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[kevin_video]

Ooh. A tarrasque that evolves every time it's 'killed' to be resistant to whatever killed it.

This could be...interesting.

Our party has fought a regular tarrasque, a fiendish tarrasque, an air-elemental tarrasque, and an axiomatic half-fiend tarrasque. I can only imagine what's next on the menu.

[Lycanthromancer]

Ooh. A tarrasque that evolves every time it's 'killed' to be resistant to whatever killed it.

This could be...interesting.

Our party has fought a regular tarrasque, a fiendish tarrasque, an air-elemental tarrasque, and an axiomatic half-fiend tarrasque. I can only imagine what's next on the menu.

A psychic warrior gestalt tarrasque.

[kevin_video]

Ooh. A tarrasque that evolves every time it's 'killed' to be resistant to whatever killed it.

This could be...interesting.

Our party has fought a regular tarrasque, a fiendish tarrasque, an air-elemental tarrasque, and an axiomatic half-fiend tarrasque. I can only imagine what's next on the menu.

A psychic warrior gestalt tarrasque.

I don't think I want to fight that one.

[bearsarebrown]

Dragonborn Tarrasque...
29 Headed Tarrasque...
Ghost Tarrasque

Oh I could do this all day.

[Lycanthromancer]

Pseudonatural tarrasque...

[kevin_video]

For those that haven't seen them, there's more tarrasques here and here (bottom of page).

[Agita]

I remember that thirty-headed Tarrasque. Once, I slapped Half-Shadow Dragon onto that for fun.

[kevin_video]

I remember that thirty-headed Tarrasque. Once, I slapped Half-Shadow Dragon onto that for fun.

It's only fun if you add the drow version of the shadow dragon so you do 1d2 negative energy instead of just 1, and it's a Reflex for half instead of Fort for none, and also take the Dragon Breath feat so you can do it 1d4 rounds.

[Cephid Arcanis]

Q212: I'm DMing and looking for 2 monsters. 1) an massive snake type (as in collosal or near) 2) a massive eagle. Both at least CR:15. Any ideas what I can use? Don't care if the flavour is weird, I'll just use the stats. Also, are there any issues in giving animals class levels? and is 1 class level=1CR?

The titanic creature template (Monster Manual II 218) makes a medium or smaller animal or vermin gargantuan.  Legendary eagle (Monster Manual II 136) is a valid target for titanic creature.  Bronze serpent (Monster Manual II 40) and dire snake (Monster Manual II 74) can both be advanced to gargantuan.  A behemoth eagle (Epic Level Handbook 169) is colossal.  A ha-naga (Epic Level Handbook 195) is a colossal snake with the face of a man. 

Typically, you shouldn't give class levels to anything without at least int 3. 

Thanks for your help guys. Some great options. Jormungandr sounds cool. Anyone know it?

[kevin_video]

Q 215a Dragon Magazine 353 introduces the Incubus. However, I was always under the impression that the succubus was interchangeable with the incubus if you wanted to play one, or have one as the NPC. Is the one in the magazine supposed to be the new standard, and forget what they said previous about the "succubus/incubus" interchangeability?
Q 215b I see that it's got 4 HD, and is CR 3, but what would the LA be for that variant?

Q 216 What's a really cheap item that'll give a person the common language, when the party members aren't willing to take a rank in Speak Language? Our party didn't realize that the succubus and incubus can't speak common.

[betrayor]

Q 215a Dragon Magazine 353 introduces the Incubus. However, I was always under the impression that the succubus was interchangeable with the incubus if you wanted to play one, or have one as the NPC. Is the one in the magazine supposed to be the new standard, and forget what they said previous about the "succubus/incubus" interchangeability?
Q 215b I see that it's got 4 HD, and is CR 3, but what would the LA be for that variant?

Q 216 What's a really cheap item that'll give a person the common language, when the party members aren't willing to take a rank in Speak Language? Our party didn't realize that the succubus and incubus can't speak common.

As a note Succubus have a pernament tongues ability......

[Lycanthromancer]

Q 216 What's a really cheap item that'll give a person the common language, when the party members aren't willing to take a rank in Speak Language? Our party didn't realize that the succubus and incubus can't speak common.

A constant-use item of psionic tongues?

[The_Mad_Linguist]

Q 216 What's a really cheap item that'll give a person the common language, when the party members aren't willing to take a rank in Speak Language? Our party didn't realize that the succubus and incubus can't speak common.

There's a pearl from MIC for 500 ish.

[kevin_video]

Q 215a Dragon Magazine 353 introduces the Incubus. However, I was always under the impression that the succubus was interchangeable with the incubus if you wanted to play one, or have one as the NPC. Is the one in the magazine supposed to be the new standard, and forget what they said previous about the "succubus/incubus" interchangeability?
Q 215b I see that it's got 4 HD, and is CR 3, but what would the LA be for that variant?

Q 216 What's a really cheap item that'll give a person the common language, when the party members aren't willing to take a rank in Speak Language? Our party didn't realize that the succubus and incubus can't speak common.

As a note Succubus have a pernament tongues ability......

Unfortunately the character's not a full-fledged succubus yet. I'll try to convince him to take a level of it in order to get tongues at 1 HD instead of taking a second warlock level.

[Kuroimaken]

Succubi = life-energy-sucking demonesses.
Incubi = life-energy-sucking demons.

Yes, they do pretty much the same things, depending on the mythos involved. Still different species however. The male spawn of a succubus is a cambion, the female spawn is another succubus.

[The_Mad_Linguist]

Succubi = life-energy-sucking demonesses.
Incubi = life-energy-sucking demons.

they're the same species - they shapeshift freely, and the term only addresses their current gender.

[kevin_video]

Succubi = life-energy-sucking demonesses.
Incubi = life-energy-sucking demons.

they're the same species - they shapeshift freely, and the term only addresses their current gender.

Incorrect. An incubus can't shapeshift. And they drain your wisdom.

It doesn't say what their favored class is, but I'm guessing it's fighter since it says that whatever it sees, it attacks and tries to get. It naturally gets sneak attack, so I thought rogue, but taking what they want and being highly trained soldiers, makes me think fighter.

[The_Mad_Linguist]

Succubi = life-energy-sucking demonesses.
Incubi = life-energy-sucking demons.

they're the same species - they shapeshift freely, and the term only addresses their current gender.

Incorrect. An incubus can't shapeshift. And they drain your wisdom.

Depends upon your campaign setting.

[kevin_video]

Succubi = life-energy-sucking demonesses.
Incubi = life-energy-sucking demons.

they're the same species - they shapeshift freely, and the term only addresses their current gender.

Incorrect. An incubus can't shapeshift. And they drain your wisdom.

Depends upon your campaign setting.

I supposed, but it mostly depends on which version of the incubus version you use. The one that says it's a 6 HD 6 LA succubus/incubus from Core that deals negative levels with a kiss, or the 4 HD 4 LA incubus from Dragon Magazine that's supposedly the real thing, who does Wisdom damage with a kiss, and is thirsty for a brutal fight.

[Shiki]

Q217: Is there a rule somewhere that says that when you gain a specific bonus feat from a class (ex: Thaumaturgist -> Augment Summoning) and that you already have said feat, you can choose another feat for which you qualify instead even if it doesn't say so in its entry text? I'd assume no, since I guess it depends on how the entry is worded to begin with... Right?

An exemple that says that you can would be the Swiftblade's Spring Attack, compared to, say, the Thaumaturgist exemple above.