Who's on top of the fantasy food-chain?

[Frostmarrow]

A lot of the monsters in MM eat people but people don't eat monsters. Apart from the occasional deranged dwarf that mixes goblin blood and honey for a ritual snack. This means that humans, and the rest of those tag-along little runts, aren't on top of the food chain. What creature is? I was thinking dragons but then again they eat rocks, don't they?

 

[Thorntangle]

Planar or non-planar?

Monstrous gods/demi-gods might dabble in the food chain every now and then.

 

[Frostmarrow]

I don't think gods need to eat. If they do it's just for the pleasure of it. The same goes for outsiders, or am I completely wrong here?

 

[BiggusGeekus@Work]

Flumphs.

OK, seriously? I'd go with undead, because they don't need to eat or Otyughs because they can eat just about everything.

And once you start figuring out the caloric needs of a dragon, you realize that your best bet is shrugging your sholders and saying "magical metabolism, leave me alone."

 

[Frostmarrow]

Any creature that doesn't eat is not part of the food-chain. So undead, for example, can't be on top of it.

 

[Thorntangle]

It would probably still be humanoids depending on your criteria. Collectively, humanoids still probably consume the most biomass, even in a fantasy world.

 

[Voadam]

Killer of the Gods 1e DDG Chinese mythos.

 

[Voadam]

Thorntangle, I don't think how much volume each species consumes defines top of the food chain. Cows and water buffalo are constantly eating and eating vast amounts of plant matter. The things that prey on them are usually smaller predators (wolves, lions etc.) who are vastly outnumbered by their prey (as all predators must be) and they generally have to share (pack mammals) or not eat that often (reptiles).

I think this is killed and eaten by that, so this is lower on the food chain than that is a better definition.

Plus disease and decomposers sort of screw up these analyses. (this bacteria decomposes humans, they are above us on the food chain!)

 

[JacktheRabbit]

Dragons would be at the top of the food chain since they consume everything and nothing in return really considers dragons to be a food source.

The other option is the Tarrasque.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I would have to say dragons, man would be second but moving up as he takes out dragons one by one.