work.

Nice!


Eltacolibre wrote:
Sphere of Annihilation, it's not a death effect...and only a divine intervention can save you. But well, in some settings, Tarrasque are made because of divine retribution so might not the best way to kill it but without divine intervention..it works.

Not necessarily- the way that its regeneration is worded doesn't limit it to disintegration or death effects, it merely lists those as examples of damage that would normally get past regular regeneration.

It was made by a god as revenge against other gods- its regeneration is supposed to be broken, and it is VERY easy to call it divine intervention.

Not that the sphere wouldn't be an effective countermeasure. Not staying dead doesn't mean the tarrasque isn't still sucked in and killed again and again since it keeps respawning in the same spot. It seems like an effective way to seal it, and the item includes methods of undoing that seal (blasting gate spells until everything gets blasted to another plane- tarrasque goes along for the ride; rod of cancellation tapped to the damn thing)

EDIT- and suffocation doesn't necessarily kill it anymore either, ElMustacho. Inner Sea gods added the Godspawn subtype, and that has been later added to the tarrasque. It includes this bit:

Inner Sea Gods wrote:

Hibernation (Ex)

Godspawn can sleep for years, decades, or even centuries and do not need to eat or breathe during these periods of dormancy. If a godspawn is forced into an environment where it cannot breathe and would suffocate, it goes into hibernation until conditions are right for it to reawaken. While in hibernation, a godspawn's damage reduction improves to 50/epic and it gains immunity to any spell or spell-like ability that allows spell resistance as well as all divination effects.

Still a method of getting it to stop for a bit, but still dangerous if cultist try to just teleport the damn thing out (plus side though- the cultist couldn't find the tarrasque- easier to hide)


Pathfinder Lost Omens Subscriber

have you seen dragonballz? he's basically buu. and the spirit bomb is the sphere of annihilation. like you burn this thing and the smoke turns into a tarrasque.


Dosent stat drain still work? Somthing that drain cha would be good. It wouldent kill the bugger but it would take him out of the figth for good.

Grand Lodge

2 people marked this as a favorite.

easy....just use Chuck Norris....


lemeres wrote:
Eltacolibre wrote:
Sphere of Annihilation, it's not a death effect...and only a divine intervention can save you. But well, in some settings, Tarrasque are made because of divine retribution so might not the best way to kill it but without divine intervention..it works.

Not necessarily- the way that its regeneration is worded doesn't limit it to disintegration or death effects, it merely lists those as examples of damage that would normally get past regular regeneration.

It was made by a god as revenge against other gods- its regeneration is supposed to be broken, and it is VERY easy to call it divine intervention.

Not that the sphere wouldn't be an effective countermeasure. Not staying dead doesn't mean the tarrasque isn't still sucked in and killed again and again since it keeps respawning in the same spot. It seems like an effective way to seal it, and the item includes methods of undoing that seal (blasting gate spells until everything gets blasted to another plane- tarrasque goes along for the ride; rod of cancellation tapped to the damn thing)

EDIT- and suffocation doesn't necessarily kill it anymore either, ElMustacho. Inner Sea gods added the Godspawn subtype, and that has been later added to the tarrasque. It includes this bit:

Inner Sea Gods wrote:

Hibernation (Ex)

Godspawn can sleep for years, decades, or even centuries and do not need to eat or breathe during these periods of dormancy. If a godspawn is forced into an environment where it cannot breathe and would suffocate, it goes into hibernation until conditions are right for it to reawaken. While in hibernation, a godspawn's damage reduction improves to 50/epic and it gains immunity to any spell or spell-like ability that allows spell resistance as well as all divination effects.

Still a method of getting it to stop for a bit, but still dangerous if cultist try to just teleport the damn thing out (plus side though- the cultist couldn't find the tarrasque- easier to hide)

You are right. Still, an hibernated Tarrasque isn't hurting anything.

Edit: I'm not getting how the cultists should be able to get it out from the plane short of divine intervention. There's no way the cultists could find the Tarrasque (no spell, except Gate, can be cast or affect something inside a dead magic plane, so no divination). The only thing that is close to something useful to the cultists is a Blackfire Adept, who can ignore some rules on where he can summon creatures (but not from).


If any has seen my other thread about "what is the hardest monster/bbeg to defeat" All of these reasons in this tread is why I think the tarrasque is the hardest monster to defeat.

Plus plz mention if you have killed a tarrasque

Thanks!


Pathfinder Lost Omens Subscriber

defeat isn't the same as kill.

Grand Lodge

Well, once upon a 3.5 ago, a combination of Magical AIDS (Cleric cast Contagion and selected HIV, since we were being eaten my White Blood Cells) and Damnation from INSIDE it's heart worked when we had to fight it. Course, the planet was half eaten by the time we managed that so it is not a complete victory.

Bonus points: We then had a planet made from a Tarrasque corpse. =)


it pretty much is.


