GreatWyrmGold
2019-04-01, 09:51 AM
This (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?519839-Funny-bits-of-canon-D-amp-D-3-5-lore/page2&p=21889658#post21889658) thread (and specifically this (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showsinglepost.php?p=21885337&postcount=71) post) got me thinking about the possibility of a setting where, rather than searching for the secret weakness of the nigh-unkillable monstrosity-of-the-week to stop its rampage, various tricks were used to incapacitate them and then make use of their unconscious bodies. I thought I'd start a thread where we can brainstorm potential uses of D&D's printed terrors could be made profitable.
(For the purposes of this thread, we can ignore how we intend to incapacitate them, unless specific bindings are required for the business model. Shivering touch, allips, inject them with doses of spider eater venom until they roll a 1...the possibilities are endless, something's gonna work eventually.)
The linked post mentions that Dalmosh, a giant abomination who can be summoned with 10,000 gp of food or drink, could be used as a freight service. Find some psions who can use minor creation to basically summon giant bottles of wine, summon Dalmosh to wherever you are, load some cargo on him, and wait for the next station's psions to repeat the process. It's like a cargo ship, but faster, and fueled with wine.
And let's get the obvious one out of the way: If you can find tools to get past the Tarrasque damage reduction and whatnot, its regeneration is friggin' lucrative. Its hide is tougher than dragonhide, its carapace reflects magic, and its flesh...is presumably edible, at least. I wouldn't be surprised if some of its internal organs were valuable magical reagents, too, though I wouldn't want to be in charge of "mining" into a mountain which constantly regenerated anything I cut away...
Any other ideas?
(For the purposes of this thread, we can ignore how we intend to incapacitate them, unless specific bindings are required for the business model. Shivering touch, allips, inject them with doses of spider eater venom until they roll a 1...the possibilities are endless, something's gonna work eventually.)
The linked post mentions that Dalmosh, a giant abomination who can be summoned with 10,000 gp of food or drink, could be used as a freight service. Find some psions who can use minor creation to basically summon giant bottles of wine, summon Dalmosh to wherever you are, load some cargo on him, and wait for the next station's psions to repeat the process. It's like a cargo ship, but faster, and fueled with wine.
And let's get the obvious one out of the way: If you can find tools to get past the Tarrasque damage reduction and whatnot, its regeneration is friggin' lucrative. Its hide is tougher than dragonhide, its carapace reflects magic, and its flesh...is presumably edible, at least. I wouldn't be surprised if some of its internal organs were valuable magical reagents, too, though I wouldn't want to be in charge of "mining" into a mountain which constantly regenerated anything I cut away...
Any other ideas?