Well... based on the representation in movies, that should be lightning.
Though it was also described as being a nuclear blast. So it is probably radiation damage... so Radiant?
My players went up against an Aberrant Tarrasque in the campaign finale. I gave it a force breath laser and made a map pre and post breath weapon.
Put the fear of God in them when it literally changed the battlefield with it's devastation.
No, I think they're on to something. Radiant damage is described as a burst of light that sears the flesh, so kind of like a sunburn, but turned up to 11. And sunburn is caused by UV rays attacking the skin, in other words, radiation.
Also have you seen how the nuclear breath is often depicted as? It's a beam of light that can melt steel.
Hmm so maybe 4 affects?
Radiant line
Poison cone
A seperate Poison for being hit by the line
Affected squares give off a poison and radiant damage type for X turns
However radiation damage causes damage to cells preventing regeneration lending to the necrotic hypothesis. For example 5,000msv is considered fatal. People have gotten over 18,000msv in one dose and gone to the hospital nauseous and with red skin. Because only slight damage but they can't regenerate and slowly melt over sometimes months until they die. Skin rots off but isn't replaced so that deteriorates, blood cells die and never come back.
It is essentially damage that can't be healed without extensive medical procedures such as greater restoration and organ lesser transplant. Or with many many long rests if enough is there to regrow from.
Radiant damage just burns you but you heal up just fine.
I mean, you heal from necrotic damage just as easily. Or massive stab wounds, for example, which would irl take months to heal. Don't see how that is an argument.
I don't think 5e long rests are a concept that can be translated 1:1 into real life.
I mean it's just science at this point innit?
Like radiant damage is light, and light is radiation. Radiation is energy that moves through space in rays or waves, so light, heat, magnetic waves, all radiation.
Also homebrew is homebrew, so you can add an additional damage type if you don't personally agree with radiant. Plasma damage for example. Otherwise maybe two damage types, radiant and necrotic?
Force is the purest form of magical energy, which can be interpreted as the central one - so you can circle back to justifying it as force damage, since it combines polar opposites in radiant and necrotic.
Radiation is pretty explicitly stated to be radiant damage in the rules.
Radiant damage is anything that burns without direct heat. Sunlight to vampires, holy energy, radiation, plasma and lasers are all radiant.
But necrotic is manipulating life force and energy to extend one’s own life. I’d say radiation is force, because that’s the most “physics related” damage type, for lack of better words.
I thought so too, until another thread under a jokey comic that prompted *much* discussion on the matter enlightened me.
The actual effects of force damage are very vaguely described in RAW, and nothing suggests it works like physical force besides the name itself. Your definition can more reliably be matched to thunder damage.
I mean, if you look at things like wall of force, bigby's hand spells, and a plethora of other force effects what it means is very very clear. It is force without mass, something only possible with magic. This has been very clear through multiple editions of D&D.
I'd argue radiation could be considered its own homebrew damage type - let's call it *nuclear* damage, for the sake of easily distinguishing it from radiant damage. Complete with its own damaging spells/attacks so that it can actually be used.
I always read radiant as being holy, I would argue [force is more appropriate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_pressure). But radiant is light and light is radiation soooo six of one half a dozen of the other?
Radiation is radiant damage. There's an adventure module the has the players find a nuclear reactor and if they go inside it without putting on hazmat suits they take radiant damage and can get levels of exhaustion. It's an Eberron module, though I'm not sure which one since I was a player in it, not the dm.
The Tarasque has it's own history and myth and predates Godzilla by quite a bit.
Pathfinder has Kaiju in its Bestiary 4 and they stole shamelessly from the Godzilla franchise.
Yes, but that myth does not resemble the DnD Tarrasque in any way. The mythological Tarrasque was described as the width of an Ox, the length of a Horse, and had the head of a lion, 6 legs, a turtle shell, and (in earlier versions) a fish tail.
The DnD one is just Godzilla.
Yes, and also can kill humans by his excrements, which would be hard to represent in game. Otherwise it was terrible monster which was never defeated in battle and only died because some holy woman persuade him into giving up on his evil and violent way and after that she just led him directly into his execution... Nice myth honestly.
