I have a question

Basically it is a last stand against a walking (or should I say flying) TPK. My paladin sacrificed himself to bye the party time to run away

I would love to hear more about this.

ok I'll start writing

ok here it is

Ok, for a bit of context before the story begins. I have an average of 9 people show up to the dnd sessions. So, the only way the DM has order is by doing “karma rolls”. Karma rolls are just randomly generated punishments e.g. knees somehow disappear, spikes appear out of the ground, or a fight happens. There are many more (I think he said 100+ unique punishments). The way this began was when the party was fighting over peace of loot (was homebrew I think) that could be sold for a lot of money, or crafted into powerful items. Out, of the game, we were yelling at each other (mainly me as I was carrying it because of 17 STR). We were in a library so this was made worse.

So, the DM rolled for “serious” punishment. He got Combat. When rolled for a CR, 30. And, as he always changes stuff, the tarrasque was flying. Now the party was freaking out as we were level 3 at the time (and the DM split XP equally even if the person wasn’t in combat) so we thought it was a TPK. My paladin of tempest just stepped forward, turned around and said “run, I’ll distract it”. The artificer was about to ask him to hand over the elemental core (like I said homebrew as I don’t think it is in the game). He just replied “this monstrosity is after it, now run while you can”

The party did so, but the wizard stayed as we were good friends in-game and IRL. The tarrasque was almost on top of where we just were by then. The wizard cast haste on me while I was trying to flank it (spell scroll he bought). My character while trying to get the tarrasque attention held up the core and yelled “Is this what you want, come and take it you overgrown gecko”. The DM had me roll intimidation, I rolled an 18.

So, the tarrasque turned toward my character end let out a roar so loud it made the earth tremble “frightful presence, I succeeded the save”. All whilst, the wizard was casting buffs on me and the party was running away. My paladin drew his sword and cast “compel duel” and held his action. The tarrasque charged at my character, and he was muttering a prayer in thanks to tempest for this glorious death. Just as the tarrasque was about to attack my character cast “protection from evil and good”, the DM ruled that because it was an oath spell it didn’t affect my 2 remaining spell slots. That pared with my 23 AC and cloak of displacement made the tarrasqe miss all 5 of its attacks (DM definitely fudged all those rolls).

On my turn, I attacked it twice (haste was still active) and 1 attack hit with a critical. I divine smite dealing (even though it did not matter as there was no way I was killing this thing) 35 damage. All I did was make it mad. The wizard cast slow on the tarrasque (also spell scroll) as he did he yell “the laws of time are mine” (IRL). the DM found this funny and said the tarrasque failed the save without even rolling the tarrasque attacked the wizard and because it rolled the disadvantage with 4 dice it got a nat 1, and the DM had it slap itself with its tail.

My turn again and I just had my character say “go, while you still can, I’ll kill this thing from the inside.”. Once he did he jump strate into the tarrasque roaring mouth slicing its oesophagus as I went down. This delt a lot of damage, not enough to kill it be enough to make it vomit me out. I held my main action in case this did happen so it would cancel out the advantage from being prone. It still stomp on me and I took 28 damage. I somehow survived so in an attempt to waste its time, to give the party more time I did a tactical retreat.

So, with haste, I managed to move 90ft away from it, and take the doge action. The tarrasque could move 70ft from flying so its tail attack could reach me. Or, in other words, I bravely ran away and the tarrasque slapped me to death with its tail.

tell me if you want a part 2 as more happened in the next session.

Yes this is getting interesting. I would really like a part 2. And if i remember hearing somewhere (don't remember where tho) that a tarrasque is considered a apocalypse? correct me if i'm wrong tho. but yeah I would like a part 2.

no, it is consider the end of nations, the end of empires. feasting on everything in sight. where ever it is a trail of death and destruction follow.

watch MR rheix video on the tarrasqe. it cover a lot of interesting lore

ok. thank you.

welcome

😁

I want part 2

working on it

PART 2 Please!

No, the DM cut the storyline

Oh ok

I don't know nuthin bout DnD

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