D&D 5E Check out Level Up: Advanced 5E's TARRASQUE!

If you've been following the Level Up forum, you may know of the A-Z monster thread where a monster from Level Up's Monstrous Menagerie has been previewed every few days for the last few weeks. This week we reached T, and for T we could only choose the legendary TARRASQUE! In this sample, you can see many of the things we done to level up 5E's monster book, including adjusting the math and CR calculations, giving creatures interesting abilities, and adding tools for every monster such as signs, encounter tables with sample treasure hoards (don't worry you can randomly regenerate them too), legends and lore tables for PCs to roll on, and more.

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Monster Tools — Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E)

As you may know by now, we’ve done a lot of work with monsters in Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition.

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Encounter Building Preview — Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition (A5E)

Along with new monster math and CR values, we have a robust encounter building system (in which you can combine both monsters and exploration challenges).

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[overgeeked]

Elite? Shouldn’t it be a solo?

Oh, bloodied. I miss bloodied.

 

[Waller]

Elite? Shouldn’t it be a solo?

In a game that isn't Level Up: A5E, perhaps! IIRC they said elite monsters are equal to two regular monsters of that CR. It's all new monster math.

 

[overgeeked]

In a game that isn't Level Up: A5E, perhaps! IIRC they said elite monsters are equal to two regular monsters of that CR. It's all new monster math.

It was a 4E reference, along with bloodied.

How new is the math? Is it the same Blog of Holding 5E MM on a Business Card that’s been out for years?

 

[Waller]

It was a 4E reference, along with bloodied.

How new is the math? Is it the same Blog of Holding 5E MM on a Business Card that’s been out for years?

That I don't know. But I do know Paul Hughes headed up their monster book, so maybe?

 

[Teemu]

Neat! Although I kind of wish its claws and horns attacks had something extra to go along with the damage. Nothing big, just a bit of added complexity (which would be fine on a tarrasque!). The same for the breath weapon. Maybe it could blind you on a failed save, or if you failed by 5 or more.

 

[MarkB]

Neat! Although I kind of wish its claws and horns attacks had something extra to go along with the damage. Nothing big, just a bit of added complexity (which would be fine on a tarrasque!).

Maybe just a 10 foot shove, Tarrasque chooses direction.

The same for the breath weapon. Maybe it could blind you on a failed save, or if you failed by 5 or more.

Play up its Siege Monster property. The ground is an object, and every square that's in its cone is taking an average of 210 points of damage. Any ordinary earth in there is probably just going to go away.

 

[Nefermandias]

It's almost like someone tried to port the 4e Tarrasque into 5e.
Neat.

 

[dave2008]

Elite? Shouldn’t it be a solo?

Oh, bloodied. I miss bloodied.

An Elite is the LevelUp version of a Mythic Monster. I imagine Mythic monsters are not OGL and Elite monsters tie into the bloodied mechanic (negate the need for a mythic monster to regain HP).

 

[dave2008]

It was a 4E reference, along with bloodied.

How new is the math? Is it the same Blog of Holding 5E MM on a Business Card that’s been out for years?

They haven't previewed the math, but the guidelines for monster creation and encounter building will be in the LevelUp Bestiary.

However, as @Corrosive mentioned, I would imagine it is based on Paul's Blog of Holding work. For whatever reason I find that (BoH) harder to follow than the DMG myself, but hopefully the explanation in the Bestiary makes more sense to me as I am converting most of my 5e monsters to LevelUp versions.