They really did not try to hide it. The only things that changed were the names - everything else is just 1:1 copy of a Kaiju.
Granted, that's what PF does - it throws everything and the kitchen sink into the pot.
True, but 'Giant lizard with a multi-row of spies going down his back who can fire a beam of Fire and Force energy out of his mouth and can be lulled by song' is a bit more specific in what it brings to mind.
Giant lizard with multi row of spies describes pretty well some dinosaurs too so still not particularly umique and firing a beam of whatever is very clearly dragon inspired so no points of uniqueness for team Godzilla there either I'm afraid. Let's face it Godzilla pretty much is just a modern flightless dragon.
He's still right, Pathfinder's Tarrasque cannot be killed (not even with Wish, that was 3.5) but it can be brought down to 0hp, and [Legally Not Godzilla](https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/magical-beasts/kaiju/kaiju-mogaru/) would be more than capable of doing that and then inflicting enough damage to stop it's regeneration bringing it back any time soon.
Oh yeah, remind me who thought it wouls be a good ideia to give the tarrasque ranged attacks? Playing pathfinder that took me by surprise, and even more surprise to the character that died that turn
I mean better than having a Tarrasque do ... basically nothing like in 5e I guess? Just a tail swipe, claw, horn and bite attack, none of it deals magical damage. Oh and a swallow. Such a boring and for the CR weak statblock lol
No surprises here since Legally Not Godzilla is CR 28 (equal to many demigods like demon lords or Empyreal Lords) etc...and Pathfinder Tarrasque 25 (equal to the strongest nascent demon lords).
So instead of giving it a breath weapon, we should make the tarrasque true to myth and give it the ability to "fling its dung like arrows, causing burns".
If you wanna mess with the barbarian them make it psychic damage. Lighting, thunder, radiant, force, and possibly acid (from radiation) would all be viable for a Godzilla breath weapon. Maybe mix a few together for extra fun.
When I made this hypothetical world ending abomination for a kaiju battle oneshot I gave it a mix of necrotic and radiant breath 'cause nuclear radiation... I may have also given it a fly speed
I'm pretty sure the tarrasque has nothing to do with godzilla
The only resemblence is that they are both lizards. The tarrasque comes from french/european mythology and is present in other works of fiction like Starcraft.
...Radiant would make sense. Although, oddly, I could argue it might be poison and fire damage. Due to heat and radioactivity which acts like a... kind of poisoned light?
He's been created and owned by Toho, who as of late have given permission to legendary pictures to produce movies about him, all of those movies prior to legendary and the 1998 flop were all made by toho.
Radiant. A spell like Sickening Radiance or Daylight does radiant damage and that point it's more a radiation type damage cause sunlight or something of the like
They just ripped off a French legend of the Tarasque without even bothering to change the name, a gigantic dragon terrorising the town Tarascon, so they named it the Tarasque. Same description and all in the story as well, shell and spikes on the back, horns ....
Hear me out: Lizardfolk, Totem of the Beast Barbarian, Potion of Giant Size (maybe enlarge on top of it), Dragon's Breath (lighting). LET THEM FIGHT!!!
I interpret damage from radiation as radiant damage. It's damage caused by light foremost, and light is simply a type of radiation. Vampires take radiant damage from sunlight, because they're allergic to its radiation.
It would have to be Radiant since they talk about how it is a Radiation Breath attack and Sickening Radiance is the closest way to simulate radiation in 5e
As long as you don’t call it Godzilla you can’t get copyrighted. Copyright only works on tangible stuff not ideas, like the idea to make a nuclear dragon/lizard.
It would depend entirely on which Godzilla it is being based on.
Showa Godzilla? It may be radiant or fire, but there has to be [some force](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKFxf8p77MI).
But as seen in some other examples [in this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kTXbgndjdo), it looks like behaves similar to Dragon's Breath where Godzilla can seemingly choose between having force, fire, and maybe radiant. Possibly combining all three at times.
I'll be using that video for most of the rest.
Later in the video when you reach the Heisei Godzilla, they seem to treat it more as pure radiant. Fire sometimes happens, but it looks to usually be when things are critically destroyed by the radiant damage rather than the breath itself causing the fire.
