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The Monster Manual says that bulette young have never been spotted.
It also says that there is only one tarrasque at any given point in time.
So, headcanon: bulettes are the young of the tarrasque. The reason most of them remain juvenile is to avoid overcrowding, with one tarrasque per planet being the max capacity. They're parthenogenic, like New Mexico whiptail lizards, so mama tarrasque creates more and more little bulette clones of herself all the time, the strongest of which becomes the new breeding tarrasque when the old one dies.
Possibly the tarrasque was a crossbreed between two other monsters, or maybe it was the result of a horrific wizard experiment.
It also says that there is only one tarrasque at any given point in time.
So, headcanon: bulettes are the young of the tarrasque. The reason most of them remain juvenile is to avoid overcrowding, with one tarrasque per planet being the max capacity. They're parthenogenic, like New Mexico whiptail lizards, so mama tarrasque creates more and more little bulette clones of herself all the time, the strongest of which becomes the new breeding tarrasque when the old one dies.
Possibly the tarrasque was a crossbreed between two other monsters, or maybe it was the result of a horrific wizard experiment.
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I read a thing years ago in which someone was trying to explain the (I assumed) obvious stance of why "and then your character gets hit with a mace" is fine in D&D, but "and then your character gets groped" is really dicey at best, and the way they tried to frame it was "roleplaying violence is not inherently violent, but roleplaying sexual violence is inherently sexual" which... bothered me.
I dislike the idea that sexual violence is a totally different thing from physical violence. In the end, I think it boils down to something more simple: consent.
See, if you're joining D&D, which is pretty open about the fact that it's a combat game, you know (hopefully) that there's going to be fake violence, and you're assumed to have consented to this, the same way you're assumed to have consented to seeing simulated violence when you show up to an action movie or boxing match. Meanwhile, there's nothing in D&D that specifically makes it a sexual assault simulator, so you can't assume that someone who showed up with a barbarian character sheet is okay with depictions of rape.
(Yeah, there are people who get talked into D&D when they don't want to play, but the problem there isn't the game, it's that your friends are jerks who don't take no for an answer.)
I dislike the idea that sexual violence is a totally different thing from physical violence. In the end, I think it boils down to something more simple: consent.
See, if you're joining D&D, which is pretty open about the fact that it's a combat game, you know (hopefully) that there's going to be fake violence, and you're assumed to have consented to this, the same way you're assumed to have consented to seeing simulated violence when you show up to an action movie or boxing match. Meanwhile, there's nothing in D&D that specifically makes it a sexual assault simulator, so you can't assume that someone who showed up with a barbarian character sheet is okay with depictions of rape.
(Yeah, there are people who get talked into D&D when they don't want to play, but the problem there isn't the game, it's that your friends are jerks who don't take no for an answer.)
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Due to circumstances beyond my control (read: the dice gods have a strange sense of humor), the party member with the most hit points at level 3 is the ranger's tiny, angry badger companion.
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...apparently a lot of people have taken up knitting and woodworking during this stay-at-home period.
I'm not surprised, but it's mighty annoying to not be able to get our usual materials.
I'm not surprised, but it's mighty annoying to not be able to get our usual materials.
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