WizKids’ ‘Tarrasque’ Towers Like The Titan It Is!
by Anton Kromoff
Welcome to the table,
There are a lot of monsters in the landscape of tabletop that can conjure worry in the hearts of players. Beholders typically are the only thing that throws me personally off my game, but dragons, aboleths, illithids, and bodaks can really ruin a player’s day.
One of the most powerful and arguably least used creatures to hit the table is a beast of such power and proportion that it is thought of in a lot of circles as a world-ender, a mythological threat given flesh that spells doom for anything and everything in its path.
That creature is the Tarrasque.
Who guessed it? I mean it was in the title of the article that you clicked on, so that feels like a silly question but nonetheless, the Tarrasque is the creature in question. The fine folks over at WizKids have produced one heck of a colossal miniature that can tower over and terrorize your table.
I love they made this thing, because the Tarrasque is easily one of the most iconic and feared monsters in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. Traditionally it manifests as this colossal, reptilian behemoth resembling a wingless horned dragon. In my humble opinion, it also borrows a few design elements from the original version of the owlbear. This thing is a freaking nightmarish Godzilla like death turtle that toddles through the landscape-wrecking house with rage filed abandon.
In terms of gameplay, the Tarrasque is often a nearly unstoppable force, possessing deep pockets full of hit points, an AC that even a god has an issue hitting, typically five attacks a round… that’s six seconds for those new to the table.
On top of all of this, the toddling tyrant can just decide it wants to succeed on a saving throw if it wants. No dice, no reason, other than the monster does not feel like dealing with whatever it was almost everything else has to deal with.
At the D&D table, encountering the iconic Tarrasque is considered a rare and terrifying event, but it can also be a ton of fun. The WizKids pre-painted miniature is easily one of the best ways to capture the scale of this combat at your table. Not to mention, it also just looks fantastic on a shelf towering above your other miniatures, books, and dice towers like the towering death beast that it is.
You can grab a pre-painted and unpainted version over at this link.
Until next time, as a fun bit of lore for you, the Terrasque was featured in French folklore. It had a lion head, turtle shell body, six legs with bear claws, and a snake’s tail, and on top of all that to add some extra wackiness it had poisonous breath. .
This seriously is one of the most iconic and amusing things in D&D and I adore it. I also fully think it should wander around like an angry toddler just wrecking things because from that perspective it still remains horrifying but now it’s unpredictable and could just want a nap or cereal or something. Go forth and roll dice my friends!