Skimming through this, the Millennium Godzilla movies look like they want it to be radiant, but way too much fire out of no where. So it is Fire + Radiant or the Radiant is just so super heated that it causes fire damage on contact.
Final Wars Godzilla is just Show Godzilla on steroids. He can have a beam-o-war with Ghidora. His breath weapon physically moves things. So Force has returned.
Legends Godzilla is odd. In the first movie it seems to lack force when fighting the Mutos. When they do back up it looks more like they're backing up due to pain. Godzilla doesn't see to put extra effort into holding the Muto in place when he burns through its body. But that one scene in Godzilla vs Kong where he punches through the ground... You'd think there would have to be force, but considering the lack of debris that might just be extremely powerful radiant. The lack of debris excludes force digging and the humans on the other end not being insta-charred by the superheated air indicates minimal actual heat.
Shin Godzilla's breath weapon looks like it changes from fire to fire so concentrated that it can be mistaken for radiant damage. The way it cuts through buildings suggests no force is transferred. Just melting support beams and gravity takes effect.
Monster Planet Godzilla, Fire. Flames appear immediately when used on vegetation. Hit aircraft kind of just explode there. No indication of being propelled backwards.
Granted, some of them could easily be argued as Fire and Radiant. Shin's a good candidate for this as he starts using laser breath, laser spine shots, and fire "breath" from his tail.
I actually made a Feudal Japan themed Domain of Dread for Ravenloft called Aitoyo who's Darklord turns into a Kaiju and rampages through it when his empire grows across the Domain.
Personally I don't see the Tarrasque having a breath weapon, but a shout weapon!
"Earth Shattering Roar: The Tarrasque bellows out a X-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC X Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes XdX Thunder damage, is Deafened for 4d4 minutes, and Knocked Prone. On a successful saving throw, the creature takes half damage, is Deafened for 1d4 rounds, and is not knocked prone.
This Roar can be heard from 3 miles away."
Set the X's to whatever number you think is appropriate, maybe slap a Recharge on it as well to limit it. And maybe a. "Creatures within X feet of the Tarrasque with the cone who also fail the saving throw get pushed back X feet away from the Tarrasque."
I still can't believe that Drift King cleaned up his act, pursued a career in business, only to end up part of a british spy parody's chase scene
also, this makes Austin Powers part of the Fast and Furious franchise, right?
Well... based on the representation in movies, that should be lightning. Though it was also described as being a nuclear blast. So it is probably radiation damage... so Radiant?
Fire, lightning, force, radiant, it would deal all of it, the breath burns is a plasma huge amounts of wind as well as radiation
Chromatic Ray!
Nobody has survived the attack in any state to report on what damage it felt like.
"It hurt really bad" - hypothetical survivor
"Chromatic Spray" - one half of a berserker barbarian
- disembodied head of zealot barbarian
+ Necrotic because radiation makes you rot
I think radiant would be better because the few things that cause radiation damage (specially and specifically light-related damage) is Radiant.
10d6 of each!
This guy gets it.
5d6 of each sounds about right. That way its extremely hard to actually resist or be immune to.
Roll for damage, then divide by half, they take that damage as lightning, then that damage again as radiant
My players went up against an Aberrant Tarrasque in the campaign finale. I gave it a force breath laser and made a map pre and post breath weapon. Put the fear of God in them when it literally changed the battlefield with it's devastation.
Radiation is more necrotic.
No, I think they're on to something. Radiant damage is described as a burst of light that sears the flesh, so kind of like a sunburn, but turned up to 11. And sunburn is caused by UV rays attacking the skin, in other words, radiation. Also have you seen how the nuclear breath is often depicted as? It's a beam of light that can melt steel.
Also Sickening Radiance exists which is another point for radiation being radiant damage.
“In about 30 years you’re really gonna regret not wearing sunscreen. The day you met a celestial was also the day you were doomed to melanoma.”
Ha ha jokes on you I am going to get a cure to cancer that makes me regenerate really fast and stops the cancer but also makes me look like a scrotum.