Dafydd wrote:

Well, once upon a 3.5 ago, a combination of Magical AIDS (Cleric cast Contagion and selected HIV, since we were being eaten my White Blood Cells) and Damnation from INSIDE it's heart worked when we had to fight it. Course, the planet was half eaten by the time we managed that so it is not a complete victory.

Bonus points: We then had a planet made from a Tarrasque corpse. =)

That is awesome


Shoot it out of a cannon...into the sun.
Put on sunglasses. Que: YEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!


Pathfinder Lost Omens Subscriber
Wizards!!!! wrote:
it pretty much is.

nah you gate that thing onto the sun, it aint dead but it sure as hell didn't win that fight.


Bandw2 wrote:
Wizards!!!! wrote:
it pretty much is.
nah you gate that thing onto the sun, it aint dead but it sure as hell didn't win that fight.

I see your point


2 people marked this as a favorite.

Oh, man, I really hated all those times I got sent to the sun. So annoying. Nothing to eat, and the whole place smells a bit like farts.

Luckily, somebody always gates me back to terrorize some enemy somewhere. I always make sure to thank him by CHOMPING him last.


DM_Blake wrote:

Oh, man, I really hated all those times I got sent to the sun. So annoying. Nothing to eat, and the whole place smells a bit like farts.

Luckily, somebody always gates me back to terrorize some enemy somewhere. I always make sure to thank him by CHOMPING him last.

Mwhaa ha ha ha ha!


Don't need to kill a Tarrasque. Just send him to Jandely, let him duke it out with the Oliphant.

Grand Lodge

2 people marked this as a favorite.

Pretty much by definition the Tarrasque is unkillable short of GM Fiat that you have done enough to make it go away. (For now)

It has the sub type (plot device)


1 person marked this as a favorite.
Pathfinder Lost Omens Subscriber
DM_Blake wrote:

Oh, man, I really hated all those times I got sent to the sun. So annoying. Nothing to eat, and the whole place smells a bit like farts.

Luckily, somebody always gates me back to terrorize some enemy somewhere. I always make sure to thank him by CHOMPING him last.

*gates DM_Blake to sun, teleports back to smerth*


Wizards!!!! wrote:

Hi!

I was wondering what you guys think is the easiest way to kill a tarrasque.

If you have actually killed a tarrasque in game play plz mention it.

Thanks!

Hide the entire party somehow in its food supply. When you are all swallowed, make sure you have acid resistance, then pop out and blow it up from the inside!


Gregor Greymane wrote:
Wizards!!!! wrote:

Hi!

I was wondering what you guys think is the easiest way to kill a tarrasque.

If you have actually killed a tarrasque in game play plz mention it.

Thanks!

Hide the entire party somehow in its food supply. When you are all swallowed, make sure you have acid resistance, then pop out and blow it up from the inside!

And 18 seconds after you do that, I'm back! CHOMP!!! (this time I'll make sure to chew my food before swallowing).


Pathfinder Lost Omens Subscriber
DM_Blake wrote:
Gregor Greymane wrote:
Wizards!!!! wrote:

Hi!

I was wondering what you guys think is the easiest way to kill a tarrasque.

If you have actually killed a tarrasque in game play plz mention it.

Thanks!

Hide the entire party somehow in its food supply. When you are all swallowed, make sure you have acid resistance, then pop out and blow it up from the inside!
And 18 seconds after you do that, I'm back! CHOMP!!! (this time I'll make sure to chew my food before swallowing).

DAMN IT! already?

Shadow Lodge

Killing the Tarrasque

6 ways of getting him down and 7 ways of keeping him down.


I wish my Dm would allow me to be a tarrasque as my race.


1 person marked this as a favorite.
Pathfinder Lost Omens Subscriber
Wizards!!!! wrote:
I wish my Dm would allow me to be a tarrasque as my race.

some booklett some some third party has the tarrasqueling (sure someone will link it, PM me if no one does and your actually interested i'll look through my PDFs)

you have to eat 4 times as much(but can eat anything) and have a regeneration of 1 HP per day(allows for limb reattachment and what not but doesn't give you fast healing essentially). kinda fun, almost played one, but campaign went away.


Bandw2 wrote:
Wizards!!!! wrote:
I wish my Dm would allow me to be a tarrasque as my race.

some booklett some some third party has the tarrasqueling (sure someone will link it, PM me if no one does and your actually interested i'll look through my PDFs)

you have to eat 4 times as much(but can eat anything) and have a regeneration of 1 HP per day(allows for limb reattachment and what not but doesn't give you fast healing essentially). kinda fun, almost played one, but campaign went away.

Plz look

That looks really awesome

If you could post the link I would love it.

Thanks!


"Hey Asmodeus! 2-for-1 deal! I'll sell you my soul if you corrupt this divine critter. My only stipulation is that it cannot ever be on the Material plane."


Serisan wrote:
"Hey Asmodeus! 2-for-1 deal! I'll sell you my soul if you corrupt this divine critter. My only stipulation is that it cannot ever be on the Material plane."

