just checking, I made a build for a one shot where a guy I knew said you cant go toe to toe with the tarrasque as a martial and I made character, long story short, monk+war lord+dragon fury+barb (alignment change towards the end) plus the right style feats and a certain stance equaled tarrasque chunks.
I need to know if I did it right though. okay, I used combat stamina + dragon style and dragon ferocity to get double my strength mod on each hit and was in iron hide stance to double that, so was to I use quadruple my strength or not?
It would be X3.
The general rule is that if you're doubling something, you add a multiplier to the original value. This is commonly misconstrued with using the Lance while Mounted, and scoring a Critical Hit. People think "ZOMG, X6 DAMAGE!" when it's actually just X4. Even with a feat like Spirited Charge, which triples the damage dealt via Lance instead of just Double, it's still only a X5 critical.
That being said, I don't think the damage is really the issue. If you get it Unconscious, you can go into Kraken Style, and then proceed to auto-suffocate it, it would die due to being unable to breathe.
Could also try to make it starve/thirst to death, but who has that kind of time?
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just checking, I made a build for a one shot where a guy I knew said you cant go toe to toe with the tarrasque as a martial and I made character, long story short, monk+war lord+dragon fury+barb (alignment change towards the end) plus the right style feats and a certain stance equaled tarrasque chunks.
I need to know if I did it right though. okay, I used combat stamina + dragon style and dragon ferocity to get double my strength mod on each hit and was in iron hide stance to double that, so was to I use quadruple my strength or not?
Big T is over-rated, and if that guy doesn't think a martial can take it down to 0 hit points his game-fu is weak.
That being said, I don't think the damage is really the issue. If you get it Unconscious, you can go into Kraken Style, and then proceed to auto-suffocate it, it would die due to being unable to breathe.
Could also try to make it starve/thirst to death, but who has that kind of time?
Hibernate prevents the Tarrasque from suffocating or starving.
Consider some theme music for your One Punch Man
Dragon Style: +1/2 Str to the first attack.
Dragon Ferocity: An additional 1.5x Str to all attacks in a round.
Total: 1.5x damage to all attacks, +1/2 Str to the first = 2x Str first. 1.5x subsequent.
Iron Hide Stance is from Path of War, and doubles Str mod to damage.
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Iron Hide Stance is from Path of War, and doubles Str mod to damage.
Ok so this whole thread is in the wrong forum?
Should be in the 3rd party rules forum.
I can't read Iron Hide, but at best it is essentially "+1.0x STR" so at best this would be "+3.0x STR and +2.5x STR for the rest."
Combining them breaks a general principal the game is designed around that no attack deals more than 1.5x STR. Yes some things hit 2.0x STR, but hey.
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Who learnt you to math? Everyone knows 2x2=3.
It's a little easier to think of the multiplying rules as additional percents.
x2 is 100% more damage
x3 is 200% more damage
x4 is 300% more damage
So, x2 + x2 is 200% more damage or x2 + x3 is 300% more damage.
There is that. It also helps to think of multipliers as exponents (which, when multiplied, are simply added together).
Damage squared plus damage cubed is damage^5.
Damage x5 != damage^5.
I hit with a lance and do average 20 damage. Spirited charge (x3) 60, crit (x5) 100.
By your calculations it would be 20^3 and 20^5, which are 8,000 and 320,000 respectively.
That being said, I don't think the damage is really the issue. If you get it Unconscious, you can go into Kraken Style, and then proceed to auto-suffocate it, it would die due to being unable to breathe.
Could also try to make it starve/thirst to death, but who has that kind of time?
Hibernate prevents the Tarrasque from suffocating or starving.
Consider some theme music for your One Punch Man
Tarrasque has no such ability. There's nothing in the statblock that says it has such immunities.
Therefore, suffocation/starvation still works. Just beat it down until it's unconscious, then either throw it into a body of water (forcing suffocation), or use the Kraken Style feat chain and force suffocation out in 3 rounds.
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That being said, I don't think the damage is really the issue. If you get it Unconscious, you can go into Kraken Style, and then proceed to auto-suffocate it, it would die due to being unable to breathe.
Could also try to make it starve/thirst to death, but who has that kind of time?
Hibernate prevents the Tarrasque from suffocating or starving.
Consider some theme music for your One Punch Man
Tarrasque has no such ability. There's nothing in the statblock that says it has such immunities.
Therefore, suffocation/starvation still works. Just beat it down until it's unconscious, then either throw it into a body of water (forcing suffocation), or use the Kraken Style feat chain and force suffocation out in 3 rounds.
Not in the bestiary, but there is in Inner Sea Gods.
Not in the bestiary, but there is in Inner Sea Gods.
That being said, I don't think the damage is really the issue. If you get it Unconscious, you can go into Kraken Style, and then proceed to auto-suffocate it, it would die due to being unable to breathe.
Could also try to make it starve/thirst to death, but who has that kind of time?
Hibernate prevents the Tarrasque from suffocating or starving.
Consider some theme music for your One Punch Man
Tarrasque has no such ability. There's nothing in the statblock that says it has such immunities.
Therefore, suffocation/starvation still works. Just beat it down until it's unconscious, then either throw it into a body of water (forcing suffocation), or use the Kraken Style feat chain and force suffocation out in 3 rounds.
That's a specific kind of Tarrasque. They otherwise generally don't have that ability.
Also, it doesn't even give a description of what it actually does. The only thing I could find that resembled it was that there was some sort of ritual thing (Akata's make a cocoon) that makes them not need food/water. It still certainly needs to breathe. Sure, starvation/thirst is out, but quite frankly there's no real effects that work that way.
There's no mention of being immune to suffocation, or not needing to breathe. Therefore, they can still be killed via Kraken Style feat chain, or being banished into a plane that has no oxygen to breathe with.
Damage x5 != damage^5.
I hit with a lance and do average 20 damage. Spirited charge (x3) 60, crit (x5) 100.
By your calculations it would be 20^3 and 20^5, which are 8,000 and 320,000 respectively.
Similar concept, I said, not same math.
That being said, I don't think the damage is really the issue. If you get it Unconscious, you can go into Kraken Style, and then proceed to auto-suffocate it, it would die due to being unable to breathe.
Could also try to make it starve/thirst to death, but who has that kind of time?
Hibernate prevents the Tarrasque from suffocating or starving.
Consider some theme music for your One Punch Man
Tarrasque has no such ability. There's nothing in the statblock that says it has such immunities.
Therefore, suffocation/starvation still works. Just beat it down until it's unconscious, then either throw it into a body of water (forcing suffocation), or use the Kraken Style feat chain and force suffocation out in 3 rounds.
The "updated Tarrasque" is part of a category of monsters known as "Spawn of Destruction" (Inner Sea Bestiary). They all have that as a special quality.
Specific text:
Spawn of Divine Destruction can sleep for years, decades, or even centuries and do not need to eat or breathe during these periods of dormancy, though they breathe normally and eat ravenously and almost constantly once they've been awakened. If a spawn 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 spawn'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.
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That's a specific kind of Tarrasque. They otherwise generally don't have that ability.
There's only one Tarrasque.
That's splitting hairs at the molecular level at best.
If you want to chuck logic that far, a creature is part of an environment, and you are a creature, therefore you choking it is the environment not letting it breathe.
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That's splitting hairs at the molecular level at best.
If you want to chuck logic that far, a creature is part of an environment, and you are a creature, therefore you choking it is the environment not letting it breathe.
So - only non-native outsiders can choke it to death because they're inherently from outside the environment?
They're from a different environment.