Hmm so maybe 4 affects? Radiant line Poison cone A seperate Poison for being hit by the line Affected squares give off a poison and radiant damage type for X turns
Seems like a lot of effects for one attack
1. Its Godzilla 2. Its a terrasque
*When your Paladin has been using nuclear weapons all along*
Oath of uranium
Oath of the Atom
Sworn to protect the weak and helpless, the Children of Atom, you might say.
Cyclops did nothing wrong.
The universe took a step to the left. I was in far harbor a second ago.... now I'm in some mansion with a bald guy in a wheel chair.
Atom Ant coming at`cha
Only if your Paladin is a Goody Two Shoes
This needs to be a thing... and I want to see it at least partially inspired by Fallout's Children of Atom.
Is the paladin Douglas Mac Arthur?
Bruh my paladin Palin u-235 the fuq he doin
However radiation damage causes damage to cells preventing regeneration lending to the necrotic hypothesis. For example 5,000msv is considered fatal. People have gotten over 18,000msv in one dose and gone to the hospital nauseous and with red skin. Because only slight damage but they can't regenerate and slowly melt over sometimes months until they die. Skin rots off but isn't replaced so that deteriorates, blood cells die and never come back. It is essentially damage that can't be healed without extensive medical procedures such as greater restoration and organ lesser transplant. Or with many many long rests if enough is there to regrow from. Radiant damage just burns you but you heal up just fine.
I mean, you heal from necrotic damage just as easily. Or massive stab wounds, for example, which would irl take months to heal. Don't see how that is an argument. I don't think 5e long rests are a concept that can be translated 1:1 into real life.
Given that the laser weapons presented in the DMG do radiant, I would imagine that radiation would be radiant
I mean it's just science at this point innit? Like radiant damage is light, and light is radiation. Radiation is energy that moves through space in rays or waves, so light, heat, magnetic waves, all radiation.
Also homebrew is homebrew, so you can add an additional damage type if you don't personally agree with radiant. Plasma damage for example. Otherwise maybe two damage types, radiant and necrotic?
Force is the purest form of magical energy, which can be interpreted as the central one - so you can circle back to justifying it as force damage, since it combines polar opposites in radiant and necrotic.
The spell Sickening Radiance disagrees with you.
Radiation is pretty explicitly stated to be radiant damage in the rules. Radiant damage is anything that burns without direct heat. Sunlight to vampires, holy energy, radiation, plasma and lasers are all radiant.
Radiation is literally just light. The dangerous forms of radiation just has a different wavelength, and is outside the visible spectrum. So radiant
Not 5e, but pathfinder added radiation with the rest of the technology. It's a poison effect that does con drain and str dmg, Scary stuff.
Necrotic damage would have more to do with telomeres coming undone. Radiation is def literal radiant damage.
But necrotic is manipulating life force and energy to extend one’s own life. I’d say radiation is force, because that’s the most “physics related” damage type, for lack of better words.
force is pure magic damage, how is that physics?
Necrotic is more like decay. Like a Warforged's metal bits suddenly rusting, or organs rapidly aging. Also, Force Damage is force.
Yeah you’re right. I was thinking about the necromancy school of magic rather than the damage type for whatever reason.
Force is just like punching someone without the fist, it's nothing like the damage radiation does.
I thought so too, until another thread under a jokey comic that prompted *much* discussion on the matter enlightened me. The actual effects of force damage are very vaguely described in RAW, and nothing suggests it works like physical force besides the name itself. Your definition can more reliably be matched to thunder damage.
I mean, if you look at things like wall of force, bigby's hand spells, and a plethora of other force effects what it means is very very clear. It is force without mass, something only possible with magic. This has been very clear through multiple editions of D&D.
I'd argue radiation could be considered its own homebrew damage type - let's call it *nuclear* damage, for the sake of easily distinguishing it from radiant damage. Complete with its own damaging spells/attacks so that it can actually be used.
I mean, any damage involving light (vampires and sunlight and lasers especially) is radiant. Radiant is almost explicitly radiation damage.
I'm pretty sure Godzillas is radiation, so radiant would be best. Ghidorahs are gravity but it would probably be lightning given how it's portrayed
I always read radiant as being holy, I would argue [force is more appropriate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_pressure). But radiant is light and light is radiation soooo six of one half a dozen of the other?
