😈 : Running the Pathfinder 2e Tarrasque in 5e with no changes
GM: it rolls to attack. Oh that’s a 2
Player: PFF easy
GM: for a total of 47, dealing 70 damage and you are grabbed.
GM: for its other 5 attacks …
My favourite is its reflect ability. If the players pull some meta bullshit like dropping tungsten rods from orbit the tarrasque can just play an uno reverso card and nuke the players.
3.5’s tarrasque also had a reflective carapace.
I’m not a fan of the reflect ability. It’s just immunity, but a bit worse if the party doesn’t know about it ahead of time.
It would be much more interesting if it didn’t negate attacks it fails to reflect.
I had the idea to do the reverse and throw the 5e Tarrasque at my players in my PF2e when they are around level 8* or so. Basically using one of the most powerful DnD bosses as a mid level side boss.
* I haven’t done the exact math yet
They look an awful lot like Edalyn and Lilith Clawthorne, is that a coincidence?
I like add2e Tarasque
Reduce it to -100 hp and then use a wish spell to (temporarily) finish it off
Running it as a swarm of Tarrasques summoned by the Dark Priest Mathias of Mecier
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Oof. I wouldn’t like that at all. I’m already bothered with how many player powers just shut off certain parts of the game. Also putting it on the monster side seems like it will make the game an arms race of things not mattering.
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Really? That second teleport ability sounds super fun. It means the players have to run around the battlefield fighting the monster, and interacting with the terrain, not just standing in front of each other trading blows. Plus it only happens once a round anyway so you can strategize around it.
The first ability also sounds super cool. At that level there are ways around these things anyway. The friendly casters may have teleports of fly spells, players have dimension door and other crazy abilities from their various magic items they’ve collected for 20 levels, and a DC 27 save at that level probably isn’t that hard to hit anyway.
Just goes to show how subjective fun is I suppose because that description makes me more excited to fight that then the standard bag of hit points 5e tarrasque.
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Holy shit, that thing is utterly terrifying.
Does anyone actually run an unmodified 5e tarrasque? Outside of a joke campaign?
I want to see a campaign where you have to protect an endangered tarrasque from a group of aarakocra that are trying to poach it.
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