But arent you killing yourself then also?


Bandw2 wrote:
Wizards!!!! wrote:
it pretty much is.
nah you gate that thing onto the sun, it aint dead but it sure as hell didn't win that fight.

Actually, it is immune to fire, and officially, a lot of generic fire creatures (along with some of the weird space creatures) live on the sun.

Since the fire creatures are actually not that impressive (elementals, efreet, salamanders- creatures that can be under CR 10)- I think regular physics are not at play here (ie- no crushing with the huge gravity).

So putting a tarrasque on the sun is more of an insult than anything (since Rovagug HATES Sarenrae).


1 person marked this as a favorite.

With heart, faith, and steel... In the end there can be only one.


I agree with lemeres


Wizards!!!! wrote:
Serisan wrote:
"Hey Asmodeus! 2-for-1 deal! I'll sell you my soul if you corrupt this divine critter. My only stipulation is that it cannot ever be on the Material plane."
But arent you killing yourself then also?

Asmodeus prefers live property to dead. You'll have to devote yourself to him.

Oh noes. Whatever shall I do?


1 person marked this as a favorite.

Try kindness.
It'll never see THAT coming.

This message brought to you by the West Casmaron Reformed Church of Rovagug.

(as the first west casmaron church was eaten by the Armageddon engine and the church had to be reformed by recruiting other faithful)

-TimD

Grand Lodge

Wizards!!!! wrote:
Dafydd wrote:

Well, once upon a 3.5 ago, a combination of Magical AIDS (Cleric cast Contagion and selected HIV, since we were being eaten my White Blood Cells) and Damnation from INSIDE it's heart worked when we had to fight it. Course, the planet was half eaten by the time we managed that so it is not a complete victory.

Bonus points: We then had a planet made from a Tarrasque corpse. =)

That is awesome

Course, that was plan A. Plan B was to pop a bag of holding into another bag of holding and inverting the universe. We were very glad plan A worked. We did not want to do plan B, again.


Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber
Wizards!!!! wrote:

Hi!

I was wondering what you guys think is the easiest way to kill a tarrasque.

If you have actually killed a tarrasque in game play plz mention it.

Thanks!

Easiest in 3.x because back then Shapeshift was awesome. The prescribed technique was Gold Dragon, fly out of reach, breath until he falls asleep, then transport him to a mountaintop where he dies from asphyxiation. Harder in Pathfinder. Harder still with the later add-ons they kept buffing him with...kind of un-unchaining the Summoner.

Sphere of Annihilation trick mentioned above still works AFAIK.

A caster/summoner can still use a Wraith (or any other monster that uses ability drain) AFAIK as well. The tarrasque is not immune to ability drain...yet. Course you'll have to keep topping the drain off...but since that doesn't heal naturally you should be good. Wraith and the like work better because they can attack the tarrasque while inside a mountain/wall/ground/etc...though technically I suppose this method may create a tarrasque wraith-spawn so you will have to accept a tarrasque-wraith spawn as a pet. :)

Should add with Mythic rules it's cake. Any martial can break 2k dpr and then you just wish the remains into a star.


Back in the original incarnation of the tarrasque (I believe that was back in 2nd ed AD&D), my plan was to find a green slime colony, collect as many vials as possible of the stuff, and then dive bomb the beast from flight. He didn't have any ability to resist what green slime did, and eventually he'd be a huge, massive pile of the stuff. Fireball the green slime mass, then finish with the wish that was required to permanently kill it.


Wizards!!!! wrote:
Bandw2 wrote:
Wizards!!!! wrote:
I wish my Dm would allow me to be a tarrasque as my race.

some booklett some some third party has the tarrasqueling (sure someone will link it, PM me if no one does and your actually interested i'll look through my PDFs)

you have to eat 4 times as much(but can eat anything) and have a regeneration of 1 HP per day(allows for limb reattachment and what not but doesn't give you fast healing essentially). kinda fun, almost played one, but campaign went away.

Plz look

That looks really awesome

If you could post the link I would love it.

Thanks!

LRGG racial guide 4


Lord Mhoram wrote:
Serisan wrote:
"Hey Asmodeus! 2-for-1 deal! I'll sell you my soul if you corrupt this divine critter. My only stipulation is that it cannot ever be on the Material plane."
LRGG racial guide 4

Thanks for the link ;)


With a very long knife.


Or you could do what my group once did upon having to deal with a Tarrasque which was to not kill it. Managed to zap it into a Mirror of Life Trapping (the one we accidentally freed it from, oops!, in the first place) then proceeded to drop it from high altitude over our not so favorite evil city thereby releasing all the occupants.


quibblemuch wrote:
With a very long knife.

About this long?

1 to 50 of 124 << first < prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | next > last >>
Community / Forums / Pathfinder / Pathfinder First Edition / Advice / How do you kill a tarrasque All Messageboards

Want to post a reply? Sign in.