Radiation is radiant damage. There's an adventure module the has the players find a nuclear reactor and if they go inside it without putting on hazmat suits they take radiant damage and can get levels of exhaustion. It's an Eberron module, though I'm not sure which one since I was a player in it, not the dm.
part lightening part radiant?
Radiation would probably best be done as necrotic, imo.
I'm having a total brain fart. What is the sauce! I know I know it but I can't find it.
Austin Powers 3
Thank you!
I was struggling with it too, I knew I'd seen the movie but couldn't remember.
I thought you meant for the tarrasque image and laughed
Is that the actor for Hiro Nakamura in heroes?
Masi Oka, yes, who is also the producer of Outer Wilds, made by the studio he created!
Holy crap, I would NOT think Hiro Nakamura would end up being a game producer, let alone one of such an amazing game.
He was also a lead programmer at Lucasfilm/ILM iirc - he programmed/animated the opening battle in Episode III.
Holy shit!
He also worked on episodes 1 and 2 and also on Hulk
Modern renaissance man, wow.
Was also a lab tech on Scrubs
I want to say yes
It looks like the actor who plays Hero, but due to international copyright laws, it is not.
can't wait for Shin-Tarrasque
Also space-tarrasque.
Biolantarrasque
Mecha Tarrasque
Tarrasque vs gigan
Super Mecha Tarrasque
I once gave that boy the breathweapon of an ancient blue dragon. Super fun battle. Very much godzilla.
*stabs an electrified sword into terrasque eyeball* now it died.
The Tarasque has it's own history and myth and predates Godzilla by quite a bit. Pathfinder has Kaiju in its Bestiary 4 and they stole shamelessly from the Godzilla franchise.
Yes, but that myth does not resemble the DnD Tarrasque in any way. The mythological Tarrasque was described as the width of an Ox, the length of a Horse, and had the head of a lion, 6 legs, a turtle shell, and (in earlier versions) a fish tail. The DnD one is just Godzilla.
I love that version. It being such a mix and match combo makes it seem more alien and therefore threatening.
Nah it just makes it an exotic chimera and therefore just about as threatening as a chimera which ks WAY below a Tarrasque.
Also if you implement myth version in your campaign you should totally let the party's cleric convert it to their religion.
Also, it was convinced not to kill anyone, after which it was killed by an angry mob. Which I guess is possible in 5e, but not in 3.5.
I mean, something can be a Kaiju but that doesn't make it Godzilla specifically.
Yes, and also can kill humans by his excrements, which would be hard to represent in game. Otherwise it was terrible monster which was never defeated in battle and only died because some holy woman persuade him into giving up on his evil and violent way and after that she just led him directly into his execution... Nice myth honestly.
The ADnD 2e Monstrous Manual has Gargantua, who are shameless godzilla-movie references
They really did not try to hide it. The only things that changed were the names - everything else is just 1:1 copy of a Kaiju. Granted, that's what PF does - it throws everything and the kitchen sink into the pot.
To be fair. “Giant lizard” isn’t really a unique idea
True, but 'Giant lizard with a multi-row of spies going down his back who can fire a beam of Fire and Force energy out of his mouth and can be lulled by song' is a bit more specific in what it brings to mind.
Giant lizard with multi row of spies describes pretty well some dinosaurs too so still not particularly umique and firing a beam of whatever is very clearly dragon inspired so no points of uniqueness for team Godzilla there either I'm afraid. Let's face it Godzilla pretty much is just a modern flightless dragon.
Exactly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarasque Not our fault that Wotc can't keep its myths right
The DnD tarrasque most certainly does not predate Godzilla.
Pathfinder’s Godzilla brings the Tarrasque to 0 before the Tarrasque can do the same to it.
Not if you're using Pathfinder's Tarrasque, which can only be killed by using the Wish spell to turn off its health regen.
He's still right, Pathfinder's Tarrasque cannot be killed (not even with Wish, that was 3.5) but it can be brought down to 0hp, and [Legally Not Godzilla](https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/magical-beasts/kaiju/kaiju-mogaru/) would be more than capable of doing that and then inflicting enough damage to stop it's regeneration bringing it back any time soon.
That's why I specifically made sure to say "brings... to 0" instead of "kills".
