Okay /tg/ I need you to evaluate my plan on degeating terrasque

There are LOTS of problems with this, assuming you're playing some kind of D&D.

Fall damage is capped at 20d6, not even close to enough to kill, or even bloody the Tarrasque.

The Tarrasque has an innate Spell Resistance of 36, (which applies to effect spells like Teleport), meaning the wizard has to roll 16 or higher on a d20 (d20+caster level), or cast the whole thing again next round.

In 5E, the Tarrasque is immune to slashing, piercing, & bludgeoning damage from nonmagical weapons, so even if you could work out where exactly it was going to fall, you'd need to somehow enchant a 25ft by 25ft area of ground, for it to even take 20d6 from the fall.

Otherwise, it just leaps out of the crater, dusts itself off, then goes to ravage the nearby locales as normal.

>>49980643

Wouldn't it be better to wait until the bowl hit space and put the Tarrasque into orbit as a new satellite? It may be strong, but it can't fucking overpower gravitational pull from a stellar body.

>>49980924
This has the Planet Hulk problem. You do that and somehow the tarry reappears a year later, with a bunch of alien followers and very pissed off.

>>49981042
We build a space station on terrasque and call it new terra

>>49980924
That is not how orbits work.
Just because you are in space, doesn't mean you are in orbit.
All its gonna do is make a very angry orbital drop terrasque.

>>49981092
Wait how much fire damage would terrasque take during re-entry

>>49981092
Tarrasque isn't immune to fire damage, right? That might actually work.

>>49981092
>>49981099
Change of plan then, elevate terrasque to roughly 300 miles or 400 just to be sure and then just so terrasque will take the maximum amount of damage have platforms that dissipate seconds after terrasque's impact every 200 feet as each time terrasque is caught by one he(or she) will get 20d6 to every platform hit

Also have any of you played pacifist wizards yet?

>>49980643
Where will it land?
Are you on a rotating planet or a flat plane? Because the answer to the second question will greatly influence the answer to the first.

>>49981164
Rotating planet

>>49981147
That distance is more than enough for it to burn up in reentry.
Even if it dissipates or reflects 90% of the potential energy (which is a very generous estimate ), it would receive 137 kJ/kg.
If the Tarrasque was made out of water, it would be enough to raise his temperature by 33000 Kelvin.
I think your Tarrasque is well done.

sources
Newton's law of universal gravitation
Laws of thermodynamics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water

>>49980838
As I remember falling damage isn't actually considered bludgeoning or weapon damage at all, it should take full effect.

>>49981042
The terrasque isn't much of a jumper, just ditch him on the moon.

>>49981327
>Ditch tarrasque on the moon
>Get invaded by army of angry moonfolk with a tarrasque in tow

Yeah, nah.

>>49981491
Fine. Ditch him on the sun.

>>49981557
It's too busy fighting a trillion of lions

>>49981292
Our game-mechanics don't account for a realistic fall-damage, but no one would be crazy enough to have a setting with unrealistic energy-absorption, right?

>>49981709
Well that's a three-way then.

>>49981811
>implying that was realistic
Orbital dropping has a ton of funky physics going on, and transfer of heat into the falling item is a whole another set of them.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/28/

>>49981818
The happiest Tarrasque that ever was

>>49981837
But will it kill terrasque

>>49981837
I was just poking fun at the idea that our simulation of "fall damage" is limited to "maxes out at 20d6", while computing kJ/kg-energy absorption for reentry heat is fair game.

Feels like it would be fair enough to just ask for a house-ruling on fall damage for a critter that weighs 130 tons. (according to 3rd ed. )

>>49980838
Falling damage is sort of omni-potent in a sense that unless you have something that specifically functions against it it will do the damage.

>>49980643
>Tarasque run towards you
>fall into a it so large that it has no control over it's fall as it can't reach side
>at the bottom is a portal to outer space
>tarasque is now in a vacuum and will probably die there
>the portal now open sucks all the air of out the world and kills everybody

And with that you've killed the most powerful creature in the world by killing everybody else too. Think of all the experience you get from it

>>49981098
>>49981099
>>49981292
>>49981906
The problem with modelling re-entry on something so large and fleshy is that it is likely to act as it's own ablative shield. It wouldn't uniformly heat, but instead have the flesh at the side facing prograde slowly burn away.

I do believe a terrasque would be able to survive depending on the angle it entered. It's back would be ideal.

>>49981934
The rate of airflow wouldn't be too bad. 197 cubic meters of air per second per square meter of portal. Sounds like alot but honestly the average firecracker moves more air.

>>49982401
Of course if it were coming in faster than just falling normally, that window of survivability would quickly close. First person orbital bombardment is a hell of a drug.