James Risner Owner - D20 Hobbies |
Yorien |
Ah finally a way to kill the Tarrasque...just drown it :)
Nope, Tarrasque has a specific, "elite" form of regeneration that works even with the creature "dead" and eventually resurrects her.
Regeneration (Ex) No form of attack can suppress the tarrasque's regeneration—it regenerates even if disintegrated or slain by a death effect. If the tarrasque 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 inflicted upon its remains. It can be banished or otherwise transported as a means to save a region, but the method to truly kill it has yet to be discovered.
Thus, even if the Tarrasque dies by drowning or suffocation ("slain by a death effect"), Regen explicitly stays active for her, so in three turns she'll rise from death and the drowning cycle will restart (at GM's choice, cycle may not happen immediately, although it's expected Tarrasque would have water on her lungs... maybe no air, but she must immediately start rolling CON, and slowly working her way to she shore. ).
Drowning might be an option to at least keep her in some kind of semi-permanent drowning cycle... but, centuries later, nobody will remember the monstuosity that lurks in the depths, waiting for just a breath of fresh air, to unleash a new era or horror... Nonetheles to say, a Tarraque emerging from the oceans after many years of drowning cycles will be "extremely" pissed...
Yorien |
I'm pretty sure suffocation isn't a death effect. I'd allow a character who drowned to be restored with Raise Dead.
You're absolutely right, I meant that drowned is an effect that applies the "dead" condition, but is clearly not a "death" effect since those have specific rules. It's the part that says "an effect that would kill it instantly" that made my mistake since the last stage of drowning is essentially an effect that "kills instantly" (although she actually started dying a couple rounds before), something also stated on the tarrasques elite regen rules .
Still, Tarrasque's regen would essentially work the same way, no matter it dies from a "death", or a "dead" effect... three rounds later she'd revive unless extra damage is constantly being dealt to the body to prevent it. And, since drowning doesn't deal HP damage (instead, it changes HP values at specific stages), other sources of damage must be used instead...
Maybe drowning her on an acid pit so it keeps dissolving the regenerated tissues?
Yorien |
Tarrasque is immune to acid, though not to cold, so "buried in very cold ice" could be a valid win.
Yeah... XD. Also inmune to fire. Uncheck volcanoes.
She's also not immune to electricity. Maybe whe could pinchusion her with lightning rods and lead her to a permanently stormy area.
Vidmaster7 |
Matthew Downie wrote:Tarrasque is immune to acid, though not to cold, so "buried in very cold ice" could be a valid win.Yeah... XD. Also inmune to fire. Uncheck volcanoes.
She's also not immune to electricity. Maybe whe could pinchusion her with lightning rods and lead her to a permanently stormy area.
Leave her? on Jupiter that will solve the problem
ryric RPG Superstar 2011 Top 32 |
Using gate to put the tarrasque on the Elemental Plane of Water is a fairly traditional method of at least disposing of it indefinitely. It drowns, comes back 3 rounds later, gets a few rounds of swimming with nowhere to go until it drowns again, and so forth.
Not killed but the problem is at least somewhat solved, at least for the prime material plane.
Yorien |
Using gate to put the tarrasque on the Elemental Plane of Water is a fairly traditional method of at least disposing of it indefinitely. It drowns, comes back 3 rounds later, gets a few rounds of swimming with nowhere to go until it drowns again, and so forth.
Not killed but the problem is at least somewhat solved, at least for the prime material plane.
Solved until a Marid sends the carcass back to town along with a "Don't f****ng planeshift your crap to our plane" message attached.... XD.