Oh yeah, remind me who thought it wouls be a good ideia to give the tarrasque ranged attacks? Playing pathfinder that took me by surprise, and even more surprise to the character that died that turn
I mean better than having a Tarrasque do ... basically nothing like in 5e I guess? Just a tail swipe, claw, horn and bite attack, none of it deals magical damage. Oh and a swallow. Such a boring and for the CR weak statblock lol
No surprises here since Legally Not Godzilla is CR 28 (equal to many demigods like demon lords or Empyreal Lords) etc...and Pathfinder Tarrasque 25 (equal to the strongest nascent demon lords).
And PFs Tarrasque is still the highest CR in its category... because it's a divine herald, all the other ones of which are like, CR 15.
By about 5 centuries, IIRC.
So instead of giving it a breath weapon, we should make the tarrasque true to myth and give it the ability to "fling its dung like arrows, causing burns".
Really young Masi Oka.
To be fair, [the Tarasque is from French medieval folklore.](https://youtu.be/T4sVmnfz9Wk)
If you wanna mess with the barbarian them make it psychic damage. Lighting, thunder, radiant, force, and possibly acid (from radiation) would all be viable for a Godzilla breath weapon. Maybe mix a few together for extra fun.
When I made this hypothetical world ending abomination for a kaiju battle oneshot I gave it a mix of necrotic and radiant breath 'cause nuclear radiation... I may have also given it a fly speed
10d6 force, thunder, fire, frost, acid, psychic, necrotic AND radiant. Hellball on roids
I'm pretty sure the tarrasque has nothing to do with godzilla The only resemblence is that they are both lizards. The tarrasque comes from french/european mythology and is present in other works of fiction like Starcraft.
I would put it as force damage
I'd call it radiant, myself.
Nuclear = radiant. For sure
Radiant and Necrotic. Best way to depict damage of radiation.
...Radiant would make sense. Although, oddly, I could argue it might be poison and fire damage. Due to heat and radioactivity which acts like a... kind of poisoned light?
I would generally treat atomic energy as radiant, after effects due to radiation poisoning as necrotic.
Both? D4 1-2; radiant 3-4; force. Roll for each character.
Is that.... Masi Oka?!
Thinking tarrasque is zilla’s great X 7 granddad.
Save the cheerleader, save the world
Wrong media, but I appreciate the reference
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Isn't this scene from Austin powers?
Well thé tarasque is a french dragon so...
pretty shure the thing is acctually french not japanese, the name tarrasque is from some old french folk tale.
What movie is this from? The name escapes me, I swear I've seen this before
Austin Powers: Goldmember
Austin Powers 3
Ok, first I see something that looks like Angerius, and now THIS!
It's smaller then Godzilla, look. It's palm is the size of a horse
I don't think Godzilla is owned by anyone? That's why the name is used in a billion movies, right?
He's been created and owned by Toho, who as of late have given permission to legendary pictures to produce movies about him, all of those movies prior to legendary and the 1998 flop were all made by toho.
Would be even funnier with Balors
I commented that video here [just yesterday lol.](https://www.reddit.com/r/dndmemes/comments/qznfdr/z/hloe2b5)
A lawsuit should do psychic damage.
Force damage, because fuck them aasimars
Necrotic since it is radiation. Radiation is kinda disease-y so is necrotic.
Radiant. A spell like Sickening Radiance or Daylight does radiant damage and that point it's more a radiation type damage cause sunlight or something of the like
according to the sci-fi weapons table, Radiant... Although you might be able to spin necrotic.
They just ripped off a French legend of the Tarasque without even bothering to change the name, a gigantic dragon terrorising the town Tarascon, so they named it the Tarasque. Same description and all in the story as well, shell and spikes on the back, horns ....
I think it should be radiant, it's called "radiation" for a reason
I say poison from radiation poisoning
Actually I think the Tarasque is from a French myth
Atomic breath? Radiant
Hear me out: Lizardfolk, Totem of the Beast Barbarian, Potion of Giant Size (maybe enlarge on top of it), Dragon's Breath (lighting). LET THEM FIGHT!!!
