Talk:Tarrasque with Wizard Levels

Who Awakened the Tarrasque?

Wait a minute, I'm confused. Was it the narrator who made the Tarrasque sentient, or the lich?

Tarrasque cannot be Awakened

Nice story, but the Tarrasque is a Magical Beast. Awaken only works on trees and animals. And for it to succeed, you have to make a Will save equal to DC 10 + the animal’s current HD. Even if the Tarrasque were a valid target for the spell, the Will save would be DC 58+. Just how high a Will save bonus does that Lich have?

Not to mention that being an Undead creature, a Lich has immunity to all mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, and morale effects). It really should be impossible to intimidate one. At least, intimidate seems like a mind-affecting attack to me.

Your DM was playing very fast and loose with the rules with this one.

YEAH, STOP HAVING FUN, FUCKSHIT! How DARE your GM ignore the rules a little bit in favour of doing awesome things where everyone involved had a radical time? I swear, people like this who think that... ugh... having fun is the objective of a roleplaying game just make me sick, you know? I'm fairly sure you're not a real person unless you slavishly obey the RAW with no deviation whatsoever. I wish it was legal for WotC to send out the contract killers on these guys. --87.194.31.223 11:18, 4 May 2012 (BST)

Roll a speech check before posting that. If you roll a 1 you choke on your tongue and die. It's realistic.

But to the point, he isn't saying to stop having fun, he's just pointing out that according to the letter of the rules this shouldn't work. And that it might be someone writing something cool rather than something a real DM actually let them get away with doing. Tim 11:47, 4 May 2012 (BST)

Exactly. It's a nice story, and if a particular DM wants to allow this, I have no problem with it. But the DM would need to ignore the rules more than 'just a little bit' for this to happen. From a rules PoV, this story has more holes in it than swiss cheese.

Honestly, though, plenty of DMs do exactly that, especially as your characters get more and more powerful. Homebrewing an awakened Tarrasque to create this great battle of epic proportions sounds like great fun to me. DM is as DM does, sometimes you just forgo the rules and make something crazy happen.

Did I just fucking read the D&D version of Pacific Rim? (TL;DR version: A sub-epic level wizard faces off against a sentient Tarrasque with Wizard levels and ends up flying inside it with an airship and blowing both of them up)