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2021-06-02, 06:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
Since Xykon's secret weapon is always in shadows, I have no clue what is actually is. If anyone else knows, please explain what it is.
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2021-06-02, 06:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
Well, unless you're into guessing the possibilities, I'm afraid you'll just have to wait with the rest of us.
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2021-06-02, 10:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
He's a good man
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2021-06-03, 12:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
Most agree that he's a Tarrasque.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/tarrasque
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2021-06-03, 12:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
Not sure whether you are serious, but the MitD evidence and guessing thread is pretty sure that he is not a Tarrasque.
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2021-06-03, 02:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
Not sure where I saw this... do I remember correctly that someone came up with a decent theory that he's some legendary monster with an incredibly foul smell, fitting the
?Spoiler: Start of Darkness paid contentcomments about his smell, plus vomiting/disgust from the crowd
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2021-06-03, 02:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2021-06-03, 02:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
ungelic is us
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2021-06-03, 04:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-06-03, 04:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-06-03, 04:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
lol. you are welcome to have mine. lol
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2021-06-03, 05:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
Mine too. Being sigged is like an injection of serotonin.
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2021-06-03, 07:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-06-03, 08:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
Among whom?
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2021-06-03, 09:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-06-03, 10:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-06-04, 01:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
Ah now you've switched questions.
WHO, is easy. He's a good person.
WHAT is an all together trickier question, though we've been given many hints."Besides, you know the saying: Kill one, and you are a murderer. Kill millions, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god." -- Fishman
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2021-06-04, 09:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
The most popular guess by far (which I happen to agree with) is that he is a protean, but the jury is far from in and the protean is far from perfect (most important to me is the fact that it, like almost every other species offered, doesnt have the best explanation for how he teleported O-Chul).
While for a time the Tarrasque was even more popular than the protean it is not so popular now because it has a lot of flaws. Its main advantages are that its eating and sleeping patterns match and, if you want a D&D famous creature, it is one. Unfortunately just about every other metric it doesnt work, its too big, too weak, and has no magic ability or knowledge.Arrrgh, here be me extended sig!
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2021-06-04, 11:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
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2021-06-04, 01:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
Crusher has been tracking people's guesses about what the MitD is for years now. There's currently 101 different guesses in that post, and literally none of them are the tarrasque. It's possible that there are some people who support the tarrasque who haven't submitted their guess for whatever reason, but I'm skeptical that there's enough of them for your statement to be true.
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2021-06-04, 01:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-06-04, 02:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
I think this might be one of those things where the forum isn't necessarily representative. I imagine there's plenty of people out there who know enough about D&D to know what a tarrasque is, but not enough to realize in which ways it doesn't fit. And many of them will be OotS fans, but not know it as well as a message board does, collectively.
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2021-06-04, 03:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-06-04, 03:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2021-06-04, 03:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
I see, sorry for being snarky. I wasn't sure if you were referring to this forum or off-site communities such as TVTropes.
If you're talking about very old discussions, then I don't remember either, but we have a lot more clues and information now than we had back then, so I wouldn't be surprised if most of the old participants, if they have continued to follow OotS and the forum at all, have different opinions now.
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2021-06-04, 04:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
I haven't kept careful count, obviously, but as someone who has frequented to forums for quite some time, but *not* participated in the guessing thread, I would say that tarrasque is the most frequent answer that I have come across, so that may indicate something, I guess. lol
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2021-06-04, 05:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
The Protean is currently the leader in the guessing thread. (With good reason, in my opinion. )
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2021-06-04, 05:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-06-04, 08:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
Is this going to be a thread that has the OP question answered within 5 posts and then proceeds to be a 10 page long discussion about tangentially related topics?
Overall the Tarrasque has nothing going for it but raw power; it lacks any escape scene abilities, is not part of a species, and is far too big for the umbrella.
It basically shows that the Tarrasque is more on the minds of people than that it is relevant to MitD.An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
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2021-06-04, 08:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Does anybody know who Xykon's secret weapon is?
The Tarrasque tends to be the first snap "i kind of know D&D and its the iconic big dumb D&D monster" guess a lot of people have without giving it much thought. To that end, i wouldnt be surprised if its the "most popular" in the sense that its the most common answer you get among people who dont really care one way or another.
Among people who actually give it some thought, its one of the weaker candidates. Among other reasons already mentioned, any creature identified with a singular article (ie "the" tarrasque) is unlikely to be "one of them" or have parents.Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.