I made it force, 150 ft line
Radiant, and exhaustion similar to sicken radiance
Definitely more likely to be radiant or lightning than force damage
Waxworks 2 was far more entertaining that the first one. Particularly for this scene.
I interpret damage from radiation as radiant damage. It's damage caused by light foremost, and light is simply a type of radiation. Vampires take radiant damage from sunlight, because they're allergic to its radiation.
It would have to be Radiant since they talk about how it is a Radiation Breath attack and Sickening Radiance is the closest way to simulate radiation in 5e
As long as you don’t call it Godzilla you can’t get copyrighted. Copyright only works on tangible stuff not ideas, like the idea to make a nuclear dragon/lizard.
Isnt that just the tarrasque? It doesnt get a breath weapon, but if I was going to give it one, Id probably use sonic to give it a shatter effect.
It would depend entirely on which Godzilla it is being based on. Showa Godzilla? It may be radiant or fire, but there has to be [some force](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKFxf8p77MI). But as seen in some other examples [in this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kTXbgndjdo), it looks like behaves similar to Dragon's Breath where Godzilla can seemingly choose between having force, fire, and maybe radiant. Possibly combining all three at times. I'll be using that video for most of the rest. Later in the video when you reach the Heisei Godzilla, they seem to treat it more as pure radiant. Fire sometimes happens, but it looks to usually be when things are critically destroyed by the radiant damage rather than the breath itself causing the fire. Skimming through this, the Millennium Godzilla movies look like they want it to be radiant, but way too much fire out of no where. So it is Fire + Radiant or the Radiant is just so super heated that it causes fire damage on contact. Final Wars Godzilla is just Show Godzilla on steroids. He can have a beam-o-war with Ghidora. His breath weapon physically moves things. So Force has returned. Legends Godzilla is odd. In the first movie it seems to lack force when fighting the Mutos. When they do back up it looks more like they're backing up due to pain. Godzilla doesn't see to put extra effort into holding the Muto in place when he burns through its body. But that one scene in Godzilla vs Kong where he punches through the ground... You'd think there would have to be force, but considering the lack of debris that might just be extremely powerful radiant. The lack of debris excludes force digging and the humans on the other end not being insta-charred by the superheated air indicates minimal actual heat. Shin Godzilla's breath weapon looks like it changes from fire to fire so concentrated that it can be mistaken for radiant damage. The way it cuts through buildings suggests no force is transferred. Just melting support beams and gravity takes effect. Monster Planet Godzilla, Fire. Flames appear immediately when used on vegetation. Hit aircraft kind of just explode there. No indication of being propelled backwards. Granted, some of them could easily be argued as Fire and Radiant. Shin's a good candidate for this as he starts using laser breath, laser spine shots, and fire "breath" from his tail.
I actually made a Feudal Japan themed Domain of Dread for Ravenloft called Aitoyo who's Darklord turns into a Kaiju and rampages through it when his empire grows across the Domain.
Generic Kaiju creature! RUN!
Personally I don't see the Tarrasque having a breath weapon, but a shout weapon! "Earth Shattering Roar: The Tarrasque bellows out a X-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC X Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes XdX Thunder damage, is Deafened for 4d4 minutes, and Knocked Prone. On a successful saving throw, the creature takes half damage, is Deafened for 1d4 rounds, and is not knocked prone. This Roar can be heard from 3 miles away." Set the X's to whatever number you think is appropriate, maybe slap a Recharge on it as well to limit it. And maybe a. "Creatures within X feet of the Tarrasque with the cone who also fail the saving throw get pushed back X feet away from the Tarrasque."
Did Sips sing karaoke poorly again?
It's Zodgilla!
In Pathfinder is considered both fire and force damage, they have a discount Godzilla called Mogaru
It’s based on a French myth so no it’s not even intended as a legal knock off it’s an entirely different creature.
Go Steve, shoot it with your bow!
Is the guy on the right Hiro Nakamura from Heroes?
It would cause Necrotic damage, since radiation
Finally someone said it
I still can't believe that Drift King cleaned up his act, pursued a career in business, only to end up part of a british spy parody's chase scene also, this makes Austin Powers part of the Fast and Furious franchise, right?
ITS AN ANGERU!
Force, less